Discover your gift of poetry…

I believe there is a poet in all of us. Yet, we have this critic within us as well, not to mention all the critics out there, who can not allow us our poetic bliss. I believe that any form of expression is poetry. For me, it is tapping into my source- and when I’m tapped in, there is an effortless flow of rhythm and rhyme. The flow is interrupted when I try to direct it. I can not be dishonest in a poem. I say what needs to be said, and quite often, the greeting card rhyme softens the blow. Yet the truth is usually enlightening, uplifting, and joyous. It is difficult to leave a poem in a quandry, my pen must keep moving toward the solution. Most poems are of appreciation, celebration, and kind regards.

Well, that’s all fine and good, for me, a poet, but what about you? You are also a poet, you simply have not acknowledged this yet. Want to find out? Just write. Spill it with ink onto paper or fingertips on the key board. Tell your critic to take some time off and express yourself. The only preparation is to get quiet for just a moment, tap into what your heart wants to express and let it flow. Don’t worry about form, don’t worry about rhyme, forget all the things you ever knew about poetry (I do). Let it flow.

Now read it, noticing the places where you may have paused to “think” about what you were writing, rather than letting in flow. These will be the spots where your reading will “come up short”, hesitate, feel abrupt. Now, paying attention to what you have said rather than how you said it- do you feel satisfied with what has been expressed?

Your choice from here is easy. Either continue to write, until you have a flow that feels comfortable and easy, or just go to www.personalizedpoems.org , copy what you have written in to the order page and buy a poem with the content that you created. Either way, you are a poet. Author or co-author, you still wrote the work.

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