Patterns Of People Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Noticing patterns of other people, their idiosyncrasies
and gestures, finding it very interesting, reading
other's body language.

Knowing intuitively how they're feeling and what their
thoughts are like, an important way to find out and
write into poetry, enlightening and enriching all of it.

Finding an intense understanding in life through this
gift of mine, everything coming clearly into this mind
and heart, enabling me to write thoroughly of what goes
on around me.

Environment and relationships with others at times getting
me in trouble, because even if something was not written
for a particular person, someone reading it recognizes
themselves in a poem and gets angry at me for writing about
them.

Not realizing it's not about them - that all human beings
have these self-same feelings in life at one time or an-
other, yet they yell at me for writing about them.

Some people will never understand the basics of poetry,
and that's okay, I will just continue to write it.