Writing Poetry

Ok, I am suffering from severe writer's block. Is anyone available to help me? Send me a message or post something so I will recover and have ideas again.
~Dallas

i was just pondering (as i often do while i shouldnt...) do the majority of writers have 'pen names'?

If so, should i adopt one, even though i am happy with using my name?

yours in thought, Dana

In your opinion, what must a piece of literature contain in order to have or achieve any form of artistic merit?

Hey everyone.
I'm just sayin ' yo, wat up? ! ' to all you fellow poets. If you would like me to read a poem of yours comment on mine, and ill comment back. Thats how i do.
C Yaz
Sweetie Sarah

Heya everyone!

Hope you're all doing well! I was wondering if you could read a couple of my poems (I know there are quite a few but recently I've been writing loads so I just uploaded them all! : P) .

For people who are in a romantic mood I'd recommend:
Butterfly Boy
Supernaturally Yours
Never Been Kissed
The Girl Next Door.

For those you you who want to have a laugh, I'd recommend
Never Been Kissed
The Girl Next Door
Y Fronts

The poems which are quite serious are:
Road To Normality
The Immortal Question: Why?
The Meaningless Sorry.

You don't have to read all of them if you don't want to, but I'd be really grateful if you did. I'll leave comments on yours too! Thanks very much!

:)

I personally feel and this is only my opinion, of course, that true inspiration comes when we set our egos aside and just let the words flow. There was one brief period inmy life when it seemed as though I was unable to write anything at all. I believe the major hindrance came from a battle with my ego. I later learned the secrets of writing good poetry. Let your spirit guide you, write from the heart and believe in yourself! Lastly, never force your writing because it will show in your work. Oh, and before I forget it, always remember Rule #1. Write! Write! Write! Make time to write. It's alot like playing the piano. The more you practice the better you get at it!

Hey All my name is Marissa Ingram, I was wondering if any1 had any tips on writing really good poetry. I have some ideas but I'd like more so my poetry can be better than it is now.

Thank you for reading.: -)

Any of you have any actualy methods or processes or even rituals that you go through before beginning a piece?

Poem: 3199187 - A Prayer of Anselm
Member: Andrew Konisberg

Comment: Whilst being interested in theology, I find expressed religious belief often an awkward read. This is because -almost inevitably- comes a line about God being mysterious, the narrator not being fit enough to touch to touch the hem of God's garment etcetera or talk about a great plan...Paley's teleological argument. I am aware that you have credited this piece to Anselm but I read your two recent 'prayers' and struggled with them for the same reasons. If it makes sense, I find the approach to much of the love-based poetry here guilty of similar tensions. It's not really a negative relationship I have with the concept of God (or love) , it's just the way the theme is dealt with. Nice to see Anselm making an 'appearance' on the site though.


Poem: 3199187 - A Prayer of Anselm
Member: Mike Finley

Comment: Thanks, Andrew. I merely posted Anselm, Merton etc for the folks here who have expressed some interest in this kind of poetry.

My attitude is: Nothing's for Everybody. One of the problems a poem has is, who is it for?

Should we assume 'minimum values' in our readers - not taking anything for granted in a poem, no assuming any conviction of any kind on the reader - in order to assure maximum agreement on an assertion?

This is a form of bending over backward politicalcorrectness - not wanting to offend anyone by mentioning that there is a backstory to the universe that so tickles and perplexes us.

It is the heart of the notion of pluralism and it is built on fairness and it is in many ways A Good Thing.

But - I can't have all the poetry palaver I want there, so I will look elsewhere besides.

Hi everyone,

Something that I wanted to know:

What is 'haiku' about. I hear a lot of discussion on this topic in this site and other, but till date I got to understand nothing but this that it is always very tiny. I may sound awkward - but the truth is I don't know and I NEED to know- I am in class 11 and till now I read nothing called haiku in my English syllabus or the poetry books I have referred to. Could I posssibly be helped?

Thx, - N.D.