What to write a poem about topics
A Guide To Writing A Poem
hello I'm Maggie Hammond I teach on the
complete Creative Writing course and I
worked as a novelist a publisher a
journalist and I'm the author of
creative writing for dummies I'm here to
answer some common questions about
writing the great thing about writing a
poem is that you can write it anywhere
sometimes people say what is poem about
what do I write a poem about and poems
are usually about moods they're about
emotions feelings so if you feel joyful
if you feel sad those are good points to
start a poem from you might just decide
to describe something look around your
house it doesn't matter what it is just
have fun with writing poem of words just
getting some words on the page I think
it's important to write by hand I think
when you write a poem by hand you get a
connection between your body and the
page and that's important with the poem
it's important somehow to get the
feelings across and the other beauty of
writing by hand is that if you change
the poem afterwards if you read it
through and you change a word or you
move a sentence around you can see what
you've done and you can always go back
to the original poem there are some
simple exercises you can do to get you
started if you don't seem to be getting
anywhere write down on some scraps of
paper a list of words a list of feelings
happiness jealousy anger write down
about ten or twelve of them and then at
random on other pieces of paper write
down twelve ordinary objects write down
a kettle a flower a sausage and then
shuffle the bits of paper and pick one
object and one emotion you might end up
with something really strange you might
have the flower of jealousy you might
have the kettle of rage you might have
the sausage of happiness
those are all great things to get you
writing a poem just play around with the
words and see what comes up
a poem doesn't have to rhyme and it
doesn't have to fit any particular form
to something called free verse but it is
important to listen to the sounds of the
words poetry is all about sound so it's
always important to read your poem aloud
if you read it aloud you'll hear how it
sounds you'll hear when the words sound
right and that's the best way to finish
off a poem
