Written Universe Poems explained (1)

Written Universe will be a poetry book I am planning to publish this year (2018). I've been posted teasers of the poems on @writtenuniverse on Instagram. Here are a few of the poems explained as I've never explained any before, I hope you enjoy :) 

This poem is talking about mental illness and the reality of it. Even though it cannot be seen, it doesn't make it less real. Personally, I haven't dealt with mental illness, but I have close friends who have, and making it less of a taboo subject is always a step forward in understanding it.

This poem's inspiration came from the old saying about burning witches to the ground. It's not necessarily to do with witches, and more to do with the feminist movement, or any other movement in fact. Anything that other people put you down for, for not complying with their set ways, and just generally talking about to stand up for what you believe in.

I wanted to use velvet curtains to imply that the people who are against the witches believe to be a higher class of the witches, and look down on them.

This poem is about the love I have for the stars, and always looking up at them when I should probably be asleep, the rest is quite self explanatory.

This poem isn't specially about someone I know, which believe it or not, most of my poems are about no-one.