Who or what inspires your poetry?

well, for friendship, my best friend over internet. He's so amazing! For love, erm.... my circumstances that I'm living in the moment. For sadness, everything that's around me. Nearly everything I writte is about everything I see in My surroundings.

I am inspired by the woman I love, by what goes on around me, by life in general, by the darkness that I once walked in and the light I have found. I write what I feel and to cleanse my soul.

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JPM craks me up

Nature inspires me, strangers may inspire me, I inspire myself sometimes...

But mostly love...be it lost love or gained love...

my own trials inspire me, words that strike a cord in me, songs, other people's pain or happiness. when the moment strikes i go with it.

Love, nature, and depressing moments mostly.

Beauty, Love, and My Amorous Disposition/Nature as well as my love for the fairer sex!!!

Well, it all depends on which of my poems you are talkin about... because my poems are each inspired by whoever they are about... I write about real life... so... the people they are about are the ones that have inspired me (in good or bad ways) to write about them.
~BJ~

I never wrote poetry before. I actually failed it in high school. A beautiful woman entered my life and changed me and the way I felt about love. Whatever she did, the words started flowing. I love this site because it gives me the opportunity to express what I feel in my heart and put those feelings into words.

the bad things that happen to me or others around me. or sometimes scary dreams i have. i can never write positive poems lol.

everything that happens in my life influeneces me to write poetry.
i write so much, cos i feel so much emotion and i'm like a closed book, i don't tell anyone anything.
my feelings and thoughts are usually the main thoughts andideas that are put forward through my writing and not everything has happened to me, but most of the time it's happened to someone close.
take care xx

life and its circumstances

i am inspired by everything i see, i am inspired by the way the world works, the feelings we have as human beings, from sadness to happiness, our experiences in life

My feelings inspire my poetry.

Watching people really inspires my poetry. I put myself in their shoes.

Also, as odd as this may sound, I write better poetry while I am smoking a cigarette.

I'll probably never know why, either.

--Christa

practically anything

my depression inspires my poetry...but emo music helps a lil bit...

~*Who Cares?*~

Well.... life inspires my poetry. When I feel in love, I write a love poem. When I feel heartbroken, I write a heartbroken poem. Same goes for happiness, depression, etc.

I'm Inspired By Anything: My Own Emotions, What My Friends Are Going Through, The People I Love, Songs, Movie Plots, Certain Quotes In A Book, Other People's Poems.. As Long As It's Not Forced Out And You Can Just Sit There And The Poem Flows Out Naturally, I Think Those Are The Best Written Poems.

*C i e r m a e* ,, ♥

I am inspired by my friends, what they go through,what i have gone through,books,music,some stuff in the news and media,my depressions,my friends' depression,love,hate,angry,sorrow,u name it and most likely it inspired me.

my ex bf inspires me..everything we've done and been thru.

I get inspired by everything that happends to me and around me.

Leonardo De Vinci and everything else

just how the world works and why sometimes. or overcoming a personal struggle. sometimes i write to hope to change someone's life someday, to give people hope and beauty within words. it's a great way to express my thoughts.

~Jacklyn

I would have to say the main person, in which made me start to like writing poetry is my Grandpa. Although, my poetry is mostly attributed to my family, friends, and myself. It's about life in general though. So; I'd have to say life in general. Although, again, my Grandpa has inspired me to write as an outlet, instead of hurting myself.

Michelle

Undoubtedly its the twisted side of life for me. The life that appeals to me is full of death, despair, discontent, hate, and sorrow. Such a life is the life that inspires the hell fires of my writings. Unfortunitly though, I cannot place them here.

My poems are mostly about one of my best friends, who I secretly love. Other poems are inspired by life in general or my friends.

Lots of stuff inspire me, like love, nature, what the world would be like without evilness, just about anything really, but mostly secret love, like a girl I secretly love or me wanting to rid the world of evilness.

i think my feelings inspire me one of the most, i write about how I feel.
Also i think my friends inspire me because i write many poems about them and who they are, so really they inspire me a great deal.

I think my feels inspire me as well, i write a lot about how i feel!!! But also i just get a random idea sometimes to just write about something so i do but if anything really does inspire me it would be people and they way we act towards one another and how one person tends to feel when they get hurt in during the time.....so i write about things i KNOW i can relate to, which would be feelings!!!
~Michelle~

music, nature, and me.

what inspires me is my girlfriends death..my golas..fantaises dreams desires wants..all of it is my key..i use it for everyday situations..helps me get by..knowing shes waiting for me..knowing i can have them all come true..check them out will you not:)

what inspires me is my life, and evrything in it. all my friends my family things in general.

The girl I lust/am in love with/have a crush on/fancy mainly for love poems

Also for ones other from love its bad stuff in the world or nature or the meaning of life or dreams. Also music, like rock such as creed or rap such as eminem or 2Pac.

there are some people that after you are around them you just write, it's not always like the poems are about them but they are the inspiration and they seem to put words into your mind, i have just met somone like that.
also i have written a lot of love poems they are easily inspired.

sammi