-making your life experiences into poems.
http://wywy.essortment.com/poetryinspirati_rcka.htm
-Poetic inspiration can come in many shapes and sizes...
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8639.asp
-Charles H. Johnson, an award-winning poet and journalist, began writing poetry while stationed in Vietnam.
‘The poet is a little god.” Charles H. Johnson often quotes this line by Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro in his poetry workshops. “When you write a poem,” he explains, “you create a world — you get to run a world on a sheet of paper, no matter where you happen to be.”
Johnson, who lives in Red Bank with his wife, speaks from experience. He wrote his first poem in Vietnam. A graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he was a member of the ROTC, Johnson volunteered for combat as an infantry lieutenant.
“In college I had gotten special training with a Ranger unit. I had been taught how to survive in the jungle,” he said. “I wanted to keep as many of my people alive as I could, and I did. I didn’t lose anybody. That’s something I’m very proud of.”
http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2004/1117/Front_Page/027.html
-Poetry
All types of art can be used as an inspiration for poetry. A good starting point is to have children
use all their senses to experience the work of art. Keep in mind that not all poems rhyme and that
not all poems have to be made out of complete sentences!
http://www.k-state.edu/bma/exhib/2004/photo-curriculum/pdfs/poetry.pdf
Poems may come from every aspect of our day to day lives. Our emotions, actions, happenings and things that are even unseen can all spark up some poetry.
THINGS TO AVOID
-Life and truth in a nutshell
*avoid broad topics that couldn't be concluded fully unless given a 400 page philosophical thesis
This type of topic will make one barrow from other poets from the past.
-The blind puppy on the freeway
*avoid "unearned emotions" that have no build or depth.
These emotional statements can rarely have the same effect on the second read. Leave it up to the greeting cards!
-I bleed, I DIE for YOU!
*Don't self loothe because nobody cares.
Wait awhile to write about deep emotional events because that will help you to get a clear perstpective and to not sound so stupid.
SOURCES OF POETRY SHOULD COME FROM:
=Personal Experience
Dramatic, happy, sad, joyous, exc events
=Ambivalent Feelings
-combining two emotions, (love and hate, desire and fear, pride and pity)
+Be honest
Ask yourself these questions:
Did I really fell that?
Was that all I felt?
Will I be able to make the reader feel the same emotions.
-Use your senses (conveys familiarity)
-Use Language that is unique.
don't follow trends to the extent that you use cliche.
"Three Genres: The writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama" Fifth edition, Stephen Minot
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