I wish I could.....

You know, some times I wish I could do a lot of things - I mean - who wouldn't want to ride in a hot air balloon over the continent of Africa, or go to a Patty Griffin concert and smoke shisha, or live in the mountains as a hippy for a few years - all with satellite internet so I can blog every day! Or a whole lot of other things! But today, I wish I could write poetry. I mean, I don't want to be a "Sylvia Plath" or a "Lord Byron" but I would love to be able to write what I am feeling in a way that doesn't try to explain it but lets other people feel it. I mean I read someone say once that they feel like and empty hallway - and I thought yeah! I feel that too....All the possibilities lie ahead of me - and I sit in an empty hallway until they actualize - But just saying "an empty hallway" is so beautiful! It explains it without explaining it! I wish I could do that ....But when I think of what I would say it is.... So silly and just so self explanatory it feels like I bought the metaphor in the cracker Jack box! I mean - part of why poetry is so great is that it expresses it in a way that you would not have thought about otherwise. So, I will just keep reading poetry and then maybe I will "get it" and be able to write and express myself that way!