Poetry is for Love

Recently I have been struggling with turning my poetry away from being exclusively about women to something to spread my ideals and message about the state of blacks in America and the world. I started reading Langston Hughes Poems a few weeks back and he opened my eyes to something he called. “Negro’s Nature and Love.”

The three things he wrote about. Adopting that I decided that I no longer wanted to write just of love (And why should I when I feel I have so much more to write about) but I also wanted to talk about Negro’s. Since then I have been writing a few pieces about Negro’s and while my first efforts cannot be found here (I have a rule against posting old work) I will be putting more time and concentration to writing about my feelings concerning my race.

As far as writing about Nature is concerned, I think it best to first tackle writing about Negro’s before I move on to nature. I already have much experience in the field of writing about love, my first creative feelings that I put into poems were aimed at a girl who in the end turned out to be manipulative and abusive to my heart. None the less I heaped poetry and attention on her that has been unequaled since.

Honestly writing about love and for the enjoy of women has been very disappointing. I wont go into more detail than just to say women can be very unappreciative of the time an talent it takes to write out ones deepest emotions on paper.