Five Ways to Write Good Poetry

Becoming a poet doesn’t take too much hard work. Writing great poetry is a skill that develops over time, as with time comes experience but there’s no reason why anyone can’t write good poetry. Poetry that is entertaining, emotional or just a bit silly, whatever you feel like writing! No matter what your experience in writing poetry is, here are 5 tips that will definitely help you on your way to writing the next poetry masterpiece!

1. Write with Emotion

Most creativity is inspired by emotions. When you are feeling any emotion at all, this is the perfect time to write poetry. Even if you can’t form an entire peom with your feelings, make sure that you write down as many notes as you can that can depict the way that you feel. Try to come back to the notes when you’re feeling the same way to make your poetry even better.

2. Be Inspired

It’s no wonder that the greatest artists, musicians and writers can tell you the ’story’ behind their finest works, the chances are that they were inspired by something, a random event, a word or even a song ; all of these things can be used to inspire you to write poetry. Take advantage of the moments when you’re feeling inspired and write as much as you can. Also write down what inspired you so that you can go back to it later.

3. Don’t Rhyme

Poetry DOES NOT have to rhyme. There, I said it. What do you do if a fruit bowl inspire you? How are you supposed to get a word that rhymes with ‘oragne’, huh? Exactly. It’s blatantly obvious to readers when you’ve had to go through every word in the dictionary just to find a word that rhymes in sync with whatever you’ve decided to end a line with. It makes your writing seem poor and badly put together so just write with whatever words are in your head  and if they successfully rhyme, great and if they don’t, even better!

4. Don’t Think too much

There’s no point in trying write a poem out of thin air,  trust me, I’ve written poems about dogs and cell phones because I tried to think. Just go with whatever is already in your head and don’t try to add anything to it, just stick with the simple ideas and try and make sense out of it so that it’s understandable.

5. Write in the ‘Now’

There’s no point in using all of these tips to become a a better poet if you’re not going to write with them as soon as possible. Even if you just write notes like in point 2, it’s incredibly important for you to use the ideas that you have in any way otherwise you could forget that amazing (!) idea that you had just because you didn’t do anything with it.

Looking to read some better poems than ‘Dog’ and ‘Cell Phone’? Read these 2 poems that I wrote 

1. Summer Thoughts
2. Liaisons of the Heart