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Are you an aspiring poet?  Are you a published poet?  Are you just someone that likes to indulge your creative side and write poetry?  Do you like to read poetry? Or do you just love poetry?

Here are some useful and helpful writing hints to write more substantive and creative poems.

1. Know Your Goal

If you don’t know where you’re going, how can you get there? You need to know what you are trying to accomplish before you begin any project. Writing a poem is no exception. Before you begin, ask yourself what you want your poem to “do”. Do you want your poem to to describe an event in your life, protest a social injustice, or describe the beauty of nature? Once your know the goal of your poem, you can conform your writing to that goal. Take each main element in your poem and make it serve the main purpose of the poem. (more…)