How To Write A Poem

The great thing about writing a poem is that you can write it anywhere. Sometimes, people say what is a poem about or what do I write a poem about? Poems are usually about moods, they are about emotions, feelings, so if you feel joyful or if you feel sad, that is the good point to start a poem from. You might just decide to describe something, look around your house, it does not matter what it is, just have fun with writing poems, thinking of words.

It's just getting some words on the page. I think it's important to write by hand. I think when you write a poem by hand, you get connection between your body and the page and that is important with poems and it's important somehow you get feelings across.

And the other beauty of writing by hand is that if you change the poem afterwards, if you read it through any change of word or you move a sentence around, you can see what you have done and you can always go back to the original poem. There are some simple exersices that you can do to get you started if you don't seem to be getting anywhere. Write down on some scraps of paper a list of words, a list of feelings, happiness, jealousy, anger, write down about ten or twelve of them and then write down other pieces of paper.

Write down twelve ordinary objects, write down a kettle, a flower, a sausage and then shuffle the bits of paper and pick one object and one emotion. You might end up with something really strange, you might have flower of jealousy, you might have kettle of rage and you might have the sausage of happiness. Those are all great things to get you writing a poem, just play around with words and see what comes up.

A poem does not have to rhyme and it does not have to fit any particular form to something called free verse, but it is important to listen to the sounds and the words. Poetry is all about sound s, it's always important to read your poem aloud. If you read it aloud, you will hear when the words sound right and that is the best way to finish of the poem.