How to write poetry

i see different well thought out poems and a friend of mine called me and told me to write a poem i'm shocked by what she said but i promised to try. I am stumped though by the way to write a poem. a poem is a way to express your inner thoughts or fellings on something to show your powerful vocabulary and intellectin a new way but how do you decipher it? yes a poem has poetic devices and structures but poetry is the art of expression and mental picturing how to write it? plz help me find the answer if you can't thanks for trying

ask Writch, Rael, some of the ppl from the Poets and Writers club, or lulzman11

i write poetry, but my poetry stinks!

let me think so i can decipher it and explain something to help give a well thought answer to your problem as you stated here

well let's think shall we

i suck at writn poems...u can ask trish

i started on one that i think is pretty good....but i think it sucks

how bout i write a crappy poem about anger, and cheating, and betrayal to show you EMOTIONAL poetry?!

u need to put YOURSELF into it, pour your emotions onto it, thats what makes most poems awesome, just dont make it a story

Don't look towards me; I'm a writer.

poetry is nuthin lie wat i write so i cant give advice...or at least not much

ok i can give sum advice...

rhymes r fun, keep the rhythm flowin, make sure it has feeling

no offense or anything, but as you can see by my poetry,  i HATE rhyming poems, rhyming poetry to me is like having boundries on your feeling, and plus it can be difficult to find rhyming words, but the cat and the hat was brilliant!

Bump!

Thank you!

Draw me a poem

When time is racing

As the day passes

A dizzying waltz beats time

Three ellipsis

Two points of explanation

To explore the minutes that pass

The gears are moving

A comma sets the rhythm

An emotion suspends its flight

Words, sentences, lines that run

The horizontal seeks the vertical

One idea then another

A final point to finish

Then put down the pen

At the edge of the chessboard.

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Have a nice day everyone.

Manfreto