Like songwriting. Not exactly now, since I tried it before (and failed brilliantly at it) but I thought I could give it a go one more time.

I honestly don’t see myself as a poet or a lyricist. I suck at rhyming, I don’t have a clue about composing songs, and I don’t know the first thing about haikus or sonnets and all that jazz. But ever since Feli moved and SAYS put up the Poetry Prompts section, I’ve been rediscovering the poet in me. A bit rusty at it, and a good amount of what I came up with won’t even see the light of day, but I’m pretty proud about some of them. Getting good feedbacks made me feel more comfortable too. =D

I learned some things when I started showing people my poetries:

One: They reveal a lot more than you wanted to

With prose, you get to hide behind the characters, the setting, the plot. With poetry, there’s nothing to hide you. I believe all my writing has a piece of me in them, whether it’s a past experience or a wistful thinking, but it’s not all me. It wouldn’t be interesting if it was. :P My poetries, especially the later ones, are more about me: my life, what I want, what I feel, etc etc. That is probably why I’m more comfortable with showing them to my online friends than to my best friends, who are more than likely to know in an instant what or who I was talking about.

Two: For me, simplicity is the way to go

I don’t do fancy. Can’t. I try, but when I do write a poem, what comes from the heart – unedited – is usually the best. Guess I’m more Taylor Swift than Paramore, though I wouldn’t mind being Paramore sometimes. =D

So all in all, I like writing poetries. But I’m not as confident with them as I am with my stories. So yes, I’m not going to post them here. Not until I’m really sure about them. ^_^