We write poetry to woe girls? Is that right? Certainly, most girls and women love the idea of being serenaded in verse and are quite succeptible to its charms. Surely, we don't write poems in order to communicate or anything that mundane? I hope not.
Perhaps we feel a burning need to convey. To convey something about ourselves, the world and our place in it. I used to want to celebrate life and being alive in my poems. Recent more disastrous personal circumstances have put the dampeners on that lofty aim to some extent.
Who knows? There are millions of different poems and many different poets. Let's celebrate what we like and deal with what we don't..
