A bit about you

(I'll change questions and general conversation every couple of days)
What pushes you to write poetry? and how does it help?

My depression and dad motivate me to write. my dad.. he just doesn't seem to care for me, he'll push me so hard to be something i'm not, and when i get mad at him he'll try to buy my love back, it drives me completely insane. and nothing ever seems to go right for me so i get really depressed and let it all out in a poem or form of writing, i have some short stories as well as poems.

Wow Bob I did the same while reading glad to know I am not the only one who uses a world of reading and writing as a different place in time. Writing helps me bring out the best of who I am inside. I had alot of anomosity towards my father from the abuse and rape he put my mother through, writing it out helps alot.

Well, nothing really pushes me to write poetry, but i would have to say also my father is a motivation to me but not in a good way. I push my self to my all time limits for EVERYTHING including poetry because i pray to God i am NOTHING like him, another thing is when people doubt me, my mind, my capability. It's almost a stress releiver for me, but in a sense a life saver because poetry is something that helps me release emotion i just can't seem to show, in alot of my poems i cry when i write them, because i am haunted with horrible memories, or i find best i write when i am awaken by a nightmare. Many people do not understand my poetry but i seem to conceal each and every word into something more then just poetry its my world, its what i live for is to write, i honestly don't know if i could call myself the person i am today if i never wrote my first poem when i was 8....well it was nice to get to know some of you and take care.
scooby

Thank you all for shareing some of your mitives. i'll change the question later on today or tomorrow. but scooby i do see were your coming from with that, no one understands my poem "Desert Of Sand" because they read the words my don't try to understand them. i often times have to explain what it means -_-' and i can see that i'm not the only poet with a bit of hate towards their dad.

Nothing really pushes me but EVERY night is when i think of everything thats up with me. Sometimes it all rhymes then i try to continue it rhyming and thats when i get my best poems. Then i get up and write it down and i also think of things to say to people cuz i think of really good stuff to say then i forget when i'm talking to them!

Well, i dont hold hate towards him (my dad) i hold disappointment, i will now and always. It sucks ass when all you want it a father and he can't even do that. None the less he is my dad yah i know, but i wish he wasn't. Dad is not just a title to be thrown around, it is a privalege to be called that, and only mean it. I still call my dad by his first name. hate is such a strong word but i would be lying if i said sometimes i don't feel that way....anyways.
take care
scooby

Thank you all for participating

NEW QUESTION

What are you most proud of in your life?

What am i most proud of in my life....HMMMMMMMM i would have to say, turning my life around in a 180. I went from wild child to book worm...figure that one out...lol i am proud of learning VERY HARD LESSONS because they seem to have made myself more knowledgable about the things i want in my life....also graduating this year. a year early then i am supose to, i guess you can say i skipped a grade but i just did 2 yrs in 1.
Looking at the things i did a few yrs ago, it was just pointless and stupid, but then again they are the things that helped me acheive my dreams

aww thats so sweet bob! ^_^ and scooby, thats really great! i'm stuck somewere between party animal and depressed with a dash of elegance and a tiny hint of humore. mix all that together to get me, lol. i'm most proud of my ability to understand... and it seems like i always leave a little mark were ever i go Quote from admire-er "Theres no one in the world with a personalaty like yours.. theres just nothing about you that someone could hate" un-quote... ...
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...that was the nicest thing anyone had ever said to me...

awww, that is something really nice to say...