YOU’VE BEEN SINGING IT ALL ALONG

You don’t have to call yourself a poetry lover to connect with it. In fact, many people who say they “don’t do poetry” already do, just not on the page.

Think about it: you’re driving, or walking, or sitting on the bus. A song comes on. The lyrics kick in, and suddenly you’re singing along, perhaps because it’s catchy, but maybe because it’s true, it’s you!. It captures something you’ve felt or are feeling deeply. That’s poetry, just set to music.

FIGURING IT OUT

I think that happens a lot when we’re younger and still shaping our identities. Music becomes a mirror and a compass, helping us make sense of our feelings. Lyrics that capture confusion, rebellion, heartbreak, or hope feel like they get it when no one else does.

The teenage brain is wired for emotional highs and lows, and music taps directly into that. A lyric doesn’t need to be complex; if it feels honest, it lands. Plus songs don’t ask questions. They don’t interrupt. They don’t require eye contact. For a teenager navigating anything from anxiety, loneliness, crushes, conflict, or self-doubt, lyrics can feel like a private lifeline, as sort of permission to feel without judgement.

THAT’S WHY POETRY STILL MATTERS

But I digress, so why does poetry on paper feel different to song lyrics?

For many, it goes back to school. Not just the pressure to analyse every line, but the poems themselves. In my day at least, the ones we studied were by celebrated poets, but they often felt worlds apart. Formal, stiff, old-fashioned. We were teenagers trying to make sense of real emotions, and here we were, picking apart Victorian metaphors or war poetry in language that didn’t feel like ours.

It’s no wonder so many of us walked away thinking poetry wasn’t for us, that it belonged in exam halls and dusty textbooks, not in everyday life.

But poetry, in its true form, doesn’t need to be decoded. It’s not about impressing or understanding everything on the first read. It’s about recognising something. a feeling, a moment, a memory, and thinking, ‘Yes, that’s it!’.

GROWING INTO POETRY

As adults we often grow into poetry without realising it. We start to recognise what poetry actually offers. We’ve lived more. We’ve felt more. And with that comes a deeper understanding of the moments, the hard-to-name feelings, and the in-between spaces that poetry so often captures.

Modern poetry rarely asks for acaedemic interpretation. It asks for presence. It speaks in everyday language, with emotional honesty, and creates space for reflection. A single line or a full piece might feel like it was written with your day in mind.

POETRY THAT FEELS LIKE A PAUSE

That’s exactly what Creative Bubbles taps into. Each piece of illustrated poetry is an invitation to take a break, sink into a comfortable chair and lose yourself in the poems. Maybe you’ll see yourself reflected in a line or an image. It’s about feeling something real. The illustration draws you in, the words offer something to hold, or maybe it’s the poem that draws you in and the illustration that offers a little plus.

READ OUR FIRST NEWSLETTER

If you’re curious, we’ve linked our first newsletter that dropped at the beginning of June. We’ve included a flipbook with four new works, poem and illustration side by side, with the lovely sound effects of turning pages. We’ve also included a few suggestions on ways you can explore our Creative Bubbles website.

If our newsletter resonates, you can subscribe here. The next edition will drop at the beginning of August.

COME AND EXPLORE

We’d love you to spend a little time with us. You don’t need to be a poetry person. You just need a moment. Everything we share is free to view. Browse at your own pace, revisit when you feel lke it. Come and see what resonates: creativebubblesbytherandoms.com

And if something has landed with you, a poem, an illustration, a feeling, we’d be so grateful if you left us a review. It helps others find their way to our works too.

You’re always very welcome.