i want to write poems

I want to write more poems. Messy and truthful and meaningful, about love and life and the sometimes-shit of it all.

I read some Charles Bukowski the other day, and today a friend's blog (she's good, check it out). I feel like I'm so confined with what I think a poem should be. Bukowski says in his poem so you want to be a writer? -

"don't do it.

unless it comes out of

your soul like a rocket,

unless being still would

drive you to madness or

suicide or murder,

don't do it.

unless the sun inside you is

burning your gut,

don't do it."

I think I could. I think I maybe could, if I allowed myself to be myself. I'm not cowed, but I'm not bold.