How to write a poem

1. POEMS
Mrs. Carolina Morales

2. Brainstorm your ideas: You could try brainstorming techniques like mind
mapping or making lists of images or ideas. These techniques can help you
generate inspiration for your poem.
Get inspired by the environment and those close to you: You could try writing a
poem about a person who is important to you in your life, such as your mother
your best friend.
Pick a specific theme or idea. You can start your poem by focusing on a specific
theme or idea that you find fascinating or interesting. Picking a specific theme
idea to focus on in the poem can give your poem a clear goal or objective. This
can make it easier for you to narrow down what images and descriptions you
going to use in your poem

3. • Choose a poetic form:
• stanzas, or sections, rather than paragraphs •
• Complete sentences that are broken up into separate lines
• language that breaks certain rules— for example, Woodson sometimes uses
sentence fragments and nonstandard capitalization (see the sentence
in lines 32–36 of “believing”).
• Woodson’s choice to tell her story through poems affects how readers
understand it. It allows Woodson to emphasize certain words, phrases, and
ideas. She also uses storytelling elements, such as dialogue. This combination
poetry and storytelling helps Woodson immerse readers even more deeply
her childhood world.

4. •
Focus on the five senses: Use sensory detail to really make your poem come alive. Consider how the
subject of your poem might, smell, sound, look, taste, and feel. Include sensory details whenever
to make your poem feel more descriptive.For example, maybe in your poem about tennis, you write
about the smell of the grass courts, the sound of the ball hitting your racket
• Use literary devices. Many shape poems use literary devices like rhyme, repetition, and metaphor.
These devices can be a good way to inject energy and engagement into your poem.Rhyme: This is a
pattern of words that produce the same sound or similar sounds.[13] Rhyme is often used in shape
as a way to tie the lines together
• Repetition: This is a pattern of the same words that repeat in sequence
• Metaphor: Metaphors are used often in poetry. In metaphor, a meaning or identity is given to the
by way of another subject.[16] For example, if you are writing about tennis, you may use the metaphor:
“The racket is my sword in battle, the court is my green battlefield.”