Poets and Styles

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Permalink Reply by Samantha on January 5, 2009 at 5:37am

Well not that I write a ton of poetry, but mine usually rhymes. There were those darker periods in my teen years though..lol But my favorite thing to do, like the poem I posted already is to take a word like LOVE and write a poem spelling that word. I also did that with my sons disorder of Angelman Syndrome (you can see it on my page here at twittermoms) I find it helps me to really define the area I am trying to describe. Like just the other day I was looking at the word BRIDE & thinking about a poem, so far some of the words I have come up with are Beauty, Respect, Intelligence, Devoted & Elegance. Then I work out the lines from there.

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Permalink Reply by Tracey W. on January 5, 2009 at 7:13am

I believe I've always had my own style. It isn't always what's popular at the time, but it's what works for me at that particular moment. I do find that when I'm having inspiration problems, I like to write in form. I enjoy that and there are so many great forms I have yet to explore. Great question!

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Permalink Reply by Pamilla deLeon- Lewis on January 6, 2009 at 8:24am

I admire many authors of prose and poetry but I have my own style of both, at least that is what I have always been told. I couldn't write a paper for anyone in college- I always got busted. I was told by my professor and others that I have a very distinctive style of writing that is all my own- whatever that means...lol.
As for poetry I love rhyming poems; I'm stuck on iambic pentameters... and being a songwriter, I suppose, my poetry and my song lyrics become blurred at times...my poems are so rhythmic that at times they seem to come alive and evolve into a song... Has that ever happened to any of you?
Can we post any of our poetry here?

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Permalink Reply by Amberrunsamuck on January 16, 2009 at 12:34pm

Nothing comes out of me that didn't go into me first, so I do (from hindsight) see that I emulate. Finding my own voice has almost become the ability to hodge podge what I'm injesting (music included).

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Permalink Reply by jaha_knight on January 31, 2009 at 4:42pm

It's easy to define yourself. I watch and listen to other poets with the intention of not being like them. I love my style, I'm more of a storyteller. I love to see when the audience gets an inference or understand exactly what I'm saying in a metaphor. I want to tell a small story in 3 minutes. Sometimes a couple lines rhyme and sometimes they don't. I never cover what someone else is doing. Where's the originality in that? I don't think you can deliver a piece convincingly unless your heart is in it.

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Permalink Reply by Amy S on October 25, 2009 at 7:17pm

I tend to write about what I know best ,and those are the life experiences. I also write about what's going on in my surroundings or by observation of others. I don't like to rhyme much. I want it to flow ,and for people to be able to read it, and it reach out to them.

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