What is poetry?
Outpourings of emotions
Or is it something else?
Can you solve this mystery?
Writers are funny beings
I don’t mean jolly, jovial
In their heads some things,
feel wrong and abnormal
They are doomed either way
If they share what they feel,
people have a lot to say
Life of a hamster’s wheel.
Creativity is a complex word
with it’s many nuances
Imagination I’ve heard,
Is reality on its haunches.
Goings on in a writer’s mind
A thoroughfare of thoughts
Shibuya crossing of a kind
Thick Blood in thin veins clot.
If they share they are called out
If they don’t they are belittled
If they agree people doubt
If they don’t their views skittled.
Conjuring things out of thin air
A magician’s fete extraordinaire
Comparing them to writers, unfair
Making them fall into despair
Writers prose and poetry write
Penning down their creations
Uncaring of wrong or right.
Unmindful of expectations
by Sulekha
I guess all creative people are magicians… they create something out of nothing a magicians of words .
I do agree, we are in our heads sometimes… atleast I am
You’ve captured what it means to be a writer so perfectly, Sulekha. One has to develop a don’t care attitude to write and share their prose and poetry. It is not easy.
So many lines from your poem stand out Sulekha, ‘thoroughfare of thoughts’ is such an apt description.