Challenging Myself by Writing Poems for A Month

I talk about this thing a bit in my previous post before. I make a challenge for myself to improve myself. So, let's talk about it.

So, I make a challenge to write poems for a month. I start this challenge by tweeting it on my Twitter, you can read the thread here.

So, why do I challenge myself? And why must it poem?

I am someone who enjoys writing and pouring my idea and feeling on paper. I feel refreshed by writing it down rather than saying it. Yes, writing is my stress relief.

I used to active blogging until I stopped for 3 years due to some circumstances. I used to write fiction like short stories and fan fiction.

I back writing on my blog again in October 2021. I start to write my daily life in articles or essays.

To be honest, I would love to write a story again like a short story or a short series. However, since I stopped writing for a while, I lost touch with writing stories.

After back writing on the blog again, sometimes I pour my wild and random idea into poems. I just pour all my emotion into my poem so I don't think to write it poetically. I just write what I want and feel.

I'm not a fan of poems. Back in my school day, I was frustrated whenever in Indonesian class I needed to write a poem. It was more challenging to write a poem rather than a story.

I just realized when I checked out my blog I almost write a poem like once a month. I reread some of my old poems on my blog and feel like "Well, my poem seems awful and it makes me cringe."

After thinking about it for a while, I think it's not a bad idea to start learning and improving my poem. I feel maybe I can get more experienced in the writing field too if I can write poems better than my old self.

I start to write poems whenever I get an idea and publish it on this platform. Then tada, here I am now. I challenge myself to write a poem for a month to improve my writing style and vocabulary. Of course, I write in Indonesian since I don't have any confidence to write it in other languages such as Javanese or English.

Preparing to publish a poem today. Photo by restyu.

It's the 6th day of my poem challenge and I am still doing well now. I mean until today, I don't have any problems. I hope this challenge is going smoothly without any problem until the end of August.

I learn a lot until my 6th days of challenges like trying to make rhythm, new vocabulary, and lots of new ideas pouring me. I also read some poems to motivate and learn a lot from them.

I think that's all my update about my challenge. Maybe, I will update the result of my journey in writing poems for a month after finishing this challenge.

—restyu, 060822.