Poetry Time!

  I have always loved poetry. Whether it was Edgar Allan Poe who created "The Raven" or Alfred Lord Tennyson who captivated me with "The Lady of Shalott". Recently, I was in the mood to create some of my own poetry and sat down to write "To Capture the Emotions", a free verse poem. I am not exactly sure what inspired it, perhaps it was some recent feelings that I have been struggling to express.

 Anyway, I hope this blog will eventually contain a lot of my poetry, but please be patient with my entire blog as school starts next week. I hope to manage my time better and post some more of my works, but school (and my horse) comes first!






To Capture the Emotions

You almost have it,

The perfectly formed emotion,

The feeling you wished to portray,

To give breath to,

To give life to.

Suddenly, the page gives way,

The emotions cascade into,

A million reactions.

To capture emotion on paper,

Seems so dull,

Compared to this raging storm inside,

To this feeling burning inside you,

Words merely dance around,

Expression only drains its color.

Its vibrancy dies with explanation,

Like a candle in the wind,

Like a phantom void of life.

How exactly do you do it?

Create words to express a feeling,

So passionate, so raw,

So painful, so sorrowful,

So joyful, so energetic.

To capture the emotions,

Is to cage a rare butterfly,

You will keep it caged,

Never to comprehend its true beauty.

Cameo H.