WHICH FORM OF POETRY SHOULD I WRITE?

Which form of poetry should a poet write? Whoa, that's a million dollar question! Why should I follow protocol to write a poem? My composition is based on what I feel,see, taste, hear and smell around or within me! I should write the way I want to and it will make sense because that's me and when you the reader reads it, hmm.. classify it the way you want don't you think so? I need comments on this readers?

POETRY WRITING

I hope you are back once again friends in good health and disposition ready to grind your nose deep into putting down your experiences in writing for those who did not have the opportunity to visit where you travelled to read and enjoy? Imagine those far flung beautiful lands you visited? Those fantastic coastal lowlands you gazed at and those sandy beaches you threaded on, bring them out into poetic forms so that the images it evokes in man can make one decide to spend the next holidays there or better still quote in novels and stories. Sit down now and start writing, we are waiting for your work. Who knows, you might be the next William Blake.

TYPES OF POEMS

There are different poems written by different poets in the world and these poems can be broadly classified into different forms in which they occur. Some of them are as follows; 1. Acrostic poems 2. Diamante poems 3. Concrete poems 4. Dramatic poems 5. Cinquain poems 6. Canzone poems 7. Ballads 8. Couplet 9. Iambic pentameter 10. Haiku 11. Epic 12. Limericks 13. Free verse 14. Ghazal 15. Jintishi 16. Sestina 17. Ode 18. Pastourelle/ pastoral 19. Pantoum 20. Sonnet 21. Lyric 22. Narrative poems 23. Sijo 24. Villanele 25. Nature poems 26. Tanko poems etc. There are many more poems nowadays due to more poets writing in different poetic forms using different devices and techniques for instance wedding poems and many others for different occassions. But the ones above can help you to identify the class of poem you are writing.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS !

Merry Christmas friends and a happy new year with many more years to come! Have a wonderful time and remember, when you return or while you are still there, write poems on where you are right now, what you have seen, felt or heard and make it worth your while. See you when you get back. Cheri o!

POETRY

No matter the definition that is given to poetry, expressing it from my own point of view, I feel poetry to be a collection of the emotions, feelings, sight and insight, innermost thought that a writer has within or outside him/her that is spilled out and written to ease oneself.. You check it out, what I feel is what I express, what I see is what I put down the way I see it and so on. That is it. More will be coming out in this blog friends about poems from the heart. Have a nice time.