Anyone can fall in love, and everyone can write some words on a page. However, being a great love poems writer takes a lot of patience and dedication. So, let’s explore some simple steps so you can achieve that:
- You should let your subject find you. If you’re in love you should write love poems about that. If you’ve had your heart broken writing will help you with healing and moving on. If you’ve lost a loved one poetry is a a good way to get through the grieving process or just write to express your feelings and how you feel at the moment.
- Don’t write with no feelings, if a poet isn’t feeling what he is writing, he isn’t necessarily writing bad poetry, but poetry with no feelings isn’t something interesting and most people wouldn’t read it.
- The subjects that you write about have to matter to you, as said by Emily Dickinson ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant,’ the best poems don’t get written by going through the front door of the subject, but they sneak through the back and they enter through the window or down the chimney.
- Write about the things that are right under our noses, sometimes the ordinary things are the things we find especially fascinating and wonderful. Make a connection with the ordinary and write about that. And be picky about what you write about, so the things that you visualize in your poetry are the things that you do your best at.
- You should use everything that you have at your expense, non-rhyming poetry is good, but to keep writing like that is like having a new car and never getting it out of the second gear, so using rhymes is even better and really expands your horizons. Also use dictionaries and thesaurus to expand your vocabulary which is great not just for poetry, but for everyday life.
- When you get stuck and get writer’s block, going for a walk is really good to get your brain going and have the poetry flowing, you can also wash your hair which helps a lot in these situations.
- Your work needs to be open to interpretation and for people to get their emotions in the poem, they might not know what your meaning is, but they need to get their own out of it.
- Reading your poems out loud is crucial and you need to do it. This will show you how your readers will interpret the poem and not just how you see them on a page.
- Find your own time to write, some people like writing in the early mornings, some people write during the afternoon or maybe night time is when you peek. This doesn’t matter, just find your perfect time when you get the most motivation, and write.
- Read, revise, and edit. Before you start writing read books, other poetry, and the newspapers for inspiration, when you’ve written your poem go over it, revise it, and if you feel that something can be better edit it. Your first thoughts might not always be the best, so do this to get improve. And remember to write!
