Words conjure up feelings and feelings conjure up words and memories...
Dying and Living may be the great themes of Easter and Spring but they are also the themes of everyday experience. ... and not necessarily without rich emotions - including humour.
So what could you write about?
If you are not sure where to start, writing about living is easy - life is amazing, inspiring, weird and wonderful stuff. It's in our emotions, in some of our most tingling childhood memories. Life takes more shapes than imagination can invent.
But there's much to write about dying too - whether light hearted or much deeper. What about the life and death of a bubble? Letters to your snowman as he melts away? Or tackle the big themes - the hole left when someone leaves, or a friend or relation is never seen again.
The great thing about poetry is that it takes a few lines, a handful of images and creates a world vivid enough that someone else might say 'I know EXACTLY what they mean'. It's like communicating in pictures but the pictures are made of words. It is one of the deepest and briefest ways we can communicate.
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