How do you start writing poetry?
First of all, with poetry there is really no best way. Yes, you could start reading poetry from the greats and from different eras and learn all there is to learn about the technical aspects of stanzas and line lengths and metaphors and what not. Yes, you could go about it like anybody starts learning a new thing, just like a subject at school.However, if you read up on most famous writers and poets, very few actually bothered learning the technical intricacy of writing. Grammar matters of course, and so does your average reading list because what you read eventually forms the linguistic pattern that will decide what you write. Knowing to write well is perhaps the first basic step in writing poetry. Having mastered sentence structures and having developed a decent sized vocabulary, the next step would probably be rather simple. It is just about feeling. FEEL, not the pinterest version of photoshopped feelings but real , concrete yet indescribable feelings. Look at the world as if you loved it desperately or hated it with a vengeance. Extreme emotions are often what trigger poetic thought because then symbolism, similes and personification become not mere definitions but names you can give to the words your mind throws up in the upheaval of an emotional experience. Fall in love and be rejected. Use your disappointments, even your joys. Poetry is after all symbolic writing that aims to deliver the emotional content of the Poet's thoughts on something particular. If you can feel, you can see the underlying subtleties in something ordinarily banal. Now take those feelings and start writing about them. When you can make these writings rhyme or view your musings not as the written word but as art that you have created without caring for its acceptance or recognition, then perhaps you would be well on your way to becoming that dying rebel called the poet.
Why can't I write anything at the moment?
There is a spot near your heart that generates poetry. It's where you heart gets a chance to moderate the words your mind generates, and infuses them with the emotion that makes your poems special -- I know because it works this way for every poet. Right now, when you call this spot and ask it to help create some poetry, you're getting a busy signal -- because your heart is busy trying to process your grief. If this DID NOT happen, you wouldn't be the caring poetic person you are (you obviously care, because you want to honour him). I could say wait, but your need to honour may be urgent. If so, don't try to remember the friend you have just lost. Remember the friend you first met, and grew to know, and follow the special moments you have known (just avoid thinking of him now, because this moment is blocking you). Write what you want, but consider something piercingly brief if you think you may be asked to read it aloud. Condolences.
Does poetry mean anything to you?
Poetry has been considered the language of magic, the language of love, the language of the heart. Poetry, when written well, and read with intent add a completely new dimension to writing. Meter can be hypnotic. Rhyme adds a sense of anticipation that can be either confirmed or derailed by the poet. While prose can take a person somewhere, poetry can take a person to multiple places at once. The rythm can foretell a part of the story not yet told. Music takes poetry and removes a bit of the subtlety from it on the one hand, but if well done, adds a new dimension. Still, poetry can be crass, crude, engaging, pensive, obscure and more. Some of it means a great deal to me. The poetry of my religion touches me deeply. I love Robert Frost. I love Lewis Carrol, I love such peices as "The Highwayman", "Dark Night of the Soul", and the more whimsical, such as "Jabberwocky" or "The Cremation of Sam Magee". I suppose that it's a big part of my life. --Dee
What do you like about writing poetry?
I don’t like rules.Even my prose on Quora largely ignores them.I can write a paragraph like that andWhile it might not be a good idea,I can do it.That’s the fun of poetry. Poetry is play. It’s the freedom to put words in any order and use any punctuation and say anything you want, with no rules.I hate essays because “MLA” and “proper paragraph formatting” and I especially loathe theses.I can write essays. I’d say I’m pretty good at them.But thisthisthis is much more fun.I wrote this today while trying to work:I’m sitting in the quiet library and the guy on the other side of the wall and I are breathing in sync.I’m sitting in the virology section so I assume he’s a science major.Except he probably assumes the same about me except I was just looking for the nearest empty table.I suppose, he too.He’s probably an art ed grad student with a girlfriend of 3 years and plans of becoming a professor one day.Or something.I could make up a million stories about him and they’d all be lies—I suppose, me too.I put in noise-cancelling earbuds but I can still hear his breaths rattling in the back of my mindSo stable. So predictable.So secure.He sighs and the rhythm shattersI breathe on his off beats even as he breathes on mine.Euphony. Cacophony.I’m sitting in the quiet library and all I can hear is the breathing of a man on the other side of the wallI’ve never seen his face but for a moment I glimpsed the inside of his lungsAnd it was good.Took me all of a minute to write, and I had a great time doing it.I like that poetry asks no more of me than to describe my heart in the best way I know how.I see other people stressing the technical parts of poetry and while they’re important, they’re not.Just, write.If you like it, it’s poetry. If you don’t, it’s a draft.Don’t get me wrong—studying poetry never hurts. Understanding how poems are built is a great thing.But what’s most important is just getting it out there. And I like that.Especially with poems, because they’re quick. I can get it done and go.That’s what I like.
