Poetry

I gave up writing poetry many years ago but - to be fair - my first attempts at writing turned out to be poems. I was 9 years old when I produced the first poem and sadly it has been lost in the sands of time. I only remember that it was very dark and gloomy (I came into teenage angst very early ;-)

Still, I enjoy a lot of poems and some of my favourite poets inlucde Lord Tennyson, W. H. Auden, and of course, Edgar Allan Poe. These three authors all have in common to have written "fairy tale" poems. Here are examples:

Lady (weeping at the crossroads) by W. H. Auden
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Lady of Shalott by Tennyson

So, I wrote some poems back in the old days and now and again I come across them. Here is one that I found recently when searching through some of my notebooks from about 12 years ago:

Resurrection

I found my heart in my head
And realized I was dead.
I pulled it out -
Without a doubt -
"Now you're stupid", it said.

I left some love in my brain,
It made me go insane.
There's nothing more
To keep the score
Of sorrow and simple pain.

Not a masterpice and I don't really remember what I was thinking while writing it. Usually these poems just came and I never struggeled with them. Actually they still do (come to me that is). The difference is that I don't write them down anymore. Writing poems is not my strong side and I'll leave that to others ;-)