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How-tos for all things poetry; learn how to analyze a poem, construct a haiko, differentiate between a metaphor and simile and more.
How to Write and Deliver a Remarkable Spoken Word Piece
This guide will show you the steps to write and perform poetry like a Spoken Word artist. You will learn how perform a spoken word piece, which is a written poem meant to be performed and read aloud. Once you get trained in the poetic art of spoken word you can go out and participate in local open mics all around the city.
Antwan LittlePublished 6 years ago in PoetsPositive Effects of Poetry
Over the past few years, I have suffered from depression and anxiety. All the while, I have been a poetry enthusiast and I write in my spare time. After a session of writing, I felt tranquil and calm. This begs the question; does writing poetry benefit mental health?
Katharin CrewsonPublished 6 years ago in PoetsHow to Not Care About Yourself
1. You should care about you. Unbrushed teeth chatter, loved ones surround you, how are you doing really; are you sad?
Alexandria AfanadorPublished 6 years ago in PoetsFrom Boiled Eggs to Deviled Eggs
Deviled eggs are my absolute favorite dish to make. I fill a pan with raw eggs and water to put it on the stove for heat.
Sarah ParishPublished 6 years ago in PoetsA Guide to Writing Poetry
I’m frequently asked on Instagram how I write poems, what’s my technique or process and do I have any advice on writing poetry. I thought it would be easier to collect all the advice I’ve ever given into one condensed little guide for anyone who wants to get into poetry or simply improve as a poet.
Sean MartinPublished 6 years ago in PoetsThree Expression Tips For New Poets
I want to start this post off with the disclaimer that in no way am I trying to teach people how to write poetry. Systematic, routine poetry is not poetry at all, and therefore, genuine poetry cannot be taught. However, there are some things that I have picked up over the years that help me better express myself in my writing, things that allow me to say things that I never thought I would be able to say or express ideas that I never thought I would be able to depict.
Davina ZachariasPublished 6 years ago in PoetsComplacency
Complacency is the leading cause of injury in the workplace. Cut keys too many times without using your gloves and you might get cut.
Katrell PlunkettPublished 6 years ago in PoetsThrowaway
There are 7.4 billion people in the world and 170 thousand words in the English language in regular use, this is a throwaway I am a throwaway. These words are no more significant than the arrangement of any other words just as my coming to be is no more significant than anyone else. I wasn't really born spectacular in fact I was born short but it wasn't record breaking short it was normal short which is a metaphor for this poem.
Katrell PlunkettPublished 6 years ago in PoetsHow to Make Love to a Woman
Relinquish the remote control make pleasing her your focused goal You would do well to lose the ME It stands in her way Free tapping out love’s sweetest song
Tim Ellerbe IIPublished 6 years ago in PoetsHow To Write as Mine
When writing I always start with the skeleton and muscle. Usually this will suffice in the essays, the reports, the columns, reviews, etc.
Introversion as a State of Mind, as a Way of Being
Introversion is not a perversion It is a state of mind, a way of being Different from what is supposed to be Different from what is expected of you
Creative HubPublished 7 years ago in PoetsLove is...
I regret my inability to overcome the pain of all my disappointments. So I try to live without expectation and there by maintain a threadbare existence. To simply live and to simply give. To look beyond the story of suffering into the truth of love and all the joy that is contained in the overwhelming currents of intimate connection. The story of Shama is the story of myself. The story of the peaceful goddess who exploded into a myriad of pieces and somehow each piece found itself and grew itself a new whole until the old reflection was no longer broken. But complete and unified in its own power. For itself, by itself, this is the nature of my soul. And if you are its reflection than yours too. For I am as timeless as the history of cosmic motion. Universe without beginning and without end. I call upon your higher self to trust again. To suspend all beliefs and concepts and simply trust in the unfathomable depths of each living breath. For it is in the breath that true being emerges. All else is just the containment and therefore sacred only in so far as it reveals the core.
Crystal PearlPublished 7 years ago in Poets