Why do you write poetry?
Over the years I have observed that different people write poetry for different reasons. Some write to hide their fears and some write poetry to express their feelings and ideas.
I have always been interested in why people write poetry. I have asked a few people and the answers are always different.
Why do you write poetry?
Well, let me ask this question to myself first. I write poetry because I feel like writing, I think that by expressing my thoughts in the verse form helps me stay focus and follow my dreams.
Most of my poems are about life, death, good and bad. So when I write about it, it keeps me stay focused and I always know what things I have to avoid in my life and the kind of things I need to do.
And over the last three decades of my life on this planet, I have always tried to stay humble, kind, forgiving and happy.
No matter what happens, I will keep on writing poetry, and I will remain the same old me.
I like to think of the Greek word "poiesis" when Im asked why I write poetry.
I consider myself a poet of space and matter and substance and so Im interested in how common place things can tell stories or recall memories. I dont want to talk about the grass; I want to talk about the feet which have trod over it, the energy that rains down upon it, and the small creatures which are born and die within it.
I write poetry because I want a better world. I write so that the connections between all things might be better seen and understood. I write for the things that are incapable of speaking directly to us. I write so that humans may someday become something new, something more poetic.