Poetry is a very personal thing. Use inspiration from your life. Something that touched you deeply or a moment that had a profound effect on you. I find poetry that I can emphasise with is good as well.
Your poem posted is a nice read. Clear, illustrative and nice allusion. You speak of layers, talk about your polarity, your sides/layers and how they confront each other. Write about something that just pulls your many sides apart.
Or how they pull you together to make the ever evolving new you.
How about you pick an emotion and write a poem round it.
Love
Lust
Envy
Greed
Hunger
Flirty
On and on and on the list of emotions go.
Or pick a picture and let it be your guide. Take a walk write a haiku!
Take someone elses poem and rewrite it in your own words. ( you read it, think about what it means to you and write your own poem.)
@ Latin
I'll personally say no.
A poem is something that is written to be recited.
If the poem is very long(I mean closing up on 1000+ words) I would say it needs a clear structure and rythm.
For me to count it as a poem.
But I do not mind 30 min poems, if they're good.
Write about the not having an idea about your next poem.
Quote by latinsugar4U Question for the poets out there:
Is there a rule on how many lines or word count a poem needs to have in order to remain a "poem"?
The smallest poetry style that I am aware of is a haiku. They consists of only 17 syllables and 3 lines - 5, 7, 5.
Not really any length limits, anything from "Madam, I'm Adam" to hundreds and hundreds of lines like Byron's Childe Harold, etc. It takes as many lines as you need to say what you want to.
Not really any length limits, anything from "Madam, I'm Adam" to hundreds and hundreds of lines like Byron's Childe Harold, etc. It takes as many lines as you need to say what you want to.
Thank you, I appreciate your reply.
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Poetry is the most personal of art forms but if you intend your poems to be read by others, then you should probably give them something substantial to chew on and digest.
I advocate use of punctuation, yes, good old fashioned commas, full stops and caps etc. Grammar too belongs to all genres of English unless you really don't want people to understand what the fuck you're talking about. This will give your poem structure and, dare I say, will mean that other authors will take you seriously.
For me, good poetry is like a beautiful painting - all the elements (words, lines, images, punctuation) have to work in harmony to produce a beautiful whole.
Subjects for poems are many but for me there is only one great theme - love, sex, desire, lust, lushness and the sublime enigma that is woman.
Piquet said, "For me, good poetry is like a beautiful painting - all the elements (words, lines, images, punctuation) have to work in harmony to produce a beautiful whole."
I would add to that, poetry is more demanding of the writer, than prose. One can write a story, and get away with some verbosity, and diversions down a parallel train of thought. In a good poem, there is not one syllable that is superfluous. Every word has meaning, and contributes to the whole to such an extent that if changed, or removed, something in the meaning or mpact of the poem would be lost.
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster
Quote by DLizze Piquet said, "For me, good poetry is like a beautiful painting - all the elements (words, lines, images, punctuation) have to work in harmony to produce a beautiful whole."
I would add to that, poetry is more demanding of the writer, than prose. One can write a story, and get away with some verbosity, and diversions down a parallel train of thought. In a good poem, there is not one syllable that is superfluous. Every word has meaning, and contributes to the whole to such an extent that if changed, or removed, something in the meaning or mpact of the poem would be lost.
Quote by LatinSugar Question for the poets out there:
Is there a rule on how many lines or word count a poem needs to have in order to remain a "poem"?
There is a poem called "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov (currently my favourite author) and it's got 999 lines, spread over 4 cantos. It's classed as a novel but it's still considered a poem.
I personally think if it's still got the hallmarks of a poem, it's still a poem, regardless of length.
Quote by TopThis The smallest poetry style that I am aware of is a haiku. They consists of only 17 syllables and 3 lines - 5, 7, 5.
I have just discovered on that there is a smaller form from Burma called a Than Bauk which is three lines of four syllables where the fourth, then third, then second syllables rhyme:
Writing for Lush,
Is a rush, when,
You push yourself.
Hm, not sure if that is a good example. Maybe we should start a new thread!