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maraki16

poetry doesn't love me

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i am trying to write poetry but i can't and i cannot understand why.
maybe i just don't have it. the talent i mean. that's right, perhaps i am simply useless at that and should cope with it. the truth is that i am better at writing novels and stuff like this apparently. but it really gets on my nerves that i cannot write some stanzas or lyrics!i try to do so, but i end up having written something that can be considered as a mixture of poetry, narrative with lots of lyrical elements and...i don't know really.they tell me they are nice,finding some of them actually really good, but i feel useless. i should be able to write a pure genre, shouldn't i? i mean, with prose it's ok, but what about poetry?
i don't know what to do with that, honestly i do not....i know, you are going to tell me ''come on! we've got much more serious stuff to worry about than your incapability to put some words together and write some stanzas...''. well, you will be right, certainly. so why did i wrote this? no idea. it was spontaneous...
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  1. Dark Muse's Avatar
    I can relate to what you are feeling, as an artist, one thing I absolutely cannot do, is draw the human figure, I can do landscapes, I can even draw aniamls, but no matter what I cannot draw a person that resmebles a human being, and I have taken art classes before tried varrious different figure drawing techniques. But it does not matter. While you should not give up on your poetry. Sometimes you have to accept that there are certain things which are difficult for you and embrace your strengths, instead of beating yourself up over your weakneses.
  2. Virgil's Avatar
    I don't know how old you are and how long you've been at it. Writing poetry doesn't come by nature. It takes some level of learning.
  3. Hobbes's Avatar
    I don't know if this can help you but:
    I usually write free form.
    Imagining might help. Seeing an object abstract or real and writing what gives it meaning to you.
    Remember, beauty and importance are abstract.

    I don't know about the Jabberwocky poem though.