POETRY LESSON 07:
POETRY WRITING CLASSES
POETRY CRAFT AND CREATIVITY?
* CRAFTING: WHAT STRUCTURES ARE YOU USING * TECHNIQUE: HOW CREATIVELY YOU USE THOSE STRUCTURES* BEYONDNESS: WILL YOUR READER FORGET THEIR DAY* CRAFTING: STRUCTURES ARE YOU USING.
1) Are you eliminating words is, am was, were, are, will and be from your poetry? Use search and replace to do this.
2) Eliminating weak or confusing and hazy, foggy verbs and nouns? Use search and replace to do this.
3) Read your poem out loud or use a program that reads your words back to you?
4) Did you avoid all repetitions and redundancies in your work? Saying what you already said more than once in a line or stanza, for example.
5) Did you eliminate all unnecessary words or side trips in your poem having no business distracting the reader from your meaning?
6) Did you zap out all "ly" adverb words? Use search and replace for this.
7) Did you zap out all "ion" "tion" "ency" "ization" "ment" "that" "there" words, addition, condition for example? Use search and replace for this.
8) Do your stanzas provide the great movements your poem drama demands? Are you using the right stanzas?
* TECHNIQUE: HOW CREATIVELY YOU USE THOSE STRUCTURES
Using structured poetry and writing techniques creatively will set you apart from other poets.
1) Before you write take a moment of silence. Close your eyes and imagine you are writing an immortal poem of great significance. Pray to your Goddess or God if you must. But put yourself in the "mood of greatness." Then forget about it. Open your eyes and begin to write your poem.
2) Think creatively or how to use structure techniques you now know in new ways, with new patterns, in new moods and styles.
3) Type a favorite great poem or beautiful poem you stored in your file. Then afterwards, write your own poem.
4) Try to write the best word, after best word, after best word. Try to write the best line, after best line, after best line.
5) Revise, edit, switch words and lines around, rearrange information given, reduce words, add where words need adding.
6) Have fun saying what you truly believe. Strive for truth above all else.
7) Using Metonymy, metaphors, similes, analogies, personification in your poem?
8) Rethought your poem until it is so clear in your mind you know exactly what you want to say.
9) Used a sprinkle of jargon words to make your poetic point. Too much jargon kills a poem.
* BEYONDNESS: WILL YOUR READER FORGET THEIR DAY?
1) Poems exists already in the spirit world. Your job is to bring the poem down to earth using the best words, lines and stanzas using structure and creative technique and great content or meaning.
2) Some poems easily come down from the spirit into the earth. Other poems are a struggle. Still again, other poems you were made to write and others may find them hard to conceive of, but not you. We are all unique. We all have something unique to say from what we experience.
3) Understand poetry is different from prose. Prose exists on the mountaintop. Poetry exist in the heavens!
If you write moving poetry, your reader will forget their problems and worries and circumstances for a brief moment. Like a movie helps one escape the boredom and tediousness of life tasks; so too can a poem take one into the realm of beyondness.
SO GET OUT THERE AND PUT PEN/PENCIL TO PAPER
OR COMPUTER KEYBOARD TO SCREEN AND WRITE YOUR POEM!
This page was last updated: May 11, 2011
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