Poetry is everywhere!

Poetry is one of the ultimate forms of expression. I enjoy writing poems because I get to be creative, spontaneous, and mysterious. I also have a chance to forage through my deepest thoughts, my dreams and nightmares and my sub-consciousness. In one sense poetry is a stew of words, and feelings; it is a reflection of our physical worlds, the facades we put up, our fears and triumphs, our desires, fantasies, and tragedies.

However, poetry is not restricted to a sonnet or a love poem or a bunch of rhyming couplets; poetry is everything around us: it is music, lyrics, it is the humming of a car engine, it is a cook that chops up vegetables in a kitchen; it’s a wrongly convicted person trying to clear his name; it is a single mother trying to make ends meet; it’s a janitor cleaning out bathroom stalls; it’s an entrepreneur making a new business; it’s a bear eating a salmon; it’s a fight between two men vying for the attention of an uninterested woman. Poetry is all around us.

Poetry is what we do and how we express ourselves. Writing a poem is one facet of poetry. Poetry should not be restricted to the act of writing but should be released like a butterfly and be allowed to be interpreted in the way an ‘artist’ (all of us) sees fit!