Writing Tips On..........POETRY

                                                                             
                 37 Ways to Write Poetry

Ways to write good poetry

1. Have your syllables, words and stanzas flow.
2. Start a new stanza when a change of idea, rhythm or rhyme occurs.
3. Create natural rhymes.
4. Do not rhyme.
5. Create emotion.
6. Say nothing more than what needs to be said.
7. Write about life.
8. Write about nature.
9. Give details.
10. Don't be shy to write something personal.
11. Study and imitate other poets.
12. Try different styles.
13. Variate your words.
14. Write about a controversial subject.
15. Tell a story.
16. Write a song.
17. Use a thesaurus.
18. Try different types of meter rhymes.
19. Try different types of vowel rhymes.

Use elements of poetry

20. Use metaphors.
21. Use similes.
22. Use assonance.
23. Use onomatopoeias.
24. Use alliteration.

Use the five senses

25. Create a sense of smell.
26. Create a sense of taste.
27. Create an image.
28. Create sound.
29. Create touch.

Ways to write bad poetry

30. Write about a boy or girl who you like but likes another girl who likes some other guy that likes you but you don't like him.
31. Try to rhyme every sentence.
32. Try to rhyme words just for the sake of rhyming them.
33. Write a three line poem, regardless of how many syllables or words are used, and claim it as Haiku.
34. Write a four line poem and claim it as Haiku.
35. Write a story but make a new line after every sentence.
36. Write a poem and don't create lines or stanzas.
37. Write about an honor you received that no one else cares about.

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Poem: Advice from the Mirror by Lorraine

Mirror, mirror, help me please
I’ll not complain if there are fees
To look again as I once did
To be again a pretty kid

Can you smooth the wrinkles; tint the grey?
Can you trim the fat, so that I may
Charm him again in that same way
As when I sought to win him.

Alas, my friend, the glass replied
I cannot alter what you spy
But do not fear, for can’t you see
This image isn’t you…it’s me!

I can’t reflect a loving heart
And that’s your most important part
Your beauty shines from deep within
And that’s what’s seen by kith and kin.

Author: Lorraine

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. Robert Frost

Poem: Plight of the Outback by Helga

Seven years without a raindrop

Seven years is much too long

Farmer Joe and his sick missus

Had worked hard for just a song.

The wind had taken all the top soil

Spinifex was all that’d grow

How he’d now pay back the bank loan

Farmer Joe, he did not know.

All his lifestock gone to market

Yet the bills came flooding in

If it didn’t rain tomorrow

He’d commit a mortal sin.

Instead of rain the debt collector

In his air conditioned car

Came to the homestead uninvited

Farmer Joe saw it afar.

In the shed and from the rafter

Farmer Joe hung by a rope

‘t was better than the hardship

Without assistance or of hope.

But the banks, now even richer

With the farm that they would own

Didn’t care the farmer’s missus

And baby Jack were now alone.

Author: Helga