Mon 16 Mar 2009
Where do you get your poetic inspiration?
Posted by echan76 under Poetry
Austin R asked:
I have recently developed a liking for poetry. I love reading it, however I am never able to come up with a poem of my own. Or at least not one that sounds very good.
I have recently developed a liking for poetry. I love reading it, however I am never able to come up with a poem of my own. Or at least not one that sounds very good.
So where do you get your inspiration?
And maybe, is there any form of poetry (e.g. Villanelle, Haiku, Sonnet) that is more effective?
Any help is appreciated.
So there’s this guy in my Spanish class who I think about pretty much all the time…
I’m really weird. So is he.
And he is incredibly smart and handsome.
I’m pretty sure he likes me, but nothing will ever stem from it because we’re both too shy and quiet to talk to one another.
We’re also really different–I quilt and paint pictures of flowers, he smokes pot and plays guitar in a heavy metal rock band.. xD
But yeah… I’ve resorted to writing corny, lovesick free-verse.
Here are some of the poems that I’ve posted on Answers…
(I don’t expect you to actually read them all.)
I get my poetic inspiration from things that happen in everyday life, like I like a guy and I would spend long nights thinking about him so I wrote a poem about what I was thinking about. I like free-verse better because it does not have to rhyme. Hope this helps,remember just start writing and use stuff in real life.
To me poetry is a gift, either you have it or you don’t…as it is with many gifts. Poetry to me is inspired by the Lord…it’s all that I know…for positive inspirational and happy poetry…
You can try to sit down and write something and then just let the words flow, you may be a poet of free flowing verses and not the rhyming poet…either way, get the pad, the pen and sit there quietly and wait for it to start flowing on the paper if it does not, change your area where you are sitting.
Also try to use a nice flowing ink(ball point) pen, a smaller pen. You’ve got to have the right tools, it if flows better online on the desktop, then try it and see…I normally use the pen and pad with dates and times I start and stop writing…on numbered pages that way you can see how the writing flows and when…
Try to move toward a serene quiet area and also try writing at the library where it is extremely quiet, hope that this helps…
Published Author/Poet/Writer of Poem Collections,
Florence Rosie Givens
sometimes I get inspired by writing about my lack of inspiration, and write about searching for it.
Where does poetry come from? the shadows between the folds of the sunconscious. The unhearable stillness whispers it on a winter morning. It is seared onto the page by the angry stare of that boy who fell off his bike and cried, and I did nothing to help him. First I looked for poetry, but now it looks for me.