Thank you! I got into poetry during school, mostly because I thought the area had a lot of potential but I found it very nonsensical and useless.
But one day I was in a horrendous mood and I needed to get my anger out, so I wrote a very long monologue about the woes of the world as it were, and then once I calmed down I read it through.
The points were good but the execution was terrible and I wanted to improve it and make it shorter, but it wouldn’t work as a speech or an essay so I turned to poetry.
That was “God Of War” (or at least is now) and after I wrote that I found that occasionally I’d have a very expansive or interesting thought that needs more than just words to explain, and whenever I have one of those I turn it into a poem.
Then again I’m not primarily a poet, I do it on the side of my writing as a way to enhance and improve literature instead of as a replacement, so I write poetry through a very different lens then most
Im sorry I can’t give you a more helpful reply
