My Poetry | Elliott Rodgers

Poetry

June 12th 2010 By: Elliott Tags: Poetry Bit.ly URL: http://bit.ly/xEorRu

I’ve written poetry since I was about fourteen, a lot of the time to express feelings, some good and bad. Looking back over twenty years after I wrote some of my poems I understand it was a release, a way of dealing with emotions I was struggling with. I wonder now if maybe I would have dealt with them better if I’d had something resembling a stable home life, a more regular childhood and a supportive family.

Poems will often float around in my head, words and phrases slowly forming before being completed (eg: Stolen Kiss), others I wrote as fast as the words could hit the page (eg: When). Sometimes a single phrase or thought will act as a seed and produce a poem other times I just write words and phrases as they come into my head and they form poems, almost coming to life.

My favourite poems are: Stolen Kiss, Twisted Soul, When, Goodbye Forever and Your Choice.

I wrote the poen When aged nineteen, whereas Stolen Kiss was written in my early thirties and both still seem as intense and relevant as the day I wrote them. Goodbye Forever describes the bittersweet memories and the way that seeing some special places can bring those memories flooding back again, some of those special places I have never had the confidence to return to even years and years later. A while after writing Goodbye Forever I discovered that Keith Urban described it w-a-a-y better than I ever could in his completely amazing song You’ll Think Of Me. The peom Your Choice, sums up that bitter anger at having your heart broken, dreams cast aside and discovering the person you loved betrayed you.

After careful thought I decided that I wasn’t going to share to much detail on what inspired the poems since ~~some~~ most of the people they were written about aren’t in my life anymore. People close to me can probably work out who most of the poems where written about, some of the titles/contents do make it obvious who they were about (My Baby, My Sister, Miles Don’t Matter).

Most poems on this page tells it’s own individual story about something that happened in my life, sometimes breathtakingly sweet, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes sadness and heartbreak. Please ask before you use ANY of my poems, there will be a small fee for commercial use. The poem My Sister is NOT to be used elsewhere. The poem In Memory of Morgan requires an honour donation to a dog shelter or similar if you use it.

Can’t find a poem?

I’ve retired a few poems when the new site was launched (How Can You Tell Me?, I Need Someone, In The Still Of The Night, Jenny, That Feeling Again and Who Is It?). They may come back later.

List of Poems

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