Poetry
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Samples of Monica’s works listed by years: 1995-1997 |
“I wrote my first poem when I was 14 years old but didn’t keep it up for a long time. I started to write more frequently in 1995. I write by inspiration, after having listened to a song that moved me or after having read a book that captured me! But sometimes small, apparently insignificant things inspire me, like a reflection of raindrops in the light of a torch, a thought that came to my mind, a word spoken by some lipse.
Sometimes I like to express dark feelings in my poems, letting the ugliness go, to philosophize about God, the world and me fitting or not into this concepte! When I was 9 years old I realized for the first time the beauty of the world around me. It was in a summer camp when I used to go in my childhood. Back then I couldn’t put this beauty in words, I think I couldn’t even fully grasp it or organize my emotions into thoughts. I just remember standing there, a French love song in the background, and wondering how amazing everything was. I just couldn’t stop wondering about this peculiarity of the world as it appeared to me then. At that moment something moved and changed inside me. And from that moment on I sometimes find myself in those strange, weird, odd, uncommon states of mind when my poetry is born. It’s like hearing a voice from within. Sometimes it comes through, sometimes I inhibit it.” Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive. - Madeleine L’EngleArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton |
