were to find inspiration?

Question

i am a big poetry fan and WANT TO GET SOME inspiration for my poems so can someone please give me some ideas

Answer 1

Get off your computer and out of your house. Anything you see that captures your attention for a moment is inspiration for a poem. There are some pretty strange things out there in real life - I wrote a poem about a man I saw in the grocery store parking lot. He had this amazing, weathered-leather face, a straw-hat that was mostly composed of holes, an old flannel shirt, cowboy boots, jeans that looked like they would walk all by themselves after he took them off for the night... and he straddled a purple BMX bicycle and peddled away. Totally unexpected.

Answer 2

Inspiration is within you...I don't want to sound metaphysical or philosophical, but it really is inside of you...it's the way "you" choose to look at something. It can be the most mundane thing in the world, yet it might remind you of something desired, lost, treasured or hated...it is then up to you to turn that feeling, that concept, that vision, based on "your" perceptions, into a poem that can bring others to see, feel, experience what you've just experienced. When you do it in a tight, concise and insightful way, others will call you good things...when you do it half-heartedly, they'll call you a hack...but in either case, you get to be called a poet for making the attempt.

So, look at a deck of cards...see a western shootout over a card cheat...look at a flat tire, and see what the person did when they pulled it out as their only spare...or how it got that way...or why they didn't get it fixed the last time. The permutations are literally endless...but each one has to come from "you"...or you'll just be responding to someone else's idea...and you won't "feel" where the poem should go, how it should sound, or be able to give it that spark of insight that comes from finding out a piece to the puzzle on your own.

hope this helps

Answer 3

It depends on what you enjoy writing about, or write about well. Anything can be inspiration, positive or negative. That said, if you don't want to write about the sunrise, it doesn't matter how beautiful it is. If you don't want to write about love or silly putty or angst or the tantrum of a three-year-old in the grocery store, seeing them won't feel like inspiration. There are times that, just observing the world around you, something will strike a chord in you. Other times, you may have to seek out inspiration, and it begins with what you know and understand.

A professor once told me, holding up a single pink packet of Sweet 'N Low, "Even this could become a poem." Inspiration needn't be extraordinary on its face; if inspiration is difficult to come by, just look at something you know well, then try to look at it differently. Good luck!

Answer 4

Try writing poetry about whats in your heart, like the love of you life, or the one that got away. Or things you are feeling.
Good Luck

Answer 5

inpiration is all around. In everything you do, see, feel, smell, or hear about. nothing special about inspiration, just look.