I love poetry. Some of the pieces that move me the most are poems; I love how they can be so profound in such few words. I think that, for most writers, when we are overwhelmed with a certain emotion we quickly turn to poetry. They always have meaning and a purpose. As much as I love poetry, I rarely write it. For me, the act of writing poetry is a strange one. I cannot just sit down and set out to write a poem. When I do write a poem I feel that it is hardly my choice, that the words aren’t even mine. A feeling comes over me and I am just compelled to write; I feel like a vehicle for some outside force. The emotion is inescapable and the words just flow.
