Question for you POETS out there?

Question

In your very own opinion, what is the easiest type of poetry, to learn out there? Please give a reason ,why you chose the type you did! Thanks for all your info, and explainations!

Answer 1

Personally i like free write. whenever I write it usually just flows out like that. instead o f trying to force out a rhyming poem.  sometimes when poems rhyme they can get a little corny if you don't do it right. Hope this helped!  :)

Answer 2

Haikus are. They have only 17 syllables (5-7-5) and don't have to rhyme. You can express yourself, and still use a form.

Answer 3

probably free verse but that can easily turn into a speech, rant etc...Free verse can still be poetic with alot of imagery and metaphors

I love rhyming poetry but it cannot be basic, or it sounds sing song. The words need to be raw and ascend beyond the usual or it sounds cliche. Not every sentence as to rhyme. Sometimes I just rhyme the 1st and 4th lines or 2nd and 4th--It just cannot be predicable. That can be hard. Rhyming is a good start i think and then go into free verse

Answer 4

I am mostly a fiction writer, I'm not sure I'm great with poetry, but I did write this short one once during frustrating times. I will try to get it in sometime this weekend.  It is sort of a free write, it doesn't rhyme.  Look for it, and tell me what you think.

Answer 5

I started writing as a teenager. It was all inspired by my hormones, and it was all c**p. Somewhat later I was in the "What-is the- true-meaning-of-life-this-is-the-problem... indignant-I-have-the-answers-this-is-wha... stage. Then I graduated to the school of "I'm-feelin'-so-low-but-I-want-you-to-kn... period. Now I just want to make  someone smile. I like rhyme, I like good grammar, spelling, punctuation, but I'm not attached to any of that. I like musicality and honesty, I am attached to those. My nature is intellectual, and I try to rid myself of that when I write. I like jokes, especially with wordplay.

Answer 6

Well, rhyming is restricted, but lots of people start out with that... I personally think free verse is easiest. It still needs rhythm and everything, but I feel it's a better way to express my feelings. Everything can just come out... I don't need to rhyme everything, plus I rhyme horribly. Ex: You say that's an ordinary star/You say my theories are bizarre. Even I dislike my rhymes!

Back to the point. Sometimes when you rhyme, you can't say everything because there isn't a word that rhymes and fits, but the word you need a rhyme for is too perfect to lose! And in a haiku, everything is so short... they are almost always beautiful, but I can't shorten everything up enough. There are so many more ways of poetry, but these are the main three I use.

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

if you are a very organized person who works well with rules, I would start with rhyme, possibly even sonnets.  they have very explicit instructions and are relatively simple to start.  good examples are shakesperian (english) sonnets.

if you are more creative and free, I would stick with free verse.  you can do pretty much anything you want, and it can sound good if you work at it.

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Answer 8

It depends in what frame of mind you are in. Writers block is the biggest hurdle. I'll put below Haiku, free verse (last verse of a poem of mine) and rhyme (last verse of a poem of mine). Haiku was the easiest :

Haiku

Assimilating

You by touch taste smell and sound

For I cannot see

Free Verse

This is my loss – that

We did not look at ceilings

Silently, beside each other

Spent. on sweat soaked sheets

Rhyme

I’ll pack up my bags

And board that plane

Sober and thoughtful

Incredibly sane

But in my memory

There will remain

Fragments of her

Recalled in pain

I would choose rhyme for expressing myself.

Hope this makes some sense

Cheers

Answer 9

I'm with King on this - haikus to start, limericks next possibly.

Read a lot before trying to get an idea of what style you like and can relate to.

Jeff turned mopeing into poeming for fun and profit. I did too. Divorce did it for me. Angry free verse to start then rhyming.....Write small poems for people to celebrate birthdays and Xmas etc. Something themed that you enjoy.

Answer 10

It just basically comes out like I can't tell you how many times I've been laying trying to sleep and a couple of lines pop up and it just comes from there