Why (Poets only. If you have written atleast one peom I count you)?

I usually write good poems when I let my emotions flow into them. How ever, there has been times when I just had a thought and wrote about it(though I’ve inserted emotion into it, the write wasn’t ruled by a personal emotion). You don’t always need motivation, or even a feel for it. Just a thought. I’ve seen poets write amazing poems without incorporating any emotion into it at all(usually males, I’ve yet to see a female poet be able to do it and have it half as good). It’s just the way you write it. How it’s described, how it’s conveyed. They way about doing it. It’s a bit hard to explain. Perhaps go to devaintart.com ant scan through some poems written by males and females, and see how they do it, just look at it, absorb it. I highly recommend ScarletLetters and nyxiathewarrior (neither are mine btw, just thought I should throw that out there before someone thinks I’m on a high horse). Then compare it with other poets. Then look at what you do(don’t compare yourself to other poets on how good you are, just look at how you write it, the style) and get a good feel for what you do, then harness it and make it better. That’s about all I can say other than practice.

If you can, participate in a poet’s chatroom or something. At least once a week I go to a poetry chatroom on AOL(you can also go to it if you have AIM), it’s called PTG. What we do is “poetry tag”. Who ever goes first is tagged with a topic, they’ll write about the topic after being tagged then tag someone else with another topic, ect. It defiantly helps, and it’s fun ^_^ Perhaps you can get together with a group of friends and try it.