What is the best way to write a poetic duet?
Yes, it was fun. From beginning to end we had no other dialog than the two stanzas per email.. It was for fun, because Sin had mad the comment that we might be able to communicate with just rhyme, on one of my poetic answers to her question. I decided to try, and this was the result. My co-author is a very talented lady who send back as good or better than she received. I applaud her vigorously.
Do you like writing stories or poems?
That's a tricky question.In my personal opinion, writing stories is like showing someone what you dream of, what you imagine, yet leaving them to imagine what's happening.Poetry is like letting them imagine by giving a faint outline of what you want to say. Poetry is all about reading between the lines and concentrating on the pauses.But when it comes to stories and poetry, writing poems is harder and more challenging. You need to tell others what you feel, in limited words.I like writing poems. It brings out the feeling and emotions that have been locked up deep inside of my heart.
How can i become better at writing poetry?
expand vocabulary not all poems need rhyming in fact thats a type of poem free verse could you give me feedback on mine here it is/ im capativated by the essence of beauty radiating off her skin such a beautiful site its a intense struggle to simply look the other way trapped in a dormant state of mind as i gaze upon her long luscious envirgorating hair i morph into the form that of a statue as she stares with those deep penetrating eyes i could stare right back into them for hours at a time her sweet innocent laughter illuminates my soul engulfing me with sheer joy she travels with such grace and such flair like an angel without wings her lips are so delicatley soft like a fluffy white cloud a mere hug from her instansouly erases the negative emotions that the day has inflicted as if an ivisible needle injected me as she spreads harmony where ever she may walk seeing her pearly white teeth causes me to smile as well as she draws closer my heart flutters as her seductive lips meet my face i change into a diffrent color known as red her voice omits sex appeal drawing me to her as moth to a flame i feel at ease as she fondles my muscled heart i wish to never leave her presence i wish to be confined to her love for all eternity
If you were a poet, what would you write about?
I am poet(amature) and I have written motivational poem, love poem etc. By it I could transform my feelings into words..Following are some of my poems…This is my one of english poem..And it is dedicated to special woman in our life..Oh girl you are beautiful !You are a little lazy.You are a little clumsy.You are a little shy.You are a little crazy.Oh Girl, but that way you are beautiful!You don't have a white skin.You don't have a pretty face.You don't have a silky hair.You don't have a super style.You don't have a good look.Oh Girl, but without all these, you are beautiful!Sometimes you angry on me.Sometimes you fight with me.Sometimes you are difficult to handle.Sometimes you are just like a child.Oh Girl, but with all your silliness, you are beautiful!Sometimes you become a girl.Sometimes you become a woman.Sometimes you become a mother.Sometimes you become a daughter.Oh Girl, but whatever you become, you are beautiful!You are possessive.You are talkative.You are argumentative.You are impulsive.Oh Girl, but you are beautiful!When you laugh.When you cry.When you are sad.When you are happy.Oh Girl, but every time you are beautiful!In all your way.In all your action.In all your habits.In all your wisdom.Oh my Girl, whoever you are, you are just beautiful!I am also sharing one of my hindi motivational poem.. Here it is..कुछ सवालो के जवाब नही होतेहर मूरत मैं भगवान नही होतेलडना है, तो सर उठा, सर कटा,सर झुका के संग्राम नही होते।पर्वत की चोटी पे काफिले नही होतेजीत - हार के बिच फांसले नही होतेउठ जा, और प्रहार कर !सही पुरुषार्थ के प्रमाण नही होते।दहाड़े जो चिड़ियाघर मैं, शेर नही होतेरो के भूल जाये, बैर नही होतेआग बन के धरा पे फैल,मौत के आने के पैगाम नही होते।टूटे हुए तारे अभिलाषा नही देतेऊँचे बादल बरसात नही देतेमिटाना है अँधेरा, तो खुद को जला,बुझे हुए दिये उजाला नही देते।You can read my poems here, @My heart pours here.!Thank you..
Do girls like it for their bf to write them a poem?
I once wrote some poems for my ex, and she seems to like them, but recently (long after we had broken up) said something like, "Aww, remember how you used to write me poems? Well... that was so sweet, but, you know..." I was like, "What?" She was like, "Well, sort of... gay? I mean, I liked them, but still." Well, I'm in a more serious relationship now, where we really care for each other, and this person I'm with now means so much to me... I could say what I feel directly, but I want to express to her in a poem just how I think of her... The things I feel when I think of her. That it's not just, "I love you," that it's not just a simple feeling, it's a feeling I feel very deeply and can describe in an infinite number of ways, and so I wrote poems. And she says that me reading a poem to her makes her heart warm and gives her an incredible feeling. So I am happy :) But what is YOUR personal take on if a guy writes you a poem? Too... "gay"... or romantic?