Can someone give me some pointers on writing poems?

Prowless · 05-15-2004, 09:17 PM

I'm tryin to hone my poetry skills but they suck..

Xero Satsujin · 05-15-2004, 09:35 PM

what do you mean they suck?

poetry is the emotion turned into written word perfected. It's remembering that it doesnt have to rhyme to be respected. Poetry is you, poetry is me, most of all, all things are poetry. Just gotta find ya groove, that's all...

Brit Boi Gee · 05-15-2004, 09:50 PM

First of all you have to stop thinking you suck, and what other people think of you and your writing. Imagine a person who bottles everything up and would never reveal their deepest feelings, poetry is kinda like the opposite of that, like someone who is proud of all of their feelings and decides to create to satisfy them..Now, If you want help with poetry I would suggest reading peoples poetry and to sit down and write about anything, like, HOW ARE YOU FEELING RIGHT NOW? well, it could be that you feel nothing, that nothing is still something..so nothing..and then write about what could make you feel like nothing..are U numb? frightened? blocking people out..cold, vacant, tired? where are you? whats the room like, hows the light? is the carpet worn, how worn is it.. how can you decribe the shadows in the room? do they overlap the light? collide? blanket? Engulf? suffocate? whats out of the window? stars, what do they remind you of? diamonds? water droplets? whats it like to find a diamond? what can you compare a diamond to? A woman, your first love? How did you feel then? what went through your mind? Now think back to your childhood, and you will find a treasure chest of feelings and memories to draw upon and write about...

Let yourself go, poetry can take you anywhere...

Goodnight

Prowless · 05-15-2004, 10:26 PM

thanks, i'll try puttin up a poem somewhere in the near future so i can get some opinions but i got class on monday tuesday an wednesday so i cant until after that

Prowless · 05-15-2004, 10:26 PM

i'm feeling frustrated right now

Brit Boi Gee · 05-16-2004, 12:01 PM

write about it

Xero Satsujin · 05-16-2004, 01:19 PM

what Brit was pointing out was to be observant, and to learn to watch and take the world in, 1-1000000000 details at a time, but watch it and see what it leads to. All things are connected, so note that and link it to your frustration...

Xero Satsujin · 05-16-2004, 01:29 PM

Ohh yeah, contrary to popular belief, the brain is much powerful than any computer could ever hope to be. The leading processer on the market, the Pentium 4 has about 20 million transistors. Yeah, seems like a lot, but, the human brain has more synaptics(same as transistors) than there are stars in the known universe. Besides that, the main reason is that a computer cannot reason, it is based on a grid and program from which it cannot deviate from. Intel has been making processers for about 20 years, while nature has been making brains for Eons...Just thought I'd give you a little input to help you feel comfortable with your writing ability, because there's not too much you can't do if you put your mind to it...

Brit Boi Gee · 05-16-2004, 07:49 PM

I dunno man, I have a pretty fast pentium 77mhz..lol

Xero Satsujin · 05-17-2004, 10:33 AM

^^lol, damn homie, lol...

/Slash/ · 05-17-2004, 01:44 PM

Yo write about something gay everyone pays attention when u do that
be saying gay with rosey corpses shit
feel n!gguh?

MISSKEYdaQUEEN · 05-18-2004, 11:23 AM

^^^^what??

Surreal The A.D. Prophet · 05-18-2004, 02:20 PM

write, take some time away from the piece, and then look at what you wrote and trying to figure out what you liked and what you didnt like.

usually when you think a poem sucks, there are maybe 2 lines you really like. so look at those two lines. eventually less of the poem is dissatisfying.

getting feedback from people involving how they reacted to the piece and what they felt didnt work is perhaps the second best way to hone craft. the main thing to remember though, is that it's best to evaluate what is said. if someone says that a piece of the poemshould be cut, and you disagree, figure out why you disagree. knowing why you have what you have on the page is the most important aspect of honing craft.

MisterEThoughts · 10-14-2004, 04:51 PM

Just write and keep writing practice thats all and read peoples poetry thats all i also suggest reading some classics thats the best way to start.....

the Guy with a Pen · 10-15-2004, 06:36 PM

write, write, write,

05-15-2004, 09:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
Prowless Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Va Posts: 537	Can someone give me some pointers on writing poems? I'm tryin to hone my poetry skills but they suck..

05-15-2004, 09:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
Xero Satsujin OnLy gOd kNoWs oR Goes Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sinking into the paper, like I was ink Posts: 2,196	what do you mean they suck? poetry is the emotion turned into written word perfected. It's remembering that it doesnt have to rhyme to be respected. Poetry is you, poetry is me, most of all, all things are poetry. Just gotta find ya groove, that's all... __________________ !.¸(`!.¸Xero Satsujin¸.!`)¸.! "Laissez les bon temps rouler" "Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler..."

