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I like to read classic and contemporary poems since I was a student. I had also written a few poems back then during my school days and also during my early working days. 

Most of these poems were humourous poems written to amuse myself. I had also written a few poems as a form of gift to be given to my ex-colleagues during special occasions because I didn’t know what to buy for them during their birthday, farewell day and so on.

I remember one of my ex-colleagues who had received my poem was so impressed and touched that she regarded my written poem was the best gift among the birthday presents that she had had received on that day.

Some of my ex-colleagues were jealous about my poem and they said it sarcastically that their efforts in buying the expensive presents for the birthday girl just cannot match a written poem that didn’t even cost a cent. 🙂 Well, I’m not a cheapo and I think maybe this is called : “A gift from the heart“.

In my opinion, it is not too difficult to write poems if you had the interest in poetry. You can read up more poems whenever you have the opportunity. Meaning to say, the more you read poems, the more you know the technique. The flow of writing just comes in naturally.

I especially like those poems that have an interesting use of rhyme or rhythm in them.

For example :

If I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
If I have moved among my race
And shown no shining morning face;
If beams from happy human eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies,
Books, and my food, and summer rain
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain;
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I have also found some short poems that are written in very few words recently. I think I will share it here in my Blog in the next few Blog posts. Stay tuned.