Poetryphobia

If you ever find yourself in a highschool classroom, you’d most always hear a collective groan from the class when the teacher would announce the beginning of the poetry unit. Why are we so impartial to poetry now, however, when it was so widespread before? Simply put, it’s come from our disconnect with our inner selves. The emotional plane has become a taboo space in western culture. It’s seen as a distraction and untruthful so it’s ignored, and this ignorance over time has made us lose knowledge and understanding of our emotions. Poetry IS emotions, and because we’ve lost touch with our emotions, we’ve lost touch with poetry.

Ok so uhhh that was really short but that’s the best way I could put it. Here’s a haiku in the meantime that I wrote just now;

The cry of the finch

Is the cricket's morning song,

A beautiful doom.