The original poetry collected here was written and reshaped from my old work a few years ago. I wanted to see how much my writing style had changed and revisit some of my older work... The first part is the younger me and the second part is a bit older me... If that makes sense...
There were 20 poems in this collection originally and I have not touched the first part, even grammatically...
With the pressure from my university I have also now (2026 September) begun to upload these to the dVerse Open Link Nights.
You can find many great poets at their link-up.
(Authors Note)
the Beginning
In the dim flickering light
Of the oil lamp on my bedside table
I am
Drunken on wine
Thoughts about him
Which intoxicates me more
I can not tell
But I grip onto a quill
As if
Writing poetry about him
Was my only saviour
Poetry on the Margins #1
P.S.:
Dim, Flickering light????
it wasn't a cheap bulb, even...
it was the screen of my computer...
in a dark room.
Aaand...
considering my age...
I was way too serious about poetry...
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Maybe writing poetry is a way of being with the one you love, when you can’t be.
Maybe. Or a way of remembering firsts or what you have seen… Or just… Dreaming…
Nevertheless, poetry is great…
Thank you for the comment!
What Dora said!👌🏼
Aww. Thank you!
I like the progression, and then maybe how you would write now. Myself I was quite old when I started to work… but as a matter of fact I also revisited a previous work of mine.
Thank you Björn! I really like your writing btw …
I started in my early teens and some of it I find. A BIT cringe and trying-too-hard. Am glad you like it though and I wouldn’t change much, maybe play with formatting and some words but …
Reelika, I like the original. I think they call it poetic license for a reason.
Thank you so much… 🙈
Writing surely helps!
Writing always helps. Thank you for commenting!
Great metaphor to show how overwhelming love and the writing about him can be 🙌
Thank you;
When I’m out of ideas, I will go back and investigate older poems for reinvigoration. I wrote a lot in the 80s and 90s, for fun and for processing things, some of which I no longer remember. It’s good to see how much we’ve changed, and hopefully, grown.
Thank you for the comment!
I do the same sometimes but with this little collection here I didn’t want to change the poems very much… Some of them were originally written when I was 16 or 15.
It is so cool to see how a writer or any other artist evolved over time…
It’s great to revisit some of our old works Reelika! Most we would have forgotten. Thanks for sharing!
Hank
Thank you for commenting, and yes it’s really cool to find some of your older work and see how you have changed.
I really enjoy the age-old romantic feeling to your poem, Reelika, when one would send letters and never know if they were received, and wait for a love that may not return. It also has an Emily D anguish about it 🤍
Thank you so much, this type of love and tragic romance was something I spent hours on reading.
Some of those tragic style writers were my biggest inspiration in my youth. And I am honoured for the anguish to remind of Emily.
Thank you so much, your comment made me smile really big. Seriously. I think it’s one of my favourites:D.
Maybe I’ve been “way too serious about poetry” too, but I know it has helped me process so much and I’m glad you’ve “got it” too!
Thank you so much and perhaps that “way too serious” is something that every aspiring poet had at one point.
Very nicely done!
Thank you very much! I did love your entry a lot this week too!
I loved both the poems and I think if you hadn’t mentioned which one was written earlier, I would have guessed correctly, for at that age romance and poetry went hand in hand.
They really di, didn’t they?
Thank you so much for the comment!
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