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How-tos for all things poetry; learn how to analyze a poem, construct a haiko, differentiate between a metaphor and simile and more.

If you get asked for a recipe to cook rice
To measure rice grains – per person You can’t acquire this kind of cup for coin ours was (bent and worn)
By Richard Abbott4 years ago in Poets
My Father Told Me...
My Father Told Me... By: Jonathan Hinternish My father told me someday I will have. Land and food A-Plenty.
By Jonathan Hinternish4 years ago in Poets
Saša Milivojev - THE REJOICING SONG
. Grateful to the skies And the darkest nights, To the moon and stars That are my night’s lights. Morning and the Mosques
By Saša Milivojev4 years ago in Poets
Magic
Magic is when you find money on the ground or when you get the last of something you wanted. Magic is when you know something good is going to happen and get a call that brings good news. Magic is when you hit all the green lights when you’re running late.
By PerceptionCo.4 years ago in Poets
How I fell in love with poetry
Missing Feelings — realjema I don’t know what you’ve been feeling looking at you I can tell you need healing Cut too deep now my heart is bleeding I know and hope I got this power in me The only thing I got from you was the billing It went wrong because my mind went missing
By real Jema4 years ago in Poets
How do you know if you're living wrong?
My brain, it won’t stop. My heart, it’s about to pop. I should feel free and alive. Instead, I feel weak and dead inside.
By Ashlie Cross4 years ago in Poets
The Answer to Life
come close, bend down I’ve a secret to tell the answer to life lies here, my dear if you read between the lines -
By Grace Downey4 years ago in Poets
Finding Forgiveness
Something hard to give and even harder to receive I did what I said I'd never do I failed myself, and even worse, you.
By Julia Dunn4 years ago in Poets
Visualize
quick glance in the mirror was all it was supposed to be. Really not expecting anything on earth to be there worth my time to see. With plenty of time to notice the demonic being staring blankly back at me. Then without flinching at all, remind everyone why I am A1 while no one else is closer than a B.
By Arthur William4 years ago in Poets
Dawn
if there was such a thing as a time machine. I would take it right back to here. And on this fateful morning years ago I would have taken my steps;
By Richard Thompson4 years ago in Poets
Decide
First off, let me begin by stating I have never had the choice to or the opportunity to arise; probably good thing to seeing as if had to be acting like the Lord of the Flies.
By Arthur Walton4 years ago in Poets
Color
What would be your first pick from a magical rainbow? The one that when you start to look it begins to glow. Is there one that always looks good, no matter the season or trend? Or did you decide on yours just cause of pressure from a close friend.
By Arthur Walton4 years ago in Poets