#168 Creating Poetry

You can say things that sound awful smart. I know you can, because you are smart.

But all of us get scared and fearful if someone looks at us too closely.

The issue is, everything we write can sounds dumb

If it's analysed, repeated, turned over and stared at long enough

You'll pour your heart into something

You''ll create meaning you find profound

Yet still, after a long enough time

You'll see your heart crumble from certainty

Honestly, it's no wonder people are scared

Scared of sharing anything they write

We often are when our hearts are on the line

Because, nine times out of ten, we have slaved

We have worked hard, struggled so

Analysed re-analysed our work

Until, eventually, at around the time you've poured more of your life into a piece than you're publicly willing to admit

That's when your work can seem to cease to mean anything at all

Nearly all art is illusion

Creativity comes from a source

As the artist, you alone know the trail

The map will seem so obvious to you

For those wanting to start and share writing

I give you this simple advice:

We all feel like frauds. Some more than others

But we all remember the first time we shared

It's always the hardest. And the scariest.

Even after practice, even after years, poetry still sounds dumb if you look too long.

But art is not for the long time, it is meant for moments.

And the best way to recapture any moment gone

Is to share it.

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