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The perspective you write your poem from can dramatically change its meaning and impact on the reader. It was hugely confusing to read, but once I omitted the unnecessary narrator and wrote it in first person from the perspective of the daughter, it started to make more sense. Voice is important in everything that you write, and poetry is no different. You could write something in a colloquial way, an old-fashioned way, a funny way, a serious way, a sarcastic way…in any way you like.

A lot of classic and well-known poems do. Grammar is incredibly important in poetry. Its absence can tell you as much as its usage.

This allows you to manipulate it to your advantage and even alter the meaning of your poem. You may find that your poem naturally fits into or suits a particular rhythm. Free verse gives you the chance to do whatever you like with your poetry. Some find it exhiliarating, others terrifying.

Poetry allows us to express ourselves in a way that combines imagery with words. Had to. What ingredients do you think are essential to write a poem?

Are there any rules you feel apply to every poem? Enjoy this post? Why not check out the rest of the writing ingredients series? Fiction 2. Screenplay 4. Stage plays 5. Copy 6. Kristina Adams is an author of fiction and nonfiction, writing and productivity blogger, and occasional poet.

I see an engaging list of sensory details. What new insight does the speaker gain, after gazing at the sky and doing all the comparisons listed in the poem? But this is really a nice try of yours! Sounds very magical to me. Love it btw! Ive been writing poems for a while now. My fathers death brought out feelings I could best express through poems. When I saw you last, I looked in your eyes. You looked so lost and full of fear. All I could do, was wipe my tears.

I knew it was over, you felt so alone. I did what I could for your journey home. I stayed by your side, all through the night. Never leaving you, holding you tight. My memories of you, are close to my heart. Dan, I would say that poems people write in order to express their feelings and to honor and commemorate a specific event in their life fall into the category of doing whatever feels right to you.

This handout is focused specifically on high school poetry, but the general idea addresses using very personal poems in a writing workshop. Rather than TELLING me that your memories are close to your heart, can you instead spend time bringing me along with you as you relive just one really significant event? Think of how a movie really comes to life when the camera zooms in on a person talking about a memory, and then suddenly we see a younger version of that character living through the events they remembered.

Sometimes movies might have the older version of the character there in the scene, commenting, like Scrooge does during the flashbacks the Ghost of Christmas Past shows him.

Poems do something different — they use very specific sensory details in order to conjure up emotions in the reader. But listing the emotions you felt is not the same thing as giving your reader a reason to feel something.

This handout on Showing vs. How many modern works use rhyming couplets? Was your baby-blue-eyed father a pound professional wrestler? Were his eyes important to his profession, or to do something he loved to do, or something he did selflessly and reliably for the family?

Vacuuming the stairs, watering the lawn, that sort of thing. Thank you for your input Dennis. This is why I put it out there. I wanted to know how and what I can improve on. Again, thank you! I just found your tips practical for the high school students. I happened to write few poems without knowing how to write..

Thank you for all d informations.. It is very well written article and if followed the correct steps as described above. It can help improve the poetry writing skills a lot. Putting words on paper allows you organize your thoughts.

Reason 2. By writing a poem, you can show off your unique perspective on life. Reason 3. Poetry is a powerful form of self-expression. Reason 4. Writing can help you cope. Instead of keeping your emotions bottled up, writing helps you get them out into the open and deal with them. If you are reading poetry regularly, if you are studying it diligently and passionately, and if you are applying what you have learned to your own craft, then there is a very good chance that you are writing good poems.

We hope that you are also submitting your poems for publication! Posting on Facebook,handing them out in town,mailing them to friends,and family,news stations,they love all ,show me love,all ages,all races,its ministers to those going through,impacting the world.

They are grateful,and love my passion,and concerns for mankind! I know some people absolutely dislike it, but I like it. My younger sister, who is nine, is very good at it and her poetry always leaves people intrigued at what they just heard. Writing has always been a passion of mine, since I can just pour out all of my feelings and feel very satisfied and content afterwards.

There is no absolute standard that qualifies a poem. No one can take that away from you, and that is what makes your poem unique. Poetry, like ballet requires training and discipline. Good poetry like accomplished ballet looks easy and light. Thank you Anonymous II- this crystallizes a significant point. What poetry is not is just writing a rush of words that a mood evoked. Great start for inspiration- but there is meter, rhythm, voice , diction, and most of all discipline.

Answering your question. I could vividly remember the reactions from my three different performances. Another boy came up to me and said he felt like he was the character in the poem.

When I look back, I felt that was one of the poems that was badly constructed but it touched the audience. Oh and one more in Sarawak, few people came up to me to ask for a copy of the poem. These four poems were not my best writing in the intellectual sense but they resonate with people. Not true. Whatever I say is poetry is poetry to me. Whatever I say is good poetry is good poetry to me.

No one can say that something is not a poem as an absolute fact. No one can say that something is not a good poem as an absolute fact. If someone considers poetry and a good poem only to come from some type of honed skill or craft, then absolutely, that is how it is defined for them. However, to even think of dictating that to the rest of the world is silly at best and highly arrogant at worst.

Hard work? I will never qualify art or artists in some formal institutional way. As if only they can truly make art or art that has any social, monetary or artistic value. Found art, art made on the spur, on a whim, from a sudden need to make it, by a person who never made any art before is often enough meaningful to many people for so many different reasons. The only criteria for me is how it makes me think and feel.

If I connect with it on any level. I would never define what art is for anyone else. I would only compare reactions, discuss any topics the art inspires in me and others around me, say whether I like it or not for only myself… you get the picture. Pun intended…. For me people like glork are wrong. Poetry is, for me, whatever I say it is. There are no universal, set in stone rules for everyone about any form of art.

Maybe for glork and people who think like glork, but not for me and, I imagine, many others as well. Poetry most certainly is someone writing a rush of words evoked from a mood they are experiencing.

It may not be for some, and I respect that, but please, do not presume to make that true for me. I can only speak for myself when I state that there are absolutely no rules to define absolutely what art is. There are rules that define styles and techniques, to be sure. But there are no rules that can say factually that something is art and something else is not on a universal level. I believe poetry is a personal journey of discovery.

My early poems were really poor but I was proud of my efforts then. For me the basics are the need to write and the creativity to meet the need. And I agree with zeroset about views on a poetry. How could you express the emotions like this?