can someone please help me start off my poem?

Question

i want to write about 9/11....how should i start it, it has to rhyme ababcdcd....

can someone plz help me, ive have never really written a poem before

Answer 1

How about?

From out of the sky came the terror
Shaking us to the bone
Was it intent or error
To aim it at hope's home

It's close to one I actually did write for 9/11, but mine didn't rhyme. You have my permission to use it if it will help you start your own poem.


Here's the one I wrote, in case it will help further. Do not use too much of it, for yours. I'm merely including it to see if it might help inspire you.

From out of the sky came our terror
Shaking us to the bone
All our securities, tumbled away
How vulnerable
How fragile

And all, for the sake of Hate
In the Name of God

Now we stand amidst the rubble
Etched in our anger,
Pain, and sorrow
Shock, and fear

As much a jumble
As the ruins left behind
When the dust settled

And how will our memory paint this day?
In what shades of tragedy shall we compare?
And the shadow looms before us, too
For what is yet to come.

Answer 2

Sometimes the best way to start off is to just simply write your thoughts and feelings on the subject. Then try turning it into a poem.

There are rhyming dictionaries available online that may help you, just type 'rhyming dictionary' into google!

Good luck!

Answer 3

do you have any lines yet so we can get an idea of what you want to say?

Whenever I write, I try to just write and write and write not worrying too much about getting it into the right format. After a while, I find myself writing poems with some really good lines in it.

Answer 4

I can't write your poem for you!
You have to be creative. What are your views on it? How do you feel about it? (Obviously it was a terrible thing) so pour that energy into it. Also try to write down some words that you think of when you hear about 9/11...that usually helps me.
Hope this helped...just be creative and get your point across

Answer 5

They held so much respect and power
the twin brother towers

so many americans watch over us in heaven
we mourn for the terrible day on 9/11

Answer 6

That day we knew what fear was
In the hearts of the falling towers
As we watched the screaming..the mess
We slowly began to loose power..

Answer 7

There once was a man from Nantucket
...


Seriously, I realize you want to write about something very heavy, but for your first poem, this might be too ambitious and ultimately too disappointing a venture.

Do well.

Answer 8

A day of sad & sorrows
May the lord hear the the hollers

Answer 9

I got one for ya here it goes,it's not about 9/11,people wanna forget that.

Haiku's are easy,but sometimes don't make any sense,refrigerator.

Answer 10

A normal day
A horrible day
A day that started out so fine
A night of nightmare, dark and fire
....and so on....hope you can use it :P