Poetry is something that I am highly passionate about. It is my version of "hunting" or "fishing" or "shopping" or something like that. In order to write poetry I have to be 100% ready to commit. When I actually write the work, the words flow out of me. When I finish a poem I go back and either delete all of it or delete some of it or maybe just change a lot about it. Poems are never finished.
I am never content with the way my poems turn out. For instance, an important person in my life asked me to write a poem about hunting for them. I said yes and spent 3 hours working on it the first day. Then the next day I can back to it and decided it was horrible and that I hated it. It wasn't my best work. I was a failure, but I sent him the poem to show what I had so far. By surprise he really enjoyed it and said that I had a talent, but for me it still wasn't good enough. It might sound stupid or something to think of writing as a skill or a hobby but to me it isn't just those things it's also a very important part of my life.
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