Good Poetry

When writing good poetry, please, consider the following:

•Never let poetry scare you because it is all about rhymes.

—This is not true poetry uses free verse as well; let your poetry be as free as your ideas and pen.

•Try to avoid cliches. Cliches such as roses are red and violets are blue are so overused.

— They are unhealthy to any poet just as sugar in our diets; let your poetry be about subjects no one has ever talked about or describe something as people have not seen it yet.

•Let your poetry have a heart.

—Good poetry always, ALWAYS, has to have heart and passion. Let your heart be the guide and your brain the writer.

•Make your poetry be long and fruitful.

—Always try to set a goal to yourself about how far you are going to write. Make this a habit, and you'll find yourself writing essays about love and the human condition. If your poems are meant to be short please re-read the previous suggestion.

•Don't know what to write?

—Write about any moment, any feeling, rain, clouds, the girl or boy sitting next to you, their actions, your crush, the beauty of someone, beauty itself, the universe, your vision of the world. Poetry is about anything not just lovers and love.

•Listen to music when planning to write.

—When writing something new, listen to soothing music. I listen to Bear's Den, Deep Forest, Classical music, etc.

•When writing good poetry it doesn't have to be in a poem's format; it can be a paragraph or just as this format, a poem about how to write good poetry.

•Be yourself, get inspired by others.

DA 2015