Poetry - Pierre
Poetry - Pierre Kocher
A hard line to walk between cliches and cheesy statements. Still a beautiful thing though… Writing words down that stare right back at you. An instant connection to what is going on below the surface.
Creation and recreation.
You could write a story of 10 pages with 10 different characters whose lives are intertwined and still, it would be a story about you. And the moment you share it with someone else, the story does not belong to yourself anymore, because the interpretation of it varies with the reader’s life events.
We learned about different eras in high school and the connections the people shared in their thinking during these specific time ranges. That is also the reason why the works of known poets and writers have become so famous. The Zeitgeist they shared: Recognized, translated and transported in writing. The joys and troubles of your and neighbouring generations.
You can guess what topic connects everyone since 2019… also that is Zeitgeist.
There is a work by Goethe called “Willkommen und Abschied” (translated: “Welcome and Farewell”) that always gets me. Even though it was written in 1771. It’s a timeless subject to share a special moment with another person no matter how long the interaction is.
I interviewed Tita Polderman (24) on the topic of poetry who is part of a group called “Twentsche Pooweeten”, that aims to publish at least one piece of text per week. She felt that pushing herself to writing texts every week for a few weeks helped her to improve that form of art for herself. On the other hand, she stated that she felt her texts would be better if they come up naturally. To look at it another way, “…there can be comfort in writing someone or just about someone and not have to deal with the immediate reaction from that person”. She joined a course from C.A. Conrad in Norway in 2019 called “Somatic Poetry”, which starts with a ritual like standing in a bucket of water for example. One part of the course was to try to overwrite one’s thinking by just keeping the pen on the paper and not stop the writing process. Doing that can overcome the mental barrier of thinking before writing.
To just write.
Youtube link to one of my recorded poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tbwEcnGkc
Work from Tita Polderman:
She ate her hair
Put dirt in her ears
eyes right in front of her
hand writing words
isolating herself
from the rest of the world
leaving just her fingers
between her mind
and what she wrote
She ate her hair
Put dirt in her ears
While they walked together
sharing a road
She sat isolated
Staring out her window
Skin still on paper
While he put her over his shoulder
making her float
She cut her fingers
and lost her mind
While he started to stumble
His knees getting closer to the ground
From her blood came words
That she couldn’t write
While he dropped down
Them both hitting ground
She ate her hair
Put dirt in her ears
She cut of her fingers
She shed no more tears
For all she could do
Was bleed all she had kept
As poetry is everything
written, spoken and unsaid
Tita Polderman
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