Poetry

I write poems, sometimes, though I'm actually rather bad at poetry, frankly. I didn't spend any time reading or writing it growing up because I hated from the moment I was born up until the start of University. The foundation of that hatred was, quote—

"I just hate it. It's pretentious. And stupid." -little revna

Anyway, I got over myself and started writing poems last year or so. I really like the format, and I'll definitely keep with it, as there's quite a bit left to learn from it.

Most of my poems so far are quite bad, some of them are middling, and maybe one? total? is 'good'. I feel inner conflict about sharing something I feel is bad with an audience I want to prove something to. But, too, I feel conflict with that inner conflict. I want to destroy it wholesale.

I take serious offense to the idea that an artist's best work is the only thing worth sharing, presenting, or discussing.

I desire– fundamentally— to share the good, the bad, and the cringe from all the different parts of my process and my writing. I care deeply about transparency in my writing process and I strongly believe that this transparency is beneficial to me, my readers, other writers, and even my would-be one-day critics.

Poems: the good / the bad / the cringe