Our THEME CHALLENGE for today is: NOW, NOT LATER? Write a 4-line poem on the theme: NOW, NOT LATER You MUST use the phrase ‘NOW, NOT LATER’ in the verses...
What makes someone a ‘good poet’ is the ability to express yourself in your own unique way, taking existing ‘rules’ of poetry and bending [not ignoring them] them to your...
Personally, I think every poem (with the exception of spontaneous spoken word) needs to be retouched after it is originally penned because: Every poem, to become art, must be deliberately...
A Cinquain is a short non-rhyming poem of 5 lines developed by Adalaide Crapsey. Note that it is pronounced “sin-cane,” not “sin-kwane”. This class of poetic forms is very popular...
Put candidly, I think every poet who wants to write rhyming poems needs first to learn how to write without rhymes. First step for a poet hoping to pen good...
The aim: to prompt to action through detachment. The mood: to play on this paradox, standing suspended between anger, revolt, disgust, sorrow, admiration or indifference, so as to finally assert...
For all those who begin the class in poetry, you must have been taught the fundamentals by the rector and other lecturers who have spent time here to bring us...
I have witnessed …the death Of many hills Who died the death Of gradual tractor graze. I have witnessed …the fall Of many mountains Who crumbled before The feet of...
To my poet and non-poet friends… Poetry writing is an interesting craft that could be acquired via personal interest, association with people of like minds, conscious learning, etc. Mindful of its features/rudiments...
So you want to become a writer (poet)? Here are 7 Rules all beginners should follow. Do not write long sentences. A sentence should not have more than ten or...
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