How to write poetry.. Basics?

Clare Hoard: very confusing subject. browse using search engines like google. that could actually help!

Dick Baumgarten: It makes sense to study the forms and styles used by poets across the world to become more familiar with structure, format, rhythm, rhyme and meter along with several other elements used in poetry.A dictionary or a thesaurus is very handy to have. Often, a search for meanings of words can help you take a jump off to another wonderful dimension within your poetry.Choose a subject,commonly known as the ‘Theme’ of the poem, this is the important starting point and central point of your work. What is the poem all about? What are you trying to get across to the world at large, via your poem? Is it a story, an experience, a description of events, or a description of a place?Feel your way through your poem. A poem, no matter how descriptive it may be, is not to be used to state the obvious. We all know that the grass is green, for example. What you n! eed to express in your poem is what you felt when you saw the green grass. Your mood can help to portray your thoughts, ideas and feelings via this poem? Do you want to make it a serious poem, or a funny one, a sarcastic one or an irreverent one? The mood can often help you convey the feelings more effectively.Choose a style of writing the poem from among several. Most modern poets often use the free verse style of poetry. Although, to the beginner, this style may not have a formal structure and sound easy to write in, look closely at the work of popular free verse poets and you will find a basic form lurking somewhere.Finally ask yourself who am I writing for? The audience of the poem can help you choose the language, the style and the words to be used in your piece. Experiment with forms and words to find your unique ‘Voice’ as a poet.Read out your poem to a few of your friends to get their feelings.Good writing....Show more

Elvie Drumgoole: Neko-AWESOME poem

Tomeka Hameen: There are many different types of poetry. ! Most people think that the lines have to rhyme, but they don't (this is only one form of poetry). Basically, you just think of something to write about, and then let the words flow out. For example:AppleThe apple sits on the desk.A gleam rests on its surface,The result of the sunlightStreaming through a nearby window.When eaten,Apples can be juicy,Crisp,Ripe.But one thing's for sure...That apple won't go uneatenFor much longer.It can be something as simple as that. You don't even have to use capital letters if you don't want to. Just let the words come out....Show more

Travis Sherrock: I am glad to see another author in the making so I hope I help. The basics for many writers of poetry is to put your soul and life into your writing. Sure it has to rhyme at the end but there is many styles to write. personally I write about my life and let it flow free without restricting it, unlike many types of poetry. Here I'll put on one of my poems and hope you can use it to ! help yourself. Good luck. P.S. please don't copy it. -Neko FIRSTShe was my first true friend,Always with me till the end,We always laughed all day,Always children at play,She was the one who mended my heart,Made my twisted life seem like art,I had her back for every fight,I washer hero a so-called knight,Yet she was my strength and might,She was my first exhilarating crush,Each day with her was a rush,Her hair swayed in the breeze,As we climbed and played in the trees,Her eyes sparkled like shining silver,Her stare alone would make me shiver,The air around her smelled of sweet fruit,But she was a harsh angel and I was a soft brute,Two misfits finding feelings of another kind,Feelings not to be understood or confined,She was my first painful good-bye,It felt like falling out of the sky,The racking regret fills me from inside,It felt like part of me has died,Yet she is a constant part of me,The only part of me that is free....Show more

Hermina Ketring: You ne! ed an emotion that will actually come through, and if there is none, no! body will feel anything. Then just write out in prose how you feel. Try to find a metaphor for it. Then break it up into what might be stanzas, which may not be paragraphs; see if you can break the paragraph stanzas up into lines usually at prepositional phrases; try to put in a meter by finding synonyms; try to make each line with the same feet; try to rhyme the ends of each line along and replace words for alliterations or other devices....Show more

Arlen Lopiccalo: trackgirl...-THX

Hyman Coren: I endorse -- James Wright (Above the River), -- Mark Strand (Reasons For Moving -- one in all my all-time favourite poems), --Rita Dove (On the Bus With Rosa Parks), --Sharon Olds (she may also be rather particular however could be very all the way down to earth; her ebook is The Gold Cell), -- Richard Hugo (The Triggering Town, Making Certain It Goes On), -- Fred Chappell and others. These are all trendy American poets. Paul Fussell has a ebook on poetic meter; he is ! rather a well creator and educational. I consider he's a professor in Pennsylvania. I'd additionally endorse Writing Down the Bones by way of Natalie Goldberg, as good as Bird By Bird by way of Anne Lamott. Hope this is helping. I did my MA in English inventive writing and my thesis used to be a ebook of my possess poetry. I'm a instructor and feature been for 14 years however I nonetheless write poetry and really once in a while a brief tale. Hope this is helping. Cheers, K...Show more

Carli Watterson: From the heart is not at all a bad place to start.Take care,Gary.