how to write a good poem?

Question

i can write good, but not poetry, and i want to become better at it.

Answer 1

I like to write poems all the time. It comes from the heart. and soul. Perhaps get some books on poetry from the library, or read a few poems from other poets, use them as guidelines. My poems are about my life. Work with the words. Look into your heart and soul and it should start to flow. Just write the words down and edit it later.
That is how I started writing poetry...

Answer 2

Narrow your focus: Grandiose themes like 'love' and 'injustice' need to be pared down to managable size. What sort of love, what kind of injustice?

Write around your theme: Is your poem about love? Then don't use the word 'love' in your poem! (What a bland word it has become, after all . . .) Instead, describe the precise feeling, build a metaphor, write around the idea of love to get through to the core of what you're trying to evoke.

Express ideas, not emotions: Poetry is more than a venting of feelings (that's what a diary is for!). Put some intellectual distance between yourself and the subject matter of your poetry.

Ditch the Rhymes: Don't rhyme for the sake of rhyming. New poets tend to think they can get away with less-than-perfect rhymes, and/or rhymes divorced from meter. Not so! Stick to free verse unless you're prepared to work very hard at mastering formal poetry.

Edit your poems: Poetry too must undergo many revisions in order to shine. Don't be afraid of scrapping whole verses, or cutting everything down to a few good lines and rebuilding -- this is a necessary part of the process of producing great poetry.

Answer 3

As an exercise, and to become familiar with hearing your own words in poetry (rhyming) form, how about making parodies? Take a song, substitute other words, and voila! A new song (like "White & Nerdy" by Al Yankovik)is born... well, mutated! I found when I tried this it became quite easy and I was doing it all the time. It might help you get the feel of balancing words & phrases. I'm a good writer too, and poetry can be a challenge. Don't forget to ask for opinions, another point of view can help you break through a poetic mental block.
Happy rhymin', Simon (heh heh).

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Pay no attention to the other answers, especially ones that spell sense "sence" and the ones that tell you to use rhyming words. Rhyming words are for simplistic verse and usually found on greeting cards. Poetry is something else entirely. It lifts the soul and expands the mind. Take a course. Study the masters. Read a lot of excellent poetry. You won't find that here on Yahoo. What you find here on Q and A is tripe written by a bunch of lovesick teens and people who don't understand poetry. You either have a flair for writing true, excellent poetry or you don't. Read the masters and see what they have to say. Start with Dickinson and go to Wallace Stevens. My guess is you will decide to try another venue.

Answer 6

Practice and join a poetry writing class or a group

Answer 7

If you want to write good poetry, read good poetry as much as you can. You'll get better at it the more you write.

Answer 8

writing a poem take a long time it took me once a whole year to write a really good poem that meant something to me. Sometimes poetry isn't for everyone.
I would start off with rhyming poems like :
the grass was full of morning dew
the sun shines in a sky so blue...... you get the picture right.
start there and work your way up until you are comfortable with what you have written.
Good Luck!!

Answer 9

1. Find a topic to write about.

2. Think about something you'd REALLY like to include in there and write it on a scratch sheet of paper.

3. Decide on a title. ( if you can't think of one now, wait until you've written the entire poem to title it).

4. Think of your 1st line and write it down ( NOT on your final paper ).

5. Think of your 2nd line and write it down w/ the last word of each line rhyming and w/ each line having the same amount of syllables (EXAM. Life - is - won - der - ful - live - it - well. 8
Find - great - love - and - hap - pily - dwell 8 )

6. Repeat steps 4. and 5. until you're happy with your poem.

7. Check to see if each 2 lines have the same amount of syllables.

8. If you don't already have your title, come up with it now.

9, Check spelling...etc. and maybe even find someone to recheck it themselves ( sometimes we don't catch all our own mistakes).

Answer 10

I write poetry, and I just make sure I write with my heart. The best times for me to write, are when I'm upset about something or really happy.
The boost of emotion helps me when I put pen to paper.