What got you started in writing poetry?
I started writing poetry three years ago when my grandfather passed away and I wrote a poem to get over the grief. I have continued writing as a personal stress reliever, journal technique, and I have started carrying a journal with me and I now am beginning to crave to write whenever I am inspired. That does not mean I am good, it means I am learning. I don't want to be a poet, I am writing poetry to learn to write. It is easier than trying to write a story because it is short.
A good way to start writing poetry is to try haiku. Then write a series of haikus together as a poem. If you have trouble rhyming, don't. Read about it first, as it is not easy. I am very bad at it as I just started trying. A poem shows a story through sensory images. It answers the questions: who, what, when where, why, and how. It shows you the senses of the subject. It shows you its perspective and story. |
