The onset of winter

[billy]

see the problem you have, we're fighting over you at the end of the day, the choice is what do you want. to put things in perspective i'll give you my side. writing from the heart is fantastic and greatly good....if it works. often it doesn't. remember when you were a child and wrote all the letters and thought "WOW i'm great at writing" and mummy asked, "what does this say Jae" she kept it nonetheless because she loved you if you could read that piece of paper now, you'd see; nothing but scribbles. no kind of writing is good unless it has structure, without structure it's called gibberish. cliche is one of the main attributes of something written from the heart. we read, hear or see, something we like and store it away as something good or nice. when we write from the heart it's often those memories that pour out. writing from the head on the other hand allows us to alter those memories so that they become your your memories.

rose said;

I have written a few other poems in the same way and they always turn out to be very interesting, if not always understandable to me.

if all people want to do is write poems for yourself then that's fine. by putting your poem here we assume it's not just for yourself. it's now public and could in theory go viral. do you want a good poem or a poem from the heart? you as the poet has to decide what advice or suggestions to follow. the consensus of hundreds of years is that poetry from the heart has to go hand in hand with originality, syntax, presentation and much more for it to be good poetry. read some of the good poets and see for yourself.

she walks in beauty is a classic well written poem from the heart, and it's stunning. but and this is the biggest but you'll see....it's good. from the heart doesn't equate with good or great. first and foremost, the poem has to be good before it can be a good from the heart poem. jmo