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User	Kellyr | 2005-01-15 |
Subject	why I write poems
Message	It really simple (at least for me) I write because it makes me feel good. I didn’t at first share my poems. I just wrote them because I was young and hurting. then I wrote because I was involved with pen pals who wrote and we shared. Now I write because I know I can. But the real reason is because sharing my written word is also sharing my thoughts and emotions on a subject. I tend to express myself much better with the written word than I do verbally.

User	Di Re Rakord | 2005-01-13 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I write to express feelings that shouldent be locked up inside forever.

User	ANGELO | 2005-01-13 |
Subject	...
Message	it makes me feel worthy of the time i’ve been given... i don’t think glasses were made to be empty.

User	Apocalyptica | 2005-01-13 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Oh man, I’m sorry...I can’t even begin to understand how devestated you must’ve felt when you found that out. I wouldn’t have been able to handle it... I’m glad you enlightened us on the more important aspects of writing....To help, to inspire. To put a smile on someone’s face, to reach out and really help someone. Thanks HP, and God speed. Let’s hope the doctors were wrong.

User	Apocalyptica | 2005-01-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I’ve done it for years and never knew why. It’s just natural for me, like breathing. Besides all that, if I didn’t put my thoughts down on paper, either my head would explode or I’d have a nervous breakdown.

User	Primal | 2004-12-16 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Because it’s fun and a good way to pass the time espcially when I can’t sleep.

User	zadhoevlhu13 | 2004-12-14 |
Subject	why?
Message	I write because it is my happiness. As I write, I am able to speak to myself and know myself a little more. Also, writing gives me a chance to shout out to people what I really feel inside me without any more pretentions and those sort. As I write, I feel like my burdens are eased just like having a friend to talk to.. All in all, I write because writing is my friend, my happiness and my voice.

User	eener | 2004-12-13 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I’m a rather shy person, so throughout my life, I’ve had a hard time talking to people about debated topics and expressing my views. Throughout the years, I have realized (more so than ever when I came on this site) that I have a very powerful voice, but not so in my spoken voice (I am pretty soft spoken in an uncomfortable, intimidating situation), but in my words. I have realized that I am capable of writing pieces that make people think about their actions, or of the actions of others, and really think through what has been done. I have realized that I can make people feel happy and make them smile through what I write, and I can also make them think and wonder. I have also realized that there is no more perfect way to express my love to someone than through poetic verse. The best way I can say what I think is through poetry. The best way I can get people to listen to me is through poetry. The best way I can vent is to write a piece that serves to send a thought provoking message to the readers about my experience. I guess it’s no surprise that I just realized a couple of months ago that I want to be a teacher :) I just want to pass on my knowledge of the world to the people I think need it the most. I may not be good at publically debating, but give me an hour or two, and I’ll come up with a piece about the matter that will knock your socks off. That’s why I write poetry.

User	Mister Fizzle | 2004-12-12 |
Subject	untitled
Message	sickly seeking validation.

User	magnicat | 2004-12-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	i write because i am compelled to write. it’s not like i go looking for it, really. most of the time a poem will just present itself to me... usually in the middle of the flippin’ night when i want to sleep! i think that it comes from beyond me; i am just the vessel, really. some of the poems that come out of me i have no idea where i got it from. when i wrote "splintered lies," i wasn’t going through anything like that, wasn’t thinking of anything like that... the poem just showed itself to me. it is strange, but that is it!

User	cuddledumplin | 2004-12-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I write because I’m incapable of not doing it. I written since I could write. I can’t go more than a day or so without writing, or I get physically ill. I have all depression too (I can’t remember not being depressed or an insomniac). Perhaps that has something to do with it. I write when I’m not affected by strong emotion though, so it’s not the only driving force.

User	mae | 2004-12-09 |
Subject	untitled
Message	For me, as for most people, writing started as an expression of emotion, dark emotion. At first, I never wrote unless I was depressed. As I grew more comfortable with this form of expression, I used it for love poems, too, but still I didn’t write as a constant exercise. Long periods would go by without my writing a word. But by now, at this advanced stage in my life (!), I feel the NEED to write something about almost anything nearly every day. I usually end my day with something involving my writing - either composing or rewriting my own pieces or critiquing someone else’s. It’s simply a longing to put words on paper in a way that touches other people.

User	Shawnothan | 2004-12-01 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Writing is an amazing avenue not only for expressing personal opinion or experience, but for painting pictures with words. I love to write because in doing so I can create an entire mental interface within a single page that holds the potential to create a complete detailed picture within the mind of the reader. Whether it be an idea or a narration, a written work transfers something from the mind of one person to another. That, to me, is amazing. But I also write because I enjoy being able to express what I am feeling in such a convenient and effective manner. It is a great way to get things that are inside out into the open.

User	Raineyes | 2004-11-18 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I write to release who I am. . .to be me. . .to let go of everything building inside me. . .to release the storm and be OK. . .

User	joeyalphabet | 2004-11-10 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I’ve suffered from chronic depression that went undiagnosed from my early teenaged years to ’98 [I’m 42, btw]. I started writing in ’98, basically to vent. My creative urges had been dormant for a while, but the breakdown I suffered brought them back to the surface [by necessity, I suppose]. Since then, I’ve found that art and writing help me stay out of the darkness, or at least make it less dark. Writing is a lot easier than painting or drawing, especially at my house with the toddler, so that’s what I’ve concentrated on.

User	Stalking Sylvia | 2004-11-09 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I have absolutely no idea...mebbe I keep thinking I’ll amuse myself...lol

User	lili | 2004-10-27 |
Subject	untitled
Message	well for me my husband told me to get a hobby and i told him that every thing costs money. then i had gotten stressed out and just started writing things down and sent a few of my writings to my mom and then found this site. i think that it is away for me to vent my feelings about sertain things and have something that i am proud of. something that makes me special. a thing of self accomplishment. and i personally feel that i am good at it. i have been on here for 1?? hundres some odd days now and i have grown so much as a writer frome all the help i have gotten here on this site. i also love learning so that is what writing does for me. i lear more about writing and i also learn more about my self. so all in all i do it for ME. thanks for asking Lia

User	Njud_Gold | 2004-10-22 |
Subject	NGold
Message	I find writing very interesting and inspiring. Writing is one of the most therapeutic source calming the human body, spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally. I write because it allow me be creative. Writing give me the opportunity to let my voice hear, so there is nothing more elavating than that.

User	nameless_nobody | 2004-10-13 |
Subject	untitled
Message	i write cos i dont have the talent to be a rock star, i dont have the cheap looks to be a pop star and i dont have the 12 inch cock to be a porn star. so im a odd-job man who writes when he has time.

User	Learah | 2004-10-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	I write... because I like it and I’m good at it. A lot of stuff I write is just journals and notes for myself. I’m working on a kids’ book and read and submit poetry, all because it just feels like my thing. We all have some particular arena in which we feel most comfortable, and i feel like I’m sitting on an old bean bag =) I’ve always written bits and pieces like my journals and then essays and things at school (when I bothered to do them),I never started writing poetry until one day in April, I was very depressed and wrote a poem and felt so good at having found something that I could pour my anguished little heart into, something creative. So I looked up poetry places on the net that day and found elite. So my progress in poetry was recorded here on elite, until I deleted all my posts. I am a creative person... I like making stuff, you know? Being able to make pictures and stories with words is fantastic, because we can see that we do it *exactly* right. We have utter control over what the world sees, just like a sculptor who moulds clay, a seamstress that sews fabric or a pianist tinkling ivories. To see your thoughts come out to the world telling YOUR truth as you see it... Well, it beats trainspotting.