1. LET YOURSELF GO
Know that you already have everything you need to write great poetry. You have experience. You've grown up, or may still be growing up. You have interacted with different kinds of people, been in different situations, felt elated, humiliated, manic, numb... The beauty is in variety. Although all of us have been through the same emotional states, everyone will have different reasons for feeling the way they do, will experience these states in a different manner and each state will affect every single person in a different way. If I tell a hundred people to imagine and draw a decorated tree, I will get a hundred different pictures. Maybe, there will be a few fir trees, and maybe some of them will be the same length, but that is where the similarities will end. Each vision would be interesting and valuable because each would give me a different perspective on the same thing. This is, I believe, why we enjoy poetry as much as we do - it gives us fresh perspectives on old things. Reading poetry often feels to me like looking at things through other people's eyes.
So, brainstorm. Pour your heart out. What's shocked you? What's made you tick? If you're crazy enough to want to tell the whole world about it, chances are, so will I.
I don't care how crazy it is. Get the idea naked!
Got it? Got the gist? The impulse? The key? The meaning? The theme? Now, stop.
Slowly...
Carefully...
dress it -
Up.
Add and subtract, turn,
And back.
Smooth
to the touch.
Entrance
your audience;
do not
make
it
stop.
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