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I’m glad you brought this up. I’m a very amateur poet so I’m always trying to get ideas on how to improve. I have noticed that my best poems are the ones where I do get specific and personal. With poetry you want to pack as much as possible into few words so if you want your poem to be effective, I think you have to get concrete. One of my favorite poems here on Story Embers is Cindy Green’s “Journal Entry”. She painted a vivid, detailed, and personal picture that I related to very much precisely because she got so specific.

As I said, I’m very much an amateur so I don’t think I have much or any advice to give. I’m interested in seeing where this discussion goes and hopefully some others will chime in.

Who are some of your favorite poets? I unfortunately have not read much poetry–I get most of my poetical inspiration from songwriters.