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MyClipboardIsMyViolin replied to the topic Hello everyone! in the forum Introduce Yourself 7 years, 1 month ago
Ah! Poetry resources. Beyond reading a lot of poetry and learning from that, there are some good posts on the blog. The Roar on the Other Side is a really good book about poetry. There’s also this Story Embers conversation, which you might find helpful. Hopefully that’s not overwhelming.This is a good list, yes. Another book that budding poets may find useful is [i]Poetry 180[/i] by Billy Collins. It’s actually a collection of [i]really,[/i] high quality poems that are sooo good. It’s like, poems that you may actually enjoy reading, which can help you find your poetic voice and find your groove. I’m partial to “Did You Miss Anything?” and “Message: Bottle #32” in there.
I see what you mean now, and I agree.As for poetry, I work most in free verse and set forms (even though they require math. ;)) Ah, visual poetry is amazing. Have you tried blackout poetry?
Yeah, there are secular music artists who use “popular appeal” as an excuse for poor quality. Christians aren’t unique in this respect at all.No, I haven’t tried blackout poetry. It strikes me as a waste of good books. I have tried the version where you don’t ruin the book and instead take words out of a chapter of a book and make a poem, and the result struck me as unsatisfactory. Maybe it was the book involved.
*headscratch* I do enjoy writing poems based on other books, though, but the reason I enjoy doing that is engaging with the books in question from a Christian perspective without it being like an essay. I like poetry because it conveys emotion easier than other forms of writing, at least from my perspective. If I have to focus [i]too[/i] much on form and constrained form, it takes away from that. But to each their own. 😀
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