Does a poem...?

[Leanne]

Sometimes I'll write a poem to eradicate a feeling.
In which case it wouldn't make much sense to anyone but me, but I like to put it out there anyway just to see how it makes others feel (usually troubled).
I mean that's usually the case for some of my more garbled nonsense.

Provided there's a bit of a key, we can use our own empathy to make sense of the most garbled emotional nonsense . Exploring emotions in poetry is certainly nothing new or unusual, but finding new and unusual ways of doing so... well, that's the greatest challenge of all. And you never know who you'll reach with it... because none of us are unique in our troubles and woes.

Again, quoting Hector from The History Boys (and if you haven't seen the film, why the hell not?!): "The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

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P.S. Of course if you have no empathy, you're pretty much screwed.