08-05-2018, 04:05 AM
I was thinking about something. I don't know why it never occurred to me before. I went to a writers' group at a place in town, and I've been there lots of times over the years. They always hate my poetry. I was there last month and it was just me and one other person that showed up. And that person asked why I always throw these unnecessary things into my poems like dragons and manic sphinxes and dark spirits. Why can't I just write about my true thoughts and feelings without resorting to images and similies and metaphors. And since then I've been wondering: Isn't that what poetry is? Those things.