The Writer In Me, Wants You To Know

THE WRITER IN ME, WANTS YOU TO KNOW Somebody called me a poetess in one of the Open Poetry sessions I attended and I said, “I’m not really a poetess”. I am a simple woman and I am a writer of simple poems. The writer in me wants you to know I am no poetess. A poet to me is somebody who writes with meter, rhyme; uses words for their beauty and sound, like vivid, imaginative words to share ideas, emotions, life stories or experiences. The vivid, imaginative awareness flows for it is arranged for its meaning and rhythm, thereby using flowery, descriptive words with extensive vocabulary, especially passive vocabulary. Passive vocabulary which we may know; but are rarely used. I write poems using active vocabulary, the words we understand and use every day for there are readers with minimal vocabulary. I write poems with simple words for the readers to easily grasp what I am conveying so they don’t have to think what I mean. Most of my writings are complex, life experiences or social issues based on my own life, observations, research and knowledge. I am a spiritual person; but I rarely write spiritual poems for not all readers are spiritual or believers and my main purpose is to reach out to everybody, believers and non-believers to inspire, motivate, encourage to hope and instill faith in them. The writer in me wants you to know what kind of a writer I am. I write poems that are direct and easy to understand that cater the ordinary to extra ordinary people and the people who have minimal vocabulary to the ones with vast, extensive vocabulary. 8/26/21 August 2021 NA's Poetry Constance La France 8/14/21 The Writer In Me, Wants You To Know Mystic Rose Rose Judged on 8/14/21 - got NA