First of all, poetry is a serious subject. Few have ever perfected the area of poetry, and the few people who have are recognized as some of the greatest poets of all time. One of my teacher’s in school once said, “It is hard to put yourself out there where people judge under their own standards.” That quote made me think about, instantly, the posting of poetry. It is a brave thing to do.
No matter what, writing a poem is an accomplishment. Many people out there would spend hours merely thinking of the line. One day, I was sitting in the cafeteria after school and I was writing a poem and my friend came up to me and asking what I was writing about. I told her and she said it was amazing how people could write a poem, when she couldn’t even write a line. And, I insisted she could write at least a line, and I found out that in fact, I was wrong. She could not write a line for the life of her, and it in fact was a task to write ONE measly line. That is why in order to write a poem you must feel satisfied with whatever you can accomplish. You must put your heart and soul into the words being written on paper (or typed on the computer), and when you don’t put your heart and soul into a poem, it shows.
There are steps on how to write a poem, how to write this style and that style, etc…, but I believe that it is important to know what to NOT do rather than to know what TO do. Which is why I have taken to writing this article?