This is a sad and beautiful poem, @letalis-laetitia. I'm not sure where my comment went, as I'm sure I wrote this the other day, but creative writing and poetry are wonderful ways to process loss.
This is a sad and beautiful poem, @letalis-laetitia. I'm not sure where my comment went, as I'm sure I wrote this the other day, but creative writing and poetry are wonderful ways to process loss.
Thank you, I did see a comment from you before the bank holiday weekend but i'm not sure where it's gone either. I suspect there is a comment vanishing creature on hive rather akin to the one in the sock drawer ;)
You gave me the permission I needed to post something like this, I also thought i'd left you a reply on an inkwell post that the sock monster ate lol. I'm not good at being open about my feelings, and tend to paraphrase and use a lot of euphemisms, but it can lead to absolutely horrible misunderstandings. I wrote this following reading someones post about reconnecting with their brother, and was just hit with the thought of my own and the desire to do that myself, then overwhelming sadness. I wasn't going to do anything with this, overtype it or maybe pick at it, finding fault until I was more annoyed at myself than anything else, but i thought about what you said, about it not being a bad thing and posted it before I could change my mind. Yeah I think especially for introspective processing, it can be really helpful to people. I have a really strong aversion to the popular concept of therapy poetry, and it's portrayal in popular culture, I am so used to things like "therapeutic"/"processing emotion through" writing and poetry being a paraphrase for rubbish/self-indulgent/over dramatic/not real poetry - you know the whole trope but i'm glad I got past it enough for this :)
I think creating art out of disaster is a great way to help it become something more than pain. I wasn’t aware of therapy poetry, though!
I'm probably using the wrong word, it's so steeped in pop culture, especially American TV, it must be something you've come across before. Its normally teens sent to therapy or rehab, or struggling with loss, and they write poetry to help with the healing process. Someones diary is found or their note book snatched and then other people find the poetry, and it gets ridiculed by their peers as really bad. I did study counseling, and expression through poetry was one of the tools they encouraged the use of to help people open up and process their feelings, I probably started seeing them as two different things then. Its hard to balance peoples expectations in terms of acceptable standards for poetry and writing for me. I have managed to move away from thinking like that with stories, but I really struggle with the poetry.