What are good topics for poetry?

Question

Any ideas?
Stuff that will touch people, get through to them, stuff that there is lots to write about, etc... basically, anything!
Or, what poetry topics would YOU like to read about??

Would you like reading poems that rhyme more or poems that dont?

Answer 1

I believe that anything well written is a good topic. This is a great question and one that has caused many, many debates over the years.

I prefer rhyming and meter to free style. I have found very few people can make a free style poem sound beautiful, clear and still get the point across. Anyone can write what they are thinking and feeling at a given moment, few can make it a poem. That's why I don't do it, but also poems come to me in rhyme and meter. And I can tell you I have never had to scracrifice meaning for word rhyme. But I also don't write very short poems. I think that is just me...*smiles*

example:

Depression

There are times when the pain is just too much
When conscious thought only brings more tears
When your mind has to shout “take a deep breath”
While you look back and count how many years

You know in your heart that this too shall pass
But each time it seems to take a bit longer
You tell yourself that things aren’t all that bad
But the doubt in your mind has gotten stronger

Things that make your heart light get pushed down deeper
Things that make you smile have gone there too
It doesn’t matter what you think you want
Each time that you go there seems like the last to you

Insecurity is so hard to master
Doubts and fears just seem to expand with time
The unconscious barrier that holds them down
Gets thinner while you sit and wonder why

People tell you to think of the good times
As if there were that many to recall
So you make an effort to be positive
Hoping that you can scale those inner walls

Walls that were built for self-preservation
Were also built so very long ago
They are there to protect you from life’s pains
And to help you keep from falling too low

So here you are deep into this depression
Maybe you even know the reasons why
But that doesn’t mean you can change anything
No matter how desperately you try

Susan Palmer-Davis
Copyright © 2002
All Rights Reserved

Answer 2

for the first question, ANYthing is a good topic for a poem, as long as you can write it well

for the second part, i have no preference. the only problem with rhyming poetry is that often, to rhyme is to sacrifice. you often have to give up the perfect word because it doesn't rhyme. rhyme should never be the main goal, the message of the poem and the power of the words should be. if you can write a poem that rhymes without sacrificing the meaning, go for it.

Answer 3

Topics: Love, depression, happiness. Any powerful emotion.

As for rhyming: That's irrelevent to me. Sure rhyme gives rhythm, but I think what the poem says is more important.

Answer 4

everything in life is a good topic for poetry you just have to feel it to believe it
i prefer free verse, i hate it when people think that poems need to rhyme as if it is a term paper or something it takes the magic out of it.

Answer 5

Write about whatever you feel a passion for.
It could be love, friendship, family, nature or whatever.
I enjoy poems most when they rhyme but as long as they make me feel some emotion, that's all that really matters.

Personally, I write poetry more easily when I'm feeling a little melancholy.

Answer 6

hey marie, i'd like to write a poetry on major events that happened to me throughout my life and call it 1979 till present. (You can write from 1981 till present).

Abstracts of what has occured since the year I was born. Just abstracts in poetry. I dunno, this is just an idea I came up with. Well actually, Billy Joel came up with it with the song "We didn't start the Fire". Check out its lyrics and that's what I'm talking about. Of couse he did it for events since 194-something - the year he was born til 1989 - the year the song was written.

Do share some of them ya. Good luck! :)

Answer 7

It's not "Bill, but it's my answer to the subject you and he breach:

Sonnet #14

my love ascends amnesiac stairs/
sube mi amor escaleras amnesicas
where my sanity starves my lunacy begins/
donde mi cordura pasa hambre comienza mi locura/
to swindle itself out of itself/
para estafarse uno a si miso/
while these feelings bail/
mientras achico estos sentimientos/
this innundated sinking skiff in a storm/
este esquife inundado se hunde en la tormenta/
lashed to its prow my arms unfurl/
azotado en la proa mis brazos se abren /
gather sky in giant hungry gulps/
mi amor, reune el cielo a grandes tragos voraces/
four sheets in the sails/
las velas hechas de cuatro sabanas/
like a pauper sups from his beggars bowl/
como 'un pobre su tazon de mendigo
tiny bits of gruel/
trocitos de aguachirle/
Eye confide in its'wisdom: the fool/
Ojo confio en su sabidurيa tonta-que'necio/
the blood knows all secrets/
la sangre sabe todos los secretos/
the heart never tells/
el corazon nunca los cuenta
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Answer 8

:):) Life itself is poetry. Let the words flow as they will.
Cast images into the heart of you reader,
and weave them into your story.

Use rhyme, use prose, or even iambic pentameter.
As long as it you capture the essence of the meaning. :):)

Answer 9

Try here:

http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/poetry.html

Answer 10

DO NOT TAKE IDEAS !@#$%8