Nightlightsky0626 Verses from a Poetic Heart
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I remember sitting in a classroom in middle school when I heard my first poem (one that I actually paid attention to) by Edgar Allen Poe. I was so intrigued by his poetry that I began to research other poets like Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Wolfe and later in life I became intrigued by Maya Angelou's poetry. I attempted to experiment with my own skills in writing, never getting anyone to critique them. I hid them for a long time before finally getting rid of them after I graduated high school because I was afraid of what people would think of me. I later started writing poems again when things seemed hopeless and it helped me to vent my stress onto paper. I have not stopped writing poems ever since then and have met many other poets like myself. I was able to read one of my poems to a support group for the victims at a RAVE meeting with a positive response to my poetry. I have put together my own poetry website and I have had a lot of positive feedback on them. I have a friend who is a well-known poet in France whose name is Athanse Vantchev De Thracy and he has become a dear friend and an honest critic of my poetry. I have over 50 poems so far and would like to write more but have to be inspired to pen new works. You can e-mail me at: nightlightsky0626@yahoo.com.
I am soooo excited to have my own web-page for my poetry. I am originally from Ionia, Michigan and love to write poems. I have been secretly writing poems since I was about 13 (a secret revealed as no one knew this before now)and unfortunately I have thrown away all of my older poems. I have two children, both grown and on their own. I have two dogs and I work and go to school along with writing poetry. Sometimes it takes me only ten minutes to write a poem and other times it takes me a couple of months. With today's society being as greedy and selfish as most of them tend to be, I found a way to deal with my anger towards them and found it to be quite mentally stabilizing. I used to have a bad temper but through the help of God and my studies, I have been able to rewire my brain into acknowledging my anger and then writing down my thoughts. This has helped so much and now my poems are my outlet for my anger, pain, self-doubt, hatred of injustice and other common things we see in society today.
I hope you enjoy my other poems as much as I have enjoyed writing them. I get new ideas all the time, as we all do because of so much adversity hitting us day and night. All it takes is being inspired from reading or hearing something bad from the news or seeing an injustice happen to someone I care about or going through my own personal hell. Regardless of what I do or what happens, God is there to calm me down and help me to get back on track. I do have a question though, why is it that when something bad/drastic happens to people, we are all there to help, but when there is nothing major going on, we ignore one another? Hmmmmm.
Anyways, when bad/or emotionally moving things happen, I become inspired to write, with or without the approval of anyone. When the mood hits me, I jot down my thoughts on paper now, eventually, it becomes a poem. I have been inspired quite often to write poems. My early past memories and experiences are part of my poetic accomplishments. The only one I have not experienced personally is the "WHY DADDY WHY" poem. That one was written by hearing stories told by children who have been victims of Domestic Violence. A very sad array of horror stories have been told by these children. So this idea was not my own personal experience but an experience of a child who was only 8 years old when her mother was murdered by her father one night. He thought she was sleeping through the whole thing, unfortunately she was not, she was so horrified at this that she did not speak for 6 years after her father was sentenced to life in prison. Finally, she faced her mother's murder and has become a beautiful normal functioning member of society. She even plans to go to college when she graduates from High School. She wants to be a family counselor for domestic abuse victims. She has spoken at many support group gatherings relaying her nightmarish experience. Her bravery is to be very much commended.
Poetry is a way for not only myself, but others to express themselves, if no one is willing to read them or understand them, that is their own loss for not being able to closely examine the feelings behind the words. Some things are NOT better left unsaid as others have had similar feelings and experiences!! The key to understanding and empathy is walking millions of miles in another's shoes. Leave the judging to God.
I remember sitting in a classroom in middle school when I heard my first poem (one that I actually paid attention to) by Edgar Allen Poe. I was so intrigued by his poetry that I began to research other poets like Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, and Thomas Wolfe and later in life I became intrigued by Maya Angelou's poetry. I attempted to experiment with my own skills in writing, never getting anyone to critique them. I hid them for a long time before finally getting rid of them after I graduated high school because I was afraid of what people would think of me. I later started writing poems again when things seemed hopeless and it helped me to vent my stress onto paper. I have not stopped writing poems ever since then and have met many other poets like myself. I was able to read one of my poems to a support group for the victims at a RAVE meeting with a positive response to my poetry. I have put together my own poetry website and I have had a lot of positive feedback on them. I have a friend who is a well-known poet in France whose name is Athanse Vantchev De Thracy and he has become a dear friend and an honest critic of my poetry. I have over 50 poems so far and would like to write more but have to be inspired to pen new works. You can e-mail me at: nightlightsky0626@yahoo.com.
I am soooo excited to have my own web-page for my poetry. I am originally from Ionia, Michigan and love to write poems. I have been secretly writing poems since I was about 13 (a secret revealed as no one knew this before now)and unfortunately I have thrown away all of my older poems. I have two children, both grown and on their own. I have two dogs and I work and go to school along with writing poetry. Sometimes it takes me only ten minutes to write a poem and other times it takes me a couple of months. With today's society being as greedy and selfish as most of them tend to be, I found a way to deal with my anger towards them and found it to be quite mentally stabilizing. I used to have a bad temper but through the help of God and my studies, I have been able to rewire my brain into acknowledging my anger and then writing down my thoughts. This has helped so much and now my poems are my outlet for my anger, pain, self-doubt, hatred of injustice and other common things we see in society today.
I hope you enjoy my other poems as much as I have enjoyed writing them. I get new ideas all the time, as we all do because of so much adversity hitting us day and night. All it takes is being inspired from reading or hearing something bad from the news or seeing an injustice happen to someone I care about or going through my own personal hell. Regardless of what I do or what happens, God is there to calm me down and help me to get back on track. I do have a question though, why is it that when something bad/drastic happens to people, we are all there to help, but when there is nothing major going on, we ignore one another? Hmmmmm.
Anyways, when bad/or emotionally moving things happen, I become inspired to write, with or without the approval of anyone. When the mood hits me, I jot down my thoughts on paper now, eventually, it becomes a poem. I have been inspired quite often to write poems. My early past memories and experiences are part of my poetic accomplishments. The only one I have not experienced personally is the "WHY DADDY WHY" poem. That one was written by hearing stories told by children who have been victims of Domestic Violence. A very sad array of horror stories have been told by these children. So this idea was not my own personal experience but an experience of a child who was only 8 years old when her mother was murdered by her father one night. He thought she was sleeping through the whole thing, unfortunately she was not, she was so horrified at this that she did not speak for 6 years after her father was sentenced to life in prison. Finally, she faced her mother's murder and has become a beautiful normal functioning member of society. She even plans to go to college when she graduates from High School. She wants to be a family counselor for domestic abuse victims. She has spoken at many support group gatherings relaying her nightmarish experience. Her bravery is to be very much commended.
Poetry is a way for not only myself, but others to express themselves, if no one is willing to read them or understand them, that is their own loss for not being able to closely examine the feelings behind the words. Some things are NOT better left unsaid as others have had similar feelings and experiences!! The key to understanding and empathy is walking millions of miles in another's shoes. Leave the judging to God.
