11-30-2014, 09:24 AM
I have a deep fear that I'm guilty of writing meaningless poetry often. I tend to have these very sort of abstract ideas that I endeavor to communicate in very vague sort of ways, and It is usually my intention to design my poetry in such a way that it can in fact be interpreted many different ways by the reader, but have also feared for years that it was just a cop-out, as mentioned, and that I was really just fooling myself into believing that there's something worth finding in what I produce that simply isn't there. I've been reading poetry for many years, and feel that we've reached a point in our evolution where it has become exceedingly difficult to reword and rephrase thoughts and feelings and observations, so I guess being extremely "out there" has been my solution to the problem for years. Maybe I'm just not very good? I don't know. I suppose that's why I'm here!