My FIRST poetry thread

what makes a good poem? what separates a good poem from a bad poem?

first off, good poems have lots of metaphors / alliteration

>this thread again
Just read Milk and Honey. That's got everything you need to know man.

will do

emphasis on the word everything.

lel just b urself and rhyme :^)

unironically start with simple ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme 4 stanza poems on a topic. This will get you comfortable talking about something outside of a prose-like context. You'll also find that your mind will start have ideas that don't fit inside those molds. After you start to only think in vivid, nonrhyming phrases, branch out. If you want to challenge yourself, find a poetic form and work on it until you create something you like, then move onto a second one.

Dont listen to this guy, he's a skeleton

it depends on a few things, OP

>IF YOU WANT TO MAKE BANK
pander to those hopeless tumblrinas and cut your dick off. write a solid paragraph about your experience and then press the enter key randomly, like this:
my peepee it
leaves me
but
atleast i hav
e my
dignity.

-retard mcnodick

>IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BE A POET
start with the most mundane rhymescheme and get a feel for alliteration and dictiom; you need to develop a solid vocabulary before anything. read the classics, of course. learn scansion. lots of nitty gritties. after that, vomit words onto a paper and just keep going, no matter how edgy or disgusting. eventually, you'll develop a feel for it and probably end up writing something that you like but no one else does.

>what makes a good poem?
perfect form, a good poem has perfect form
a great poem has perfect form and perfect word choice

I would like to clarify that by form I mean more than structure and meter, but every mechanic has to work symbolically towards one goal.

look at Ezra Pound's Station of the Metro for an easy piece to pick apart this way.