Poetry Hacks: Tips for Writing Good Poetry and Becoming a Successful Poet

by Khyati Rathod

Writing poetry is always an incredible and exciting activity for writers of every age. Poetry writing offers writers to play a new form of writing and play with emotional words. They play with words and readers get emotional with their words. Poets had the power to make readers cry, smile, be happy, and be emotional. Here are the top tips for being a successful poet.

Read Poetry:

There is one simplest way to improve your poetry writing is to read the poetry of other expert poets like William, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. To become a better poet is constantly finding new poets and new poems that in the end become the best collection of poetry and reading a magazine to show your new voice. There is no harm to revisit your favorite poems but being a part of the Poetry community is the way to find new poets and new poems that gives you the way to create unique poetry.

Read About Writing Poetry:

Reading about writing poetry is as important as reading about poetry. Luckily there are various resources available to read about writing poetry to help you out. Improve Your Poetry Writing Skills with these 5 Books

Play with Different Poetic Forms:

There are various types of poetry available for you. Even if there is one poetry that you feel is your bread and butter, that is always worth it to your poem. Experimenting with poetry can create a different form of poetry. Try to write a short poem, something like haiku. Playing with poetry can build your poetry writing skills better and you can get a new form of poetry that fits your poetry writing skills.    

Playing with Rhyme

As kids, we always have one exposure to poetry is through simple rhyme schemes, and then we can write our first poetry with the aid of the handy rhyming dictionary.

Just Write

When it comes to writing a poem, then write a really bad poem. Write something that really embarrasses you. Start to write micro-poems, just write. Remember one thing that notebook you said would never see the light of day again? Well, this is a time to write the next one! You have to write a poem that is a bunch of really, really-like, really-bad poems. Write a bunch of bad poems and you can really get great stuff. 

Find Your Writing Style:

Now you have learned basic poetry and you have also written some poems. You can also try and experiment with new styles, now it’s time to create your own poetic style

Right now. Micro poetry is trending in the poetic world, you can write micro poetry. But you think that your poetry does not fit? Then you can share every type of poetry with the other writers and they can give the advice to write in real format. Join a poetic writing community! 

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