Poetry For All

Poetry is something that should be easily accessible to all. And when I say free accessible, it means that everyone should have the free breath to believe a thought and to bring it forward in the form of poetry. I believe in the quote, with great power comes great responsibility. We have to understand and know the impact of our words.

Poetry should be used as a tool to uplift the human spirit or to cultivate and expand a thought on a subject. One of the goals of writing poetry should be to help someone to look at something from a perspective that they never before considered. They were completely blind to a thought and you help them breaks the chains from just hearing about it to thinking and really wanting to dive deep into the subject. You were the instrument for that change. Or you helped give that extra push that brought a complete understanding of the subject. If you are really a great poet, you will leave your reader knowing more and being more confused and ultimately questioning themselves.

One of the questions you should be asking yourself is "Are you an agent for change?" Can you help the world see things in a different light than the one there were looking at it from now? Will you bring them from complete darkness into a new state of being? Will you force them to ask questions of themselves that they would not normally ask?

And there is a deeper cause still. Can you help them feel something they have never felt? Are you willing to be that agent of change where you take your feelings and pour them down on paper or the computer screen and you help a stranger or friend for that matter connect to what you have to say. You are in essence a freedom fighter. Trying to help others understand the limits of their limitations and to expand beyond them. Because poetry should be for all.