Advice and tips on writing poetry?
A previous question I asked made me realise just how little I actually know about making poetry, it´s format and such. Any advice or pointers to sources would be greatly appreciated. For eg here´s sumin I wrote and I have no idea about what to do with the format and such. The´´poem´ is below Do you hear what I am saying Sharp potent, warm in your mouth but burns down your throat and BANG straight into your stomach. Do you know what I am talking about. Do you know. What I am talking about.Potent, heavy on the mind and heavy on the stomach. If I could open my mouth, I´d breath smoke.Your cold but it warms you up, remedy like, fools your body, eases your mind.Your somebody else now, let it welcome the new baby born that is you into this world.Our baby daughter, born again so she can drink her baby liver to death.Let it commence. Let it happen all over again.It´s so warm it cuddles you around the middle, your face all flushed, buring red because the furnace inside isn´t even real. You get too much love, so your double bent, haggerded and disjointed over the toilet bowl, fingers thrusting down your neck, ******* yourself with your own fist to ease the retching. You vomit what seems like food and blood and you think ´maybe if I vomit enough, Iĺl vomit my soul out and flush it down the toilet. Then I could really sink to the depths and never claim guilt´.Your still warm, its still inside you....it is you, you and your poison are 1 and the same. So you lay your sleepy head and fall out of pain.Waking up is the worst, never before will you wish you´d just stop breathing in your sleep. You think ´This is just it leaving me´ but it´s not, it´s tucked away in some little corner of your mind and blows you when you least expect it, sucking at the breast of your mind, turning you on, turing you out, turing you in on yourself.Your fuct Charlie M
Any advice for a young poet?
Hah, how young? Write in different places, go for walks and write about one feature of what you see. Write about one thing, and write for fifteen minutes straight without stopping or editing. Look at how things reveal themselves, as you explore the landscape. Big things and small. Run a little bit and feel the air flowing. Flow is very important. Everything has a flow. air, water, light, people, cars, hot and cold.
Any advice on writing a love letter/poem?
Seems to be a pretty interesting question :)Make it cool, not too many sentimentsGirls love nonchalant attitude with dozes of humourGirls love a little bit adventuremake it easier to say why you got attractedwhat makes your wish the best choice!They love little bit frankness yet not too muchThey love stylish way of delivering yet not a hypeThey love a bit of smart approach with creative expressionsAny girl would love the way you make them feelmore than words and actions the way you touch their emotional self is the key!Check out my book for some cool love poems and of course lovely photos of natureFalling in Love or Loving in Fall? - Kindle edition by G. Shrinithyaa. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.The below answer would also be of some helpShrinithyaa Gopalan's answer to To propose to my girlfriend, is it necessary to kneel before her?
What advice about writing poetry would you have given your younger self?
I would tell my younger self all kinds of stuff about poetry. I don’t know if she’d listen, though. Maybe?I’d tell her to think about why she’s trying to be so profound and serious. Spending so much time trying to uncover or describe the mysteries of life and emotion is what people of that age do a lot, and it can be interesting and enlightening, but as far as poetry goes it’s not going to come out the way my younger self would want it to. Because her feelings are overwrought, her poetry about feelings will also be overwrought (times a million—but I’d probably keep that amplification to myself because it’s a bit cruel to point that out.)I’d ask her to think about what experiences have had the most effect on her, and ask her why she’s not writing about those things.I’d remind her that writing about feelings a lot is grand, but that a lot of the poems that she loves the most don’t describe feelings directly. They reveal feelings through the real world, through the people around the poet, through nature, through the senses, etc.I’d suggest that maybe she could try, instead of filtering her feelings through philosophy, to express herself by opening a window into her life in a more direct way.I’d ask her if she might think about writing some poems that capture a moment or a fleeting impression to help hone her skills for the longer stuff.I’d remind her that expression of the fantastic is always richer and more elegant when it’s founded in the real things in our universe that are as unbelievable as any myth. After all, fantasy poetry founded in the vast diversity of international human experience rings truer because people instinctively sense the honesty of our beautiful and heartbreaking reality within the fantasy.And finally I’d ask her if, maybe, she might get some really good stuff by looking around her and really observing the world, as opposed to thinking about what she imagines the world is.
