I'm a person who started poeming on NUF. Here I met @Autumn Wind who carries poetry in her every breeze~ Inspired, I made a poem to her. To confess her effect on me. From there this whole journey started, until I can call myself on of the first NUF Poets, one of those that basically forced a wave of poetry on NUF, an anonymous forum about novels. From her, my first Partner in Rhyme.
I'm a total amateur poet. I would even call myself as self-taught, but poems are self-expression anyway~ Why would it need to be taught~ Why does it need rules and a fixed structure~ That's why most of my poems are free verse~ and the pattern isn't always the same. It's like a self-discovery!
But people keep telling me they don't know how to poem. Some would ask how I do it. It's weird for me cause I just look at poems and tried to imitate it without knowing hows or whatnots. Because to me, there is no definite 'how'. It's all just, what my head tells me to write~
And well, it differs from each poem. Sometimes you just resound so strongly to the topic/theme that you don't even need to think, it all just flows from your head to your hands, to the paper (screen). Sometimes you have to think a bit more about why you want to do that theme, about each and every word you're trying to use, about how the lines don't work beside each other and should be at other parts of the poems instead. But here's my usualy how-to~
- Be inspired, get a theme that interests you, or twist a theme your way.
Themes can be a random word, a happening in your life, a thought that passed by, anything~ If you need theme inspirations, check this out!- Let the words flow, what do you wish to convey about the theme?
What do you think is interesting about the theme? What do you wanna say about the theme? What emotions happened or what thought happened on the story in the poem?- Use rhymezone.com for rhymes and google.com for synonyms.
I really don't like it when someone says if you use thesaurus/rhymezone or other help that means it's not a "real" poem, not a real creative outflow. I disagree strongly! They are tools, just like the brush of a painter. The exist to aid the creation process, to allow you to create more beautiful poems. Never does using tools means your creation is invalid.- Try getting each lines as you want it and then try to restructure it if you dont think it works.
For me I like having a pattern. Sometimes the pattern is in a certain word repeated (in synonyms), sometimes it's just in having an adverb as the start of every line, sometimes it's having a gerund for the first line, about a subject on the second line, about a place on the third line, and what that lead to on the fourth line, weird structures like that which might or might not be noticable. But having this structure for me makes it easier to flow the poem~- Look at it again and see how each paragraphs flow.
Is the whole poem structure works best as is in conveying what you want to convey? What if you switch around a few paragraphs?
This is only how I make poems. Each people have their different methods, which allows them to create different art. Try to explore as you write and express. Have fun poeming!
[Partners in Rhyme] Pyoo's Poem Process (Tutorial)
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