I Just Don't Know by Shiloh

I've written and rewritten,
crossed out and typed again,
my thesaurus is all dog-eared,
my dictionary looks like sin.

I write what seems important,
but then, only so to me,
and I wonder, really wonder
what it's all meant to be.

Is it only for my ego
that I put this stuff online,
and am I just so full of me
that I think I am so fine?

Sometimes I think that what I write
is worth sharing with the world,
but then I pause and wonder,
if anyone reads my written word.

You see, I can't do very well
at making my lines rhyme,
and I really stink at making
a rhyme every other line.

Some are able, very much so,
to write verse that rhymes,
but I find that I'm unable,
though I've tried so many times.

And meter? Well, forget that,
'cause I don't know what it means,
and if I had to write that way,
I'd just create a scene.

So I wonder, really wonder,
what it is that makes me do this...
am I what you'd call a writer,
or just a scribbling doofus?

Time and a keyboard handy,
and a place to post my stuff,
and I fear I'll keep it up
until someone says, "Enough!"

Bipedalguy (75.67.182.104) -- Wednesday, October 10 2007, 10:17 pm

Poem about poetry
I love this poem.
It's the first poem I've seen written on the frustrations of writing poetry.
I think you judge yourself unfairly. This was very well written, and I've seen lots of great writes with your name on them.

I'm trying to get back into this after writing nothing for several months. I just wrote one on a subject that I'm very emotional about, and it makes me cry. That's probably not because it's good, but because it's so bad.

Keep 'em coming! (Your poems I mean.) Bip

shiloh (66.24.112.118) -- Friday, October 12 2007, 09:48 am

appreciate your thoughts...
thank you for the encouragement, it helps keep me motivated. and your writings are pretty darn good, and I enjoy your work as well. peace...

barb (67.58.206.151) -- Wednesday, October 17 2007, 05:43 pm

feelings from the heart
Your writing may not rhyme but that's called free verse. And writing is for us to get our thoughts and feelings out. To me writing from the heart means more than rhyming and our writes sre suppose to be fun,not stessful trying to rhyme and worry about the right meter. Your writing uis good cause it's real and in your own words.

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