Welcome to the first Q Series, aptly named
Poetry. (For more information on the Q Series, see information located at the end of this post.) Over the course of the next three Monday's I will be exploring three questions about poetry and myself. They are as follows:
Why do I write poetry?
Why do I like writing form (poetry)?
Why do I prefer free verse (poetry)?
So with out further ado...
Why Poetry? Of all the forms of writing out there, why would I choose poetry as my form of expression? Just as important is why I write at all. These are not simple questions and their answers are far from easy. Honestly, I find it hard to figure out where to begin or even what to include. But I do quite enjoy my second form of writing (what I've deemed Ramblings), so hopefully we'll all be able to follow along.
The inner workings of my brain....
I have several theories running in regard to the craziness that infects my brain. One includes how I was originally right brained (creative/artistic), but due to the irrational thoughts threatening to destroy me my left brain (logical/analytical) took over. Of course my right brain has continued to plot uprisings and so in the end I have a rather boring--and oddly--well balance brain. You see while my left brain (the one that loves solving systems of equations in multiple variables and using the Rational Root Theorem to find possible solutions to polynomial equations) has managed to tamper most of my irrational side, those thoughts are still there longing to escape and so I tap into the right side and write (no pun intended).
The irrational thoughts...
So as the tagline for this blog states, "this letting of words is my treatment...my salvation. it pulls all the toxins from my mind, body, and soul." I write in order to release or purge myself of the incessant and trying thoughts that threaten to consume me. Does that mean that I never deviate from the internal? No, occasionally it is just as important for me to write about something so completely unrelated to how I am feeling or the thoughts running around unchecked. It's how I keep sane...well maybe not sane so much as functional.
The letting of words...
This brings us back to why poetry. I could just as easily journal (or dear diary) myself into sanity. In fact, some of my ramblings are just that. The problem is it is too personal. With poetry...it's brevity...it's abstractness...I can disconnect myself. When I write poetry I can take an emotion or feeling and express it in such a way that the thoughts and events that sparked the irrational feeling floating in me are not really easily uncovered. It is sort of like being covered from head to toe in body paint, so that even though you are completely naked no one can really see you.
The
Q Series is a new theme. I decided Mondays needed to be spiced up a little bit. Plus I do kind of miss my incessant ramblings. How it works is quite simple. I take a topic of interest to me, personal or not, pose two - four questions, and spend several Mondays exploring the questions. I might miss the occasional Monday with this, but there is no hard and fast rule that I must post on Mondays...at least not yet.
