Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts

Thursday, February 27, 2020

BTS: Why You


"Why You?" is an English phrase repeated often in a song I like by Korean singer IU from her most recently released EP. Like the majority of songs floating out there in the universe this one is about a subject most often brought up by people in their day to day lives, most commonly in the month of February, when store displays turn red and pink and bulge with hearts, flowers, and chocolate.

I don't remember all of the English translation of the song but that's where the title of this poem came from. Like many I found myself thinking about my own relationships this month, and when I started to look back on certain things and wrote this poem it made me think of this song.

In the song when IU repeats "why you?" "think of you" "wait for you" "love you" she is talking about someone she loved that she's trying to get over, and is wondering why she still loves them. When you're trying your hardest to get over someone one of the hardest things to do at the conclusion of a relationship is to ask yourself why you liked them.

In life there can be many reasons why something didn't work out, not all of them ideal, you may even find yourself struggling to think of some if the rose colored glasses are still there and the pain is fresh, but what happened happened. Even if it takes a few years to realize it.

When you finally get to a place where it's okay for you to think of that person and look back on the relationship without much pain or hard feelings, you might finally be reaching a place where you are able to heal.


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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

BTS: A Poem After a Long Time

Only ever fallen in love twice, the first I've written several poems about, the second, it's best not to think about.





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Thursday, February 22, 2018

BTS: Stump

For the longest time I've been trying to figure out how to finish this poem. When you're burnt out and you have writers block, culmination of spending the past year doing nothing but getting over life and writing a ton of poems, it can get really frustrating when you have an idea you really like but are unable to come up with a way to bring it to being.

Moments like this are bane for writers. Instead of spending all day on a mediocre date with a blank white page, what I tend to do when one of them overstays its welcome is one of two things: force something to be there that isn't and relentlessly tinker till brains fry, or just leave it and set it aside until I'm able to revisit it later when inspiration strikes.

Stump isn't even a poem really, merely a small piece of the amount of thoughtage that can go through a person's mind as they go about their day to day, Rupi Kaur style, but I really liked the end result and wanted it to pack a punch and pay homage to Briggs.

After a few weeks of shelving the draft, keeping the idea warm and on call until the timing was right, this morning as I finished brushing my teeth it came to me. How to finish the poem. I needed to embrace my inner drama queen. And there you have it:)

What's your personality type? How does it make you feel? Comment below!


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