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There are many shapes that poetry can take, in technical form and in subject. Where some people will start writing without worry, others consider it a more difficult written medium to tackle. However, this does not necessarily need to be the case since no extensive knowledge is needed to write joyful poems. It can honestly be as easy as making yourself comfortable and putting your feelings to paper. You can put it into some kind of poetic form, later.
For now, just sit in front of a blank piece of paper or an empty page on a word processor and just write. Either do this for a set amount of time or just until you feel that you have written enough. The key here, though, is to do it without pausing and without editing yourself.
It does not matter, at this stage, if you make any mistakes or if anything does just not sound as good as you think it should. Once you are finished, your next step is to look over what you have written and make a note of anything that stands out to you. You can then go on to use these to prompt poems or to arrange them into one poem if that is what you want to do.
Here, with this exercise, you should have captured an important aspect of your feelings. This will result in better content than if you were trying to abide by some idea of what you think poetry should be. You are putting what you want to say out there, and this will help you elicit a response of the emotional sort from your readers.
If you are more genuine in your words, they will be more genuine in their emotion. There are more things to know, however, when it comes to helping your work look less trite. If you want to sound original and fresh, you should, of course, avoid known cliches. This means things that you have heard too many times because the same will have gone for your reader.
Look at your notes and consider your own metaphors and similes. Thinking this way can take time, but regular writing will help you become more adept at crafting an image. If you want to, you can tackle cliches individually, by taking them, working out what you really want to say and creating a new phrase.
Sentimentality should also be avoided, do not confuse emotion with this. The feelings you share and elicit should be as genuine and fresh as possible. Nothing in your poems should be forced if you want the reaction to them to be personal. You should also be careful of using abstract words. Tangible imagery is a much better way to suggest something.
Do not tell your readers you are happy or sad or angry, use concrete imagery to get that feeling across, instead. When you are writing your poem, do not worry too much about editing, yet, however. What matters, to begin with, is that you get something down. The most important thing after that, of course, is to start revising what you have written. Eventually, you will have written the first of many joyful poems to come.
For now, just sit in front of a blank piece of paper or an empty page on a word processor and just write. Either do this for a set amount of time or just until you feel that you have written enough. The key here, though, is to do it without pausing and without editing yourself.
It does not matter, at this stage, if you make any mistakes or if anything does just not sound as good as you think it should. Once you are finished, your next step is to look over what you have written and make a note of anything that stands out to you. You can then go on to use these to prompt poems or to arrange them into one poem if that is what you want to do.
Here, with this exercise, you should have captured an important aspect of your feelings. This will result in better content than if you were trying to abide by some idea of what you think poetry should be. You are putting what you want to say out there, and this will help you elicit a response of the emotional sort from your readers.
If you are more genuine in your words, they will be more genuine in their emotion. There are more things to know, however, when it comes to helping your work look less trite. If you want to sound original and fresh, you should, of course, avoid known cliches. This means things that you have heard too many times because the same will have gone for your reader.
Look at your notes and consider your own metaphors and similes. Thinking this way can take time, but regular writing will help you become more adept at crafting an image. If you want to, you can tackle cliches individually, by taking them, working out what you really want to say and creating a new phrase.
Sentimentality should also be avoided, do not confuse emotion with this. The feelings you share and elicit should be as genuine and fresh as possible. Nothing in your poems should be forced if you want the reaction to them to be personal. You should also be careful of using abstract words. Tangible imagery is a much better way to suggest something.
Do not tell your readers you are happy or sad or angry, use concrete imagery to get that feeling across, instead. When you are writing your poem, do not worry too much about editing, yet, however. What matters, to begin with, is that you get something down. The most important thing after that, of course, is to start revising what you have written. Eventually, you will have written the first of many joyful poems to come.
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