A poem for an advice card...pleash help finish it...?
THANKS FOR THE ANSWERS SO FAR!! I think maybe I need to clarify.... the cards will be blank for each guest to write their own advice or wish for baby & mommy. I wanted to have the directions printed on the cards in form of a poem. I thought it would be kind of a neat idea, something I haven't seen before.... So, I really don't need a poem for mommy or baby, I need a poem for the guests as to let them know what the card is for.... AGAIN, THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTIONS SO FAR, THEY ARE ALL PRETTY GOOD IN AND OF THEM SELVES...
What are some tips for writing an epic poem?
Be aware that any and every overt metric device you establish is going to be with you for a very, very long time. Whether it's framing couplets or a four-foot refrain, if you do it and make it apparent that you're doing it and doing it on purpose, you have to keep doing it.Little devices that seemed cute 60 pages ago will haunt you like the ravenous ghosts of itinerant children. That nested refrain that seemed so damn clever may well be the death of you.There's a reason Milton twisted the frame of the English language so monstrously we named a syntactical inversion after him: He had to.
What would advice on poem writing! Pleasse help!you like to ask?
Okay so im barely passing my English class and this is my last resort! I had tutoring, after school help, one on one time with my teacher, I just cant write a poem!Its like 50% of my grade! Im not saying to write my poem, Im asking if some1 could help/ refrazeing. I need something that has like"freedom dont comefree, country life, respect myself, and life! If someone could help me that would be GREAT! Or if someone has a somewhat poem like this please post!
Whos good at poetry? i need advice plz?
This living hand -short pause- now warm and capable (w/ one breath) short pause Of earnest grasping, -short pause- would, if it were cold (w/ one breath) short pause And in the icy silence of the tomb, (you should put some "dramatic" tone, not too much though... as if you re saying sth sad ---- pause) So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights (normal reading but w/ the above tone ---- pause) That thou -short pause- would[st] wish thine own heart -short pause- dry of blood -short pause- (a little louder)So in my veins red life might stream again,(normal voice, same tone as above---pause) (lowering your voice- sad voice) And thou be conscience calm’d -short pause- – (a little louder)see, here it is - -pause- (lowering your voice) I hold it towards you.(say this as you re talking to someone in real life- it would be nice if you made a gesture like showing sth..you know like, here it is what im talking about) Pauses are not big ones, it's just the normal ones like when an actor is making a speech, an introduction to a story and he stops every now and then. Im sure you ve heard or seen what im talking about cause im not that good in descriptions... Short pauses mean just to take a breath and then continue. It's nice to have a contact w/ the audience while to say the poem too! Hope I helped!! Nice poem btw!! :)
What advice will you give to someone who has to start writing (may it be poems or anything else) which will encourage him/her?
I write poems in English and Hindi, but my boyfriend had never attempted at writing poems.He says he has overwhelming feelings but he can't put it down on paper as I do.He says everyone has feelings and experiences but very few can pen it down beautifully in a poem.So one day he was talking to me over phone. I realized his heart felt heavy. I could clearly see he wanted to give vent to his feelings.I suggested, “Whenever I'am stuck in a position as yours, I always try to give it a vent on paper. And it feels better. You want to try?”He first hesitated but agreed.He told me what he wanted to write about. As he started off I helped him with the phrasing of the first line.Then he said it's getting difficult. He doesn't know what to write next, or how to continue.He seemed to drop the idea. Even I didn't press him, just asked him to try when he feels like.The next hour he was there with his first poem.He had whatsapped me, “It may look childish but please don't laugh.”And guess what, I found it wonderful for a first time attempt. I was awestruck reading that.I hadn't expected such a writing from him. My bad.So my purpose of telling this is-Try writing for the first time when you're most inspired.Or want to give vent.Sit with a pen and paper and start.Don't leave it unfinished.To write well start reading.Don't prejudge your capabilities.Just write, however silly it might be. You will gain confidence.Keep writing.Start with whatever you feel comfortable with. Be it a poem, an article. Just start with penning down few sentences.You'll feel much better. You'll feel happy once you complete writing what you wanted to.You'll forever have a companion to talk to who will not judge you. It's the blank paper. :-)