poetry and me | #amwriting

previously published on my Halcja's Place blog

Turns out I'm better at writing poetry in English than in my native language.

Yesterday I was reading Marina Tsvetaeva. Thinking about how poetry can be like a diary. It can document your life. Whenever something happens or fails to happen in your life, you can express it in a poem.

It's different than writing short stories because poetry mirrors your thoughts directly. It channels your feelings with metaphors.

It's like a stream of consciousness. You write it on the spur of the moment when you get so overwhelmed with emotions that you have to get them out on paper.

And it's beautiful.