Poem writing strategies

Poetry is a feeling, you write about feelings, you express them, and they tellyou when you are done. you feel your rythem start to end. and some times thats just because of a hand cramp but you'll know.

i dont believe that it is possible to write without some kind of emotions. even the stupidest poems came from somewhere, and had something attached to them. but the best ones are the ones that you can feel, right along as you read them. you can sence what the writer senced, and put yourself there.

if you want help with your poetry, my best advice is to read poetry. my boyfriend send me his to crtique, and he does the same with mind (its the ones about him i post on this site). and reading his helps open new ideas for me. I also like E. E. Cummings, and Whitmans. as they both inspire me. you can find thoes auther by useing any search engin on line. Also you can find books at your library that teach you how to "write a poem". But poetry is an art... there is no set form. free verse wasent even invented until the civil war, and poetry was around for much long then that, as it was the first written parts of our culture.

that's about all the help i can give... sorry...
~Blackrose

That is true, but still it is amazing how someone could put a beat or a rythem into their poem! yes poetry comes from the heart, but if you look at it deeper you can learn so much more! particularly about hidden messages... The more modren poets dont do it so much, infact i think Robert Frost is the most modren to actualy have a double meaning in most of his poems. Sylvia Plath, and Ann Sexton are two recent poets i read, both ended up commiting suicide however, and there poems are mostly on the brink of disaster (i mean they potray themselfs is if they are). But i love the old Poets the most, the pomes by Poe, and EE Cummings, and so many more. it is just amazing when you realize what they are doing, and then when you try to do it how hard it is, i mean have you ever wrote a poem in iamb?? its not easey!

~Breeze