05-15-2004, 09:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Brit Boi Gee manifest the zen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Near To Athena Posts: 15,836	First of all you have to stop thinking you suck, and what other people think of you and your writing. Imagine a person who bottles everything up and would never reveal their deepest feelings, poetry is kinda like the opposite of that, like someone who is proud of all of their feelings and decides to create to satisfy them..Now, If you want help with poetry I would suggest reading peoples poetry and to sit down and write about anything, like, HOW ARE YOU FEELING RIGHT NOW? well, it could be that you feel nothing, that nothing is still something..so nothing..and then write about what could make you feel like nothing..are U numb? frightened? blocking people out..cold, vacant, tired? where are you? whats the room like, hows the light? is the carpet worn, how worn is it.. how can you decribe the shadows in the room? do they overlap the light? collide? blanket? Engulf? suffocate? whats out of the window? stars, what do they remind you of? diamonds? water droplets? whats it like to find a diamond? what can you compare a diamond to? A woman, your first love? How did you feel then? what went through your mind? Now think back to your childhood, and you will find a treasure chest of feelings and memories to draw upon and write about... Let yourself go, poetry can take you anywhere... Goodnight __________________ Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. -William Shakespeare Brit Boi has a highly calibrated wifermometer Last edited by Brit Boi Gee; 05-15-2004 at 09:55 PM.

05-16-2004, 12:01 PM	#6 (permalink)
Brit Boi Gee manifest the zen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Near To Athena Posts: 15,836	write about it __________________ Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. -William Shakespeare Brit Boi has a highly calibrated wifermometer

05-16-2004, 01:19 PM	#7 (permalink)
Xero Satsujin OnLy gOd kNoWs oR Goes Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sinking into the paper, like I was ink Posts: 2,196	what Brit was pointing out was to be observant, and to learn to watch and take the world in, 1-1000000000 details at a time, but watch it and see what it leads to. All things are connected, so note that and link it to your frustration... __________________ !.¸(`!.¸Xero Satsujin¸.!`)¸.! "Laissez les bon temps rouler" "Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler..."

05-15-2004, 10:26 PM	#4 (permalink)
Prowless Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Va Posts: 537	thanks, i'll try puttin up a poem somewhere in the near future so i can get some opinions but i got class on monday tuesday an wednesday so i cant until after that

05-15-2004, 10:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Prowless Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Va Posts: 537	i'm feeling frustrated right now

05-16-2004, 01:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
Xero Satsujin OnLy gOd kNoWs oR Goes Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sinking into the paper, like I was ink Posts: 2,196	Ohh yeah, contrary to popular belief, the brain is much powerful than any computer could ever hope to be. The leading processer on the market, the Pentium 4 has about 20 million transistors. Yeah, seems like a lot, but, the human brain has more synaptics(same as transistors) than there are stars in the known universe. Besides that, the main reason is that a computer cannot reason, it is based on a grid and program from which it cannot deviate from. Intel has been making processers for about 20 years, while nature has been making brains for Eons...Just thought I'd give you a little input to help you feel comfortable with your writing ability, because there's not too much you can't do if you put your mind to it... __________________ !.¸(`!.¸Xero Satsujin¸.!`)¸.! "Laissez les bon temps rouler" "Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler..."

05-16-2004, 07:49 PM	#9 (permalink)
Brit Boi Gee manifest the zen Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Near To Athena Posts: 15,836	I dunno man, I have a pretty fast pentium 77mhz..lol __________________ Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. -William Shakespeare Brit Boi has a highly calibrated wifermometer

05-17-2004, 10:33 AM	#10 (permalink)
Xero Satsujin OnLy gOd kNoWs oR Goes Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sinking into the paper, like I was ink Posts: 2,196	^^lol, damn homie, lol... __________________ !.¸(`!.¸Xero Satsujin¸.!`)¸.! "Laissez les bon temps rouler" "Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler..."

05-17-2004, 01:44 PM	#11 (permalink)
/Slash/ Banned Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 137	Yo write about something gay everyone pays attention when u do that be saying gay with rosey corpses shit feel n!gguh?

05-18-2004, 11:23 AM	#12 (permalink)
MISSKEYdaQUEEN Watch the black panther.. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Glenville REPPIN BIYAAAATCHES!! Posts: 17,647	^^^^what?? __________________ Queen's MySpace Page Queen's Other Myspace Page biaaatches *********************** The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at.~Jesse Owens (1913-1980)

05-18-2004, 02:20 PM	#13 (permalink)
Surreal The A.D. Prophet Wondrous Poetic Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: Surreality, Surreality Posts: 1,809	write, take some time away from the piece, and then look at what you wrote and trying to figure out what you liked and what you didnt like. usually when you think a poem sucks, there are maybe 2 lines you really like. so look at those two lines. eventually less of the poem is dissatisfying. getting feedback from people involving how they reacted to the piece and what they felt didnt work is perhaps the second best way to hone craft. the main thing to remember though, is that it's best to evaluate what is said. if someone says that a piece of the poemshould be cut, and you disagree, figure out why you disagree. knowing why you have what you have on the page is the most important aspect of honing craft. __________________ look at it this way, i COULD have said "nice post" and left it at that, but you wouldnt have to figure out what is wrong with me then, would you?

10-14-2004, 04:51 PM	#14 (permalink)
MisterEThoughts MysteryOfUntoldTruth Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bay Area,Cali Posts: 1,962	Just write and keep writing practice thats all and read peoples poetry thats all i also suggest reading some classics thats the best way to start..... __________________ complicated visionary....injected beauty... provided by the starry night of misery... http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=800464 My Published Book. "A Closed Window Of Truth"

10-15-2004, 06:36 PM	#15 (permalink)
the Guy with a Pen a Svan Production Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Canada Posts: 1,005	write, write, write, __________________ \| the Guy with a Pen \|

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