I love bad poetry especially when it is mine! Yay! I think it is funny to call it bad poetry even though secretly I really like but we all have different tastes. It is allowed to not like something, and to love something that may or may not be bad. Recently I learned that Emily Dickinson only published a dozen poems in her lifetime, it was only after her death that it was discovered that she wrote over 1800. Amazing. Also as an inspiring poet, fiction writer it is encouraging. I have written lots of poetry some of it bad, and some of it good. Poetry is something I write when I need to work through my emotions. This is the only thing that I write that might be considered non fiction (except you school paper. By the way I have 18.5 weeks left). I struggle with how much I belong in my writing and it is really my least favorite kind of writing because it is hard. In the past I did not value my work as much as I should have (crazy self esteem issues left over from my childhood) so I have lost an insane amount of work over the years due to being careless. I vow to stop being careless and more importantly value the talent God gave me. I hope you like my poem today. Hopefully I will bring you more work in the future. Also when I am finished with school I will be more active. I have a ton of projects in limbo which I decided to let sit until I am less distracted with what I am going to write for school.
I am
By Trisha Bartlett
Suffocating creativity
under the disguise
of teaching and learning.
Inspiration lost
in expectation.
My voice
transforming
unrecognizable
flat and boring.
This is me
on the page.
I cannot
will not
change
to simply please you.
I am
I can
I will
P.S. here is an Emily Dickinson poem
Fame is a bee.
By Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
I hope you have a wonderful day filled with love, inspiration, and laughter. Be well friends.
