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Simply put, I write poetry because there are some things that cannot be said in any other way but a poem.
What other words
Do we have
To describe the passion
The madness
The infinitesimally short
Blur of color
Flash of light
That is the human life
But the nonsensical chain
Of glimpses, of paroxysmal emotions
The flushed, frenzied attempt
Of our humble kind
To express all of it
Called poetry?
This is why I write
It is to explore those unseen places
I lost in fading dreams.
Greetings, I'm Nicolas. Based in Serbia, in central Europe, I'm an 18-year-old aspiring poet. My topics range from nature to spirituality, from storytelling to love — and most often, with introspective undertones.
My styles range from modern to strict rhyme and meter; villanelle to free verse. As a relative beginner, my style is yet to mature: I change styles often, depending on my mindset and the topic I'm expressing.
To me, poetry is about exploring and expressing parts of me and my observations of the world that can't be expressed in any other way. My poems are my diary entries. They're my love letters, my farewells, my fears, my dreams.
When I write, I use my visual imagination to find words. Inspiration does not come often, but can come anywhere. Often a short, sudden impression was the inspiration for my best poems. It could be a glimpse of a butterfly, a stranger's glance, a beautiful part of a song, or a long-forgotten memory that suddenly came back to me for no reason whatsoever.
There are some things we all experience, but never tell anyone about. A peculiar emotion; an unexpected thought. It strikes us as strange, but somehow, also beautiful.
"Then I escaped into a land,
A place where no barriers stand.
A land where the impossible
Was touchable and visible.
‘Twas dreamland written on pages,
Set in nonexistent ages.
All their faces more real to me,
Than the ones in reality."
An excerpt from the poem, Moonlit Reverie.
This is what I wish my poetry to be about: to tell the wandering soul they are not alone in their unusuality.
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