Marriage is What Brings Us Here Together Today

It's officially been a week since my older brother got married, so it seemed fitting that the week following this wonderful event, I would write some love poems. Love poems are one of the first types of poems that came about. Although traditional love poems were written in sonnet form, I decided to forgo sonnets (for now) because of my inability to rhyme. Though, I may come back to that. For now, however, I kept to freestyle. As I've said before, genuineness is incredibly hard to fake (particularity in poetry), so coming into the love poems loomed large. I've never been in love, so I didn't know how to use the words and language of someone who has been. So, the route I decided to take was to come up with two fictional people and act as if I were writing their wedding vows. Even though I've never been in love, creating these people (instead of acting like I had ever been in love), made it so that I felt I could write from a place that was real and honest. I liked how these "vow" poems turned out and I'll definitely re-look at them and make efforts to revise them later on down the road.

My favorite poem that I wrote over the week took a different approach than the ones previously described. For one day, I decided to write a love poem to myself. This poem was the most poetic of everything I wrote this week, and I'm not sure why that is. Maybe it was because I'm not a fictional person, or because I knew how to pick myself up, or, perhaps, because I could venture off from the "vow"-ness of the other poems. Either way, I think it came out beautifully. For me, this poem was incredibly cathartic. Giving myself a little love and attention is certainly something that worked well with creating the type of language and feel that you generally get from love poetry. And, of course, it's never bad to treat yourself once in a while.

Thanks for reading and, please, come back next week where I will be reporting on haiku poetry--short and sweet.

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