Hey guys
So today's podcast is how to write a poem getting started and I'll give you the top five ways to get your creative juices
flowing and how to write a poem if you've never done it before or you might discover something that you haven't tried
So number one if you want to start writing a poem
Go online and find writing prompts or poem prompts now prompts are
They could be sentence stems so they might give you the beginning of a sentence and you complete the sentence or fill in the blanks
They might give you an idea such as write a poem about your pet write a poem about your mother a poem about
heartbreak
Etc, etc
So they're just ways to jog your memory and give you ideas that you might not have thought of yourself and there's tons of them
Online so look up writing prompts or poetry prompts
There's a group called the dirty thirty which is on Facebook and during April
They put up a prompt every day and you can respond to that
So there are lots of groups around and you can talk to a friend see what kind of prompts they have
And that's a great way just to jolt your creativity if you're feeling a bit stuck
Number two, the second one is choose a structure or form
so you might like to try and choose a formal structure like a haiku or
sestina
Any type of poetry form, so just have a google have a look at poetry form
And then what you do is you just start writing in that form. So for example, they might say
Two syllables in one line five syllables in the next line two in the next line
so you just follow the structure and use that as like a
template or a base to build a poem from and that's really fun and there's heaps of different styles to try and
The third way is you could start writing stream-of-consciousness
now a lot of people like to do automatic writing or stream of consciousness writing is kind of like journaling so you want to just
Write down whatever comes to mind and just get the pen moving on the paper or get those keys tapping on your keyboard
so that's a good way just to get and
Get going get moving just write whatever comes to mind don't censor at all and you don't have to show it to anyone
So it's not to be edited. It's just a way to get
Like a I guess warm-up exercise before you go for a run
So then you can shape it later and that's just a good way to start if you're not sure how to start upon
the next one number four is what I like to call the kernel and you might have
Thought of something during the day you might have seen someone interesting on the train
Picked up something off the ground and maybe keep a little bit of a notebook
So for these sorts of things and I call it a kernel so what it is
It's like a seed so you find a seed and you go. I'm quite interested in the idea of
Climate change and that's your seed and you go. Okay. I'm just gonna write about climate change
I'm just gonna write whatever comes to mind about that topic even if you want to brainstorm it do a little
diagram with sub word in the middle and right around it and then um,
you can shape it from there and having a little kernel or a
Seed is a great way to start and it you never know what can blossom or grow from that seed
And finally the last one
Actually, we've got six points. So the fifth point is
wordplay, so
Start with a word and maybe try word-association or twist the word around find its opposite find something that connects to that word
So just play around with the words themselves. That's quite fun
You might even just like to do it a big piece of paper with a colored pen
And just and play around with the sounds of the words and the look of the words, and I'm not so much
focusing on the content or the structure and that's quite a fun way because
What it does it stimulates the connections in your brain to think okay?
I could I could jumping-off point to something else and it creates a creative connection. So that's a really fun thing
It's just to play around with words. You might like to use magnetic poetry or write words on paper and cut them up
Not even just cut words out of magazines
Which leads me to my last one, which is six which is steel or collage
so sometimes it's called blackout poetry and what you can do is find a page when I'll book a page of a magazine and
Something that someone has already written or a poem that you like. You might want to print it off and
Cut it up. And then what you do is with a black marker pen you mark off certain words
Just to make a whole new poem and that's a really visual way if you're a really a visual person or an fadi person
That's a great way to write a poem as well
So if you have any other ways that you guys write poems and please drop them in the comments below
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