POETRYPoetry is something so easy to read, yet so hard to understand.
Ultimately, the goal of poetry is to touch people’s heart. The goal for poets is to release certain feelings, whether it is frustration, anger, sadness or happiness.
Poets write what poets feel at a certain moment. They write whatever their heart tells them to write. It can be something they self don’t always agree with, but what matters is that it comes from the heart. A poet is in need to spill out whatever his heart is saying. As I already wrote a couple of months ago, the heart is totally not rational and that is exactly why poetry can be so beautiful. Poetry speaks irrational words, it speaks in the language called feelings.
With reading poetry, it doesn’t really matter what the background of the poet is, what the poet has been through or how old the poet is. With poetry, what matters is, how it touches the reader. What matters is, the message it brings.
A poem, a good poem, won’t lose its worth, because it stays in the heart of the reader and more important, in the heart of the poet. Even though the mind of the poet may change later, the words stay the same and so does the worth of the poem.
How old a poet is, how much a poet experienced, the background of a poet is not what makes a poem beautiful. A poet writes and does what the heart tells to write or do and that’s what makes poetry beautiful.
March 10th 2004
