the way we write

[zell19861986]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

 

[bluerains]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

a part of self ..seems to be like Christopher Walken in the Prophecy..most humans are monkey minded...cloned drones...is my cynical downfall...a closet dragon...with no halo of humanity...holding any redeeming quality..an ode to depression...

 

[annaswirls]

Good question Zell!

I was saying to Maria on another thread how poets often go drilling when we write... so even though you are on happy grounds, as a poet, you probably drill down through the depth of something, whatever it is you are writing about-- which has more than a happy component to it.

It is wonderful that you can write kind of depressing and stay happy!

Sometimes I write angry when I am not angry at all. It is like a catharsis. The reason you are not depressed is because you get it out ahhhh....



~anna

 

[wildsweetone]

i have a character that i include in particular prose pieces. i include him because it's like he's standing on my shoulder not letting me do other things until i've written him all out.

perhaps your writing depressing poems because somewhere deep inside you there is still a need to continue writing that way until you've written it all out.

some people find it difficult to move on until they have dealt in a 'complete' way with whatever is holding them back.

just a thought.



whatever the reason, there is much learning in the writing, so don't stop.

 

[Guest]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

Yes, and I hate it.

My married neighbors were fighting outside the other night. I was laying in bed and began to write about it. They were very, very loud and it was getting late. They eventually went inside after cooling down but I ended the poem with her dead on the railroad tracks that I live by. It was bloody. I woke the next morning, grabbed the pad of paper from under my pillow, read it for the third time, and threw it out.

 

[WickedEve]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

I do quite often. It think it's good therapy.

 

[Tzara]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

I'm more the other way around. I often write silly poems even when I'm depressed.

 

[My Erotic Trail]

I'm more the other way around. I often write silly poems even when I'm depressed.

I have a policy of not writing depressing poetry. It generates depressing thoughts. I responded to a call one night where a family (in their car) had been hit by a train. Picking the grey matter off the surviving children and wheeling away their parents really touched me deeply. I spent forever trying to relay this in a poem. (children that will grow up without parents) I realized that the more I dabbled in the thought, the more I was depressed about this situation. So, I vowed to fill my life with humorous poetry and cheer the world up the best I can since there is so much, I do mean so much SAD situations in the world. Yes, I have and do write depressing poetry to releave and vent a situation but I rarely post them. "A BLIZZARD FOREVER" is a good example.

A Blizzard Forever
by My Erotic Tail ©

Blizzard beats
at a window pane
watching snow
build up
around the edges
lack of
anything better to do

little nose
pressed
against the glass
watching the cold
thinking back
of chilly days
can't play
wondering
why
there are
cold ways

Child knows
against the cold
his mind's
windows of pain
will always be
a blizzard
because
his parents fleed

will he be
forever
in a blizzard?

Wrap my arms
around him
wipe icicle tears
he knows love
and smiles at me
but doesn't understand
not having
his mommy
and daddy

neither do I~

so aunt and uncle
are now mom and dad
but one day
he'll go into the world
storming
searching
blizzards
wanting answers

why?

for I can't answer
the chilling question
or understand
cold hearts
two nose's
against the glass
when will
this blizzard pass?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dedicated to khristian, CJ and
templeminded

 

[Liar]

Well, I can't write anything other than maybe post-it notes and grocery lists when I'm depressed.

And still, I have some really depressed (or depress-ing) poems. So...go figure. Everything I write is in retrospect.

 

[Sex and Death]

i always write kinda depressing poems when i write even if i'm really happy. i was just wondering if any one else was like this

I try and write in as many different "moods" as I can.

To me, each feeling, and the quality of it in the moment, wants me to see the world through it. Depression and sadness seem to want me to slow down, sink down, go down, and see things more slowly, see the interiority of things, reflect on loss in some way.

My feeling at the time of writing is usually congruent with the feeling of the poem. The poem is invariably colored by the feeling in which it was steeped.

I would ask yourself, as WSO suggested, if there is something unattended inside you that is wanting attention, maybe a sadness seeking voice.

Although, analysis can be the enemy of art.

SD