Every Body Can Write Poems

張貼日期：Oct 17, 2010 8:13:46 AM

Every Body Can Write Poems

Neil Yang

     Writing poems is not that serious. It’s not for us to win some brilliant glory. And it’s not a monopoly, either. In fine, every body can write poems.

     Writing poems is like dreaming. In daily lives, we have excitement, happiness, sorrow, controversies with others, dissatisfaction, or anticipation, that steadily pour into our subconsciousnesses as water into dam. Thus, at the dam has got to drain off surplus water sometimes, we have to let go our tense emotions in dream, irregularly. The same, we write poems because we need to reveal feelings. Poems, with concise and dense language, provide us a large free space for imagination and a more direct way of digging into our subconsciousnesses and making them naked. Consequently, we can disclose our feelings in a primary form, in which subconsciousness exists, through poems, and gain great relief.

     On the other hand, writing poems is like playing. We participate the game of imagining, creating by the rules of our own. Through writing poems, we learn more things and become more aware of ourselves, besides enjoying the fun of the literary game. It’s a good way to learn from playing.

     So writing poems is not absolutely a solemn business or a big career. Every body dreams. Every body can play. And we all can write poems. Although most of our poems are bad poems, yet bad poems come before beautiful ones. As in a game, after getting familiar with the rules and skills, we would become nice players. And we can say that writing a piece of bad poem is better than reading a nice one, for we do taste the real inner part of our own mind, and grow more experienced. So we can assure that the more poems we try to write, the more wonderful poems would be born in this world.