Poetry as Vehicle

What my poetry is about

Poetry is a vehicle: to reflect on lessons learned and experiences. So many of my works are about processing events, thoughts and how I feel around the world around me. What I’m learning in this season, or seasons past. Poetry is memories. Yet…

Poetry is a vehicle: to engage in fantasy. To let my inner bad girl out or celebrate a musician, wrestler, or celebrity. To indulge a side I’d love to have and magnify or exaggerate her experiences. It’s like dressing up when younger only with personas instead of clothes. I always turn over in my mind that…

Poetry is a vehicle: to explore different views. The poet and the poem are not the same thing. Just because I wrote it doesn't make it about me. It could be something that is embellished, stretched out or because I wanted to pretend to wear different identities. Sometimes I write to slip into a different skin. To try to see the other side of my belief or my worldview. To wonder out loud what is going on in someone else’s mind.

Finally, poetry is a vehicle: to meet my own mind. To process unspoken thoughts. To tap into both heart and soul. To explore in writing new concepts. To practice mindfulness in taking stock of what is around me, inside of me.