Question: Jewel, will you publish another book of poetry soon?
Jewel?s Answer: My poetry has sorta been on hold. I wrote a book of love poems, but I got cold feet once I started gathering them together. I don't know. I used to believe that writing was the only sacred thing; all experience was to be pillaged and laid before the feet of Poetry. Each kiss or heartbreak was just fuel for fire. Faces and places were all to be sacrificed at the altar of the written word....but lately I don't know. I guess it?s because I'm in love with a person more than I'm in love with writing about a person. So I've written all this poetry for Ty, but once I thought about the whole world seeing it, I didn't feel ready. Maybe one day, but right now I feel like keeping it for him. And I haven't really written poetry about anything else. But as I've been writing songs, I feel like my lyrics are really hitting a stride, so the poetry is all coming out of me that way right now.
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