every time I pick up a pen,
I expect words to flow,
just like when I was younger,
and hadn't yet expressed
all of my emotions...
I don't want to believe, that they,
along with thoughts and point of views,
just stay the same...
I call myself a poet,
yet, I've written the same poem
a hundred times, using different synonyms
and more risqué metaphors...
I pretend that every word I write
is me...
but when I live each day,
I'm not but a shadow
of the world around me...
it doesn't really matter if I try
to preach morality,
or try to explain/justify parts of life
with ink and an old notebook...
what really matters is the ability
to open up and share, all that
you have to share with the needy world...
I was always taught to share...
and I've a desire to walk with a megaphone...
the only problem is,
my fear of turning it on
has plagued me, ever since
my eyes have been open...
I can divulge to an unseen audience,
but when it really matters...
I'm nothing but a coward
Please tell me what you think
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"but when it really matters...
I'm nothing but a coward" ending is strong. i dont much think i go for some of the lines but the main idea is true. dont worry we all have our faults. you wont be a coward for long.
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Every man in the history of earth has been a coward, and because one is able to admit it makes one braver than most. I applaud you for being so candid and honest about yourself here.
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I think feeling like a coward some times just proves were human, that were not fear less. And I know how it feels to feel like your writing the same things again and again, but like you said the important thing is that your able to open up, to show the world. Poetry to me is the silent megaphone, and to me by writing this and sharing it with who knows how many people on AP I believe thats just as good as walking around with a megaphone, if not harder and braver cause poetry is more often then not your most personal of thoughts.
Great write,
Jaden
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if i lived in a city, i'd be fine... but i live in south mississippi.... home of ignorance and complete bigotry... the only place i have to share my most personal of thoughts is through the internet
it sucks feeling like you have to hide who you are from the people you are surrounded by, though.... and sometimes it really gets to me, makes me feel like i'm not doing what i SHOULD be doing... i wish i could teach open-mindedness and such to my peers, but truthfully it'd just backfire terribly
i can post my most intimate of writings to an audience unknown, but if my very best friend asked me to read them something i've written, i'd cower behind excuses and lies
anyways, thanks for the comment = ]
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Oops! I forgot to applaud. (Grins sheepishly)
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This poem is quite good
I think we all feel like cowards at times. Hell, I know I do. But a poet can share the thoughts within themselves, but they can also take on other personas as well.
I love doing persona poems where I step into the shoes of someone else and write what I imagine they are feeling. Because poetry is like that...you can explain yourself, or explain someone else, or explain the cosmos and it is still poetry and if you are feeling it then you are doing the world a favor with your song.
Do not worry about being a coward. We are all cowards at times. But being willing to share yourself here is a start.
I'll quote W. H. Auden (one of my favorite poets) writing about William Butler Yeats (yet another of my favorite poets)
" Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice;
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise"
Write on, poet. -
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"Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye."
i have never read Auden's work... in fact, i rarely read poetry at all... besides the selected works throughout high school and the english courses i took during my 2 years at junior college... but i must admit i am reading/enjoying many of his works right now
many thank yous
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"and I've a desire to walk with a megaphone...
the only problem is,
my fear of turning it on
has plagued me, ever since
my eyes have been open..."
you're walking with a megaphone with every poem you submit, we may be an unseen audience, but we're as real as the people you face in your life
a coward is never so honest, you need to have more faith in yourself, you know, it is the hardest thing in the world for some people to be so honest to the millions of people online like you are doing here, so it baffles me as to how you have a hard time opening up to the people around you
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