Jene Licausi: difficult step. do a search in bing and yahoo. it can help!
Justin Casten: hi. i write poetry too. i am currently taking a creative writing class, and just finished our unit on poety. this book we used exposed me to many different types of poetry, its a small book (and cheep). its called Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writingsome poetry can rhyme, some does not. Also something that goes hand i hand w/ poetry is prose. A different type of poetry is called free verse. free verse has no rhymes, no lines, it can go where ever & often talks about pop culture (doesnt have to). Any poetry is allowed to break any rule :) here is a funny ex. my teacher gave us, its free verse, http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/seven-long-day...my teacher gave us this poem to show how simple a poem can be http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/wcw-red-... i probably could go on & on about this stuff, but i wont leave you a 5 p! age answer lolgood luck w/ your poetry writing...Show more
Faustino Mellerson: best advice I can think of is read more, read more poetry, prose, everything!of course you don't have to rhyme for your poetry to be good, there has to be some beauty in it (even if the topic isn't so beautiful). I never liked the way teachers would dissect poetry in school, I always thought that the sign of good poetry is that it speaks to the reader. That it gets even just some of what the poet wants to say across to the reader. That it makes an impact or improves the readers world in some way, either by speaking to them or bringing them to another place.I'm ranting now....best of luck with the writing and don't forget the good old Irish poets, WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh and many more but these are the first to spring to mind...Show more
Jose Bouliouris: Ir's not necessary to rhyme, true, but it must flow evenly,and more like syllable count is important. The poemmu! st have a subject or thought that is consistentlyknown or reco! gnized....or share a common ground.Thats what I find good poems are about and share.
Tobie Oshea: the words must flow, so no, it doesn't have to rhyme. but other than flowing it must also be moving and original; something someone will remember and think about for a long time after reading the poem.
Johnnie Pummill: Poetry does not have to rhyme, but rhythm is important.You must read as much as you can and as many different styles as you can, classic and contemporary; free verse and structured forms. Two good anthologies: Staying Alive, Real poems for Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems. Two books on writing that will help guide you are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and The Poetry Home Repair Kit from Ted Kooser.There are many good sites on line where you can read poetry daily or browse the archives:Academy of Americans PoetsPoetry DailyVerse DailyThe Writer's AlmanacPloughsharesRattleAnd if you're looking for more poets, here's! a very short list. Have fun!William Stafford Li-Young Lee Gary Snyder Dorianne Laux Lucille Clifton Seamus Heaney Anna Akhmatova Stanley Kunitz Yusef Komunyakaa Kay Ryan Jane Kenyon Yehuda Amichai Tony Hoagland William Matthews Emily Dickinson Grace Paley Wislawa Szymborska Donald Hall Jimmy Santiago Baca Bob Hicok Floyd Skloot Mary Oliver Ruth Stone Jane Mead Countee Cullen WCW Robert Frost Brendan Galvin Linda McCarriston AE Stallings Dylan Thomas Richard Wilbur Naomi Shihab Nye Ted Kooser Galway Kinnell Rita Dove Mary Jo Bang Gjertrud Schnackenberg Rhina Espaillat Allen Ginsberg Charles Simic Czeslaw Milosz Joy Harjo Eavan Boland Elizabeth Bishop Les Murray Federico GarcÃa Lorca Pablo NerudaRobert Wrigley...Show more
Abby Herwood: whatever subject you write you cant just write bout it you have to had experience it, whether its love,hate,friendship,sadness,happiness, or whatever ,You just have to let it come from the heart.
Tommy Durrenberger: an incredibly ! stable artwork. Tristesse -- unhappiness .... is. Your poem conveys the ! precise timbre of unhappiness, throwness, chaos (bitey canines), and the poignant 2d of wistfulness in status before one's previous abode -- now as one's existence condition has replaced a lot. Use mendicant interior the 2d to final line or perhaps indigent -- do no longer use beggar two times -- no could hit the reader on the top -- we get it -- your money's long gone -- you're down and out. a sprint polish and it incredibly is an incredibly wonderful poem. Is it too very own to be publishable? close -- possibly in an extremely arty small press pub this might fly. besides the incontrovertible fact that it exhibits the greatness of your skill as a poet. you have got here upon an extremely poetic theory. you have used specific concrete credible photos (ouch). you have good cadence and ping, it hangs jointly properly and bring some thing to the reader. great exercising poem, shop it on your backpages. in case you get in demand (for different poems) look at it back, along with! your agent sometime. shop writing stuff this sturdy!...Show more
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