How do you feel
After splattering your heart across a page
Do you feel freer
Or instead, enraged
Does it motivate you
To spill out some more
Or does it shake you
To your very core
How do you feel
After you’ve poured it all out
Like you want to scream
Or maybe even shout
Or do you feel lighter
Free as a bird
For now perhaps
You’ve finally been heard
© 2018 Michelle Cook
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How wonderfully appropriate after our conversations on my hubby and I’s blog. To think this was written two yrs ago makes all of it feel spiritual and mean to be.
K
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It really does seem fitting and isn’t that always amazing how we find such words when we need them the most. I have this kind of thing happen to me so often. I’ve no doubt there are spiritual reasons for such things. ❤️
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you, Chuck 🙂
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So happy to have so many of your great posts to share, M!!
Chuck 😊🌹
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When we write we all desire an audience, how do we feel? I think that very much depends on the audience. Some poems are written with a particular person in mind and then the ‘how do I feel’ depends upon the response. Others might merely express emotions in a way that the reader makes their own interpretation, which is how I often write. Of course, some can be serious, such as environmental issues. I settle usually for letting my emotions out to the world and it feels good 🙂 🙂
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Sometimes I find myself writing with many people or different situations on my mind. And so often because of this, my poetry tends to mean a million different things because there are bits and pieces of so many different parts of my life in there. I am always most inspired when I’m sitting outside, in awe of the wonderful world which surrounds me. I love letting all of my emotions run rampant for all the world to see. And like you, it feels so good to let it all out. 😉
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your poetry can touch people heart in many different way, an individual will read and swim with thoughts, as it relate to them internally.
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Thank you so much Shekri…. I did not expect to see you here! 😉 I am touched by your comment. You are so very kind.
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You are the best Michelle… 😉
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Thank you… so are you. 😉
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Takes a lot of personal growth and vulnerability is so very hard in today’s world of so much make belief…
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I think it depends… we need to spill our thoughts… and we also need to be read to be satisfied… so here I a am 🙂
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I think your exactly right… thanks for sharing. 😉
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I feel as though I have opened up my heart to the world and made my emotions known 🙂 I loved your poem!❤ Beautifully rendered.
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Thank you Sanaa… there is definitely a vulnerability that comes with writing. 😉
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Very good question. Sometimes the writing is all – you don’t necessarily need readers On the other hand……
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True… I think personal journals are best for this. Definitely safe havens, where we can keep our most inner thoughts discretely tucked away. I don’t have too many of them, but the ones I do are fun to look back on.
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I think I feel satisfied after a good write. Not free exactly, but like I’ve accomplished something.
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Oh yes, the sense of accomplishment. That’s a very high one on the list for me. A good long day of writing almost always make me feel accomplished. Probably the reason I never skip a day. Lol… 😉
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Love the poem and its query. For me, it helps me to get my feelings down and feel like I’ve captured them exactly. So I guess my answer is that I feel freer, but also I feel more peaceful.
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I understand exactly what you mean Sue. Definitely can be peaceful if you’ve said exactly what you needed to say.
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I feel nothing. An emtiness. A void. Zero. Dead.
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So you go into a zone? Perhaps we should call it the zombie zone… Maybe that’s the reason why the majority of what many of us writer’s write, we never actually remember writing. Lol… 😉
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I like that… The Zombie Zone. The land of the Writing Dead, lol
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Lol… You gotta write about that now. 😉
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Yeah, I know. Gee thanks, lol 😊
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Lol… 😉
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So true! I never remember what I’ve written. I’m not sure that’s a good thing 😔
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It makes it better when you go back to read it later though, especially when you say to yourself. “Wow! That’s really good… and then you notice your name at the bottom and realize it’s one of yours. Lol… 😉
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Yes, I have done that once or twice. LOL 😉
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Lol… I don’t think I’ve come across any that I’ve absolutely hated yet, so that’s a good sign. Lol…
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Oh I have a few. Usually the ones I don’t really like, everyone else does lolol
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That happens to you too? Lol…
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A very interesting discourse in light of the trial that just ended!! They were heard and splashed across the pages… Very good!
Dwight
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Hmmmm…. I’ve been out most of the day. Need to catch up on what I’ve missed. Yahoo where are you? Lol….
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Dr. Nasser was sentenced…
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Oh I was reading about that yesterday. Did he get the full 147 years? I think that’s what it was…
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Oh, yes, I thought it was 170 years!!
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Well, regardless… at least justice has been served.
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It’s just so sad that all of this had to go on for such a long time before the truth finally came out. 😦
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It really is so sad.!
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Good point. People call writing therapeutic, yet it can be indulgent, re-enforce bad habits, saddening or more. Like prayer, meditation, conversation and more, it all depends.
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There are days when it can be all of these…. so freeing when it’s like a prayer though.
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Well written Michelle, and so many posing questions, and I’d probably say yes to them all, as everyone of my writings produce a different emotion for me, sometimes I feel betterer, and other times I feel worserer, !!
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I love how you put that. I agree with you… depends on my mood. 😉
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I tend to feel relaxed.
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That’s good… 😉 I tend to feel relieved when I’m finished with a poem. Almost like a huge weight has been lifted off my chest.
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wonderful post… love this
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Thank you Grumpy. 😉
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