Poésies to Puisi.

Normally or sometimes, poems are words that expresses the writer's thought. Although not necessarilly that way. Poems can also be "meaningless", in a sense they don't relate to the writer itself. Only his or her thoughts are constructed in words that people call it aesthethic.

I started to write poems when I was 9, it was in a French school and there was an Irish teacher that taught us on how to write one. And so my first poem was written. So far as I could remember, it's about memories and playground. I never really ventured into other themes until I was 15. Memories were the main theme, because that was the only thing that connects the writer and itself.
Actually it's the other way round. Thoughts and imaginations are limitless. They are not profound in one singular entity.
Meaning, it's like writing a story. I can just write anything.

Nowadays in social media, people thought "poetry writing" is a passive emotional writing. The colors portrayed in every poems are thought to be darker in color and sometimes glorifying death. While it could be that one or any way it wanted, but poems aren't meant to be that way. They can just be anything. Gore, scary to happiness and overwhelming expression.

I am surprised when I look at poems on bookstore that only has one stanza and one line.
And sometimes it is just blank in a page which the writer purposely put there. While it may be artistic thing to do it, I feel it's deragatory for readers which bought the book. True, anything can be an art but at the same time it puts the readers that the writer does not put any effort into their writings.

In other words, there's no "soul" in the writer's writing.

When someone cooks for you, like your mother, you can feel her "love" in the cooking. Of course, although it may not come to your tastebuds, you can feel it in some sort of metaphysically "it is there". It's not metaphor. It's real, it's there. But we can't physically see it. Can you see what love is like physically? No. There's no form of it but you can feel its
presence. It is there. Similarly like writing. You can feel whether it is there or not.

Sometimes, certain writings are just pure motivations. They are just to keep you going on in your life, love, breakup & that's where people found hope. It's certainly not wrong. But when you write motivations or advices, you have to be careful. While motivations could be good, it also could give a wrong idea about hope, leading them more into some places that they don't deserve. The idea of suicide and hell, running away from a miserable life by taking refuge into drugs. These are the things you don't want people to get there.

I admit that sometimes I am bold and pushy. Because in some cases we are dormant about what we can really do for ourselves. And we doubt into certain things. That's not the case when you're in a crisis. Then some people ran away from their problems and they found certain places that they think "oh this place is fun, I should stay here longer then".

People don't want to someone to tell them that they are wrong and so on.

When you force people to fit in a mould where they don't fit, they won't stay there long. They needed to submit or accept that they belong there. For a good reason of course.

Whatever people wrote, it should be wise and thought throughly.

Asyraf Amir. 20160816.