There is an infinite number of topics to write about. A little turn of the head, either to the left or to the right, will guarantee a new set of inspiration. Love, joy, peace, heartaches, loss, friendship, memories—everything can inspire someone to write.
We take photographs and videos of big, important moments and celebrate or cherish them as long as we could. But I find seemingly ordinary moments more inspiring to write about, more fitting to immortalized through poems. These are the moments that we wish we can go back and capture in a photo or a video. These are the moments that we wish we can rewind over and over again, moments we wish we can relive whenever we want to.
For instance, how many of us have captured the first time we meet someone truly important in our lives, like a spouse or a future best friend or a would-be mentor or just about anybody that will later mean anything to us in the future? Rarely are their snaps of such moments, and these are some of the moments you wish you’d remember the rest of your life.
Parents are especially taunted by hundreds of unexpected moments of joy. These are the moments when a little one would blurt out something or do something that truly makes the heart of a parent smile. What parent does not wish for such moments to be immortalized?
Finally, there are those moments that just touch the soul. Sometimes, looking out at a snow-covered yard, you recall a time spent with someone in the past and you ache to relive that moment. Sometimes you touch someone’s hand or look into someone’s eyes and know these are moments you will remember for as long as you live. Sometimes you kiss someone’s lips and know you will forever be haunted by that kiss. Sometimes you whisper goodbye to someone and know, from that moment onward, life will never be the same again.
Don’t we all have moments we wish we can replay forever? Don’t we wish we can capture everything—every smile, every laughter, every tear, every memory—in a photo? Only poems and songs can capture moments long after they are gone. Sometimes words even fail us, but words truly linger long after the moments are over.
