Poetry What is it, Don't be confused

Mostly, I'm an emotional writer. Even though I write about things I haven't experienced, most of my writes are emotional. I write from both of the spectums: light and whimsical to dark and gut wrenching. I don't even know if what I write is considered poetry. Maybe it's prose. Sometimes, I get the two confused.

Because I write for my own enjoyment, which I'm sure we all do, I find little comfort in my ability to have a famouse critic like my writing.

I have had alot of people on this site say that I am gifted, but at what? Writing poetry or prose? Which would be more apt to get published? Who knows.

Which ever you write, whether poetry or prose, doesn't really matter if you enjoy doing it. The question of whether you write litary or emotional, I guess,as I said before, I write emotional.

Happiness
Jeannie

I have sat in front of this keyboard, and attempted to teleport a fraction of my soul on many occasions. I have sat in front of this screen and attempted to know someone by the order that they pressed the keys on the keyboard that they sit in front of. I have no PhD or any degree in literature, yet even my harshest critics seem to believe they know who I am. We cannot assume that everyone that posts on this site has dreams of becoming literary figures. Most of us have a need to feel connected to the world. The literary world seems to hold the keys to which poet becomes famous. If we could compare the literary world to a kingdom would we choose to get there by force, or compliance?

a agree with you, Michael D Nalley
very well said......thank you

I'm more of an emotional writer even when it comes to writing short fiction as well. There is so much that I wish I could tell people and yet the only true way I have discovered is through words.

I heard before that my poems are well written but I'd much rather know if they emotions carried over.

I disagree with you Bob Shanks. I feel that there is only one way to write poetry..., melting your expressiosn and feeling, in words. Expression or a Feeling is definitely the soul of a poem but the concept, thought process and vision in which you go through these emotions so that they end up in beautifully moulded words that thread into the laguage pattern is what makes a poem. Of course vocabulary, punctuation,language, rhyming, etc.. also matters. But if you just write emotionally, I do not think of it as a poem but rather as just a writing to gain sympathy or to heal yourself. If you just write literally it alwsy ends up being a dry run no matter what talent you have with your vocabulary and rhyming.