Writing poems can be easy, for some. Writing poems can be complicated as well. But what does one need to know about writing a poem?
Start writing
The most important thing is picking the pen up and pouring the words down on paper (or maybe tapping relentlessly on the screen of your gadget). Especially if you start feeling and then writing, put the words down to capture what you feel. You let your feelings pour out through your pen. And when you’re done, only you will know if you’ve succeeded in capturing what you felt.
But what are the proper ways to write poems?
In some definitions, a poem is a concentrated writing. Unlike prose (literature made up of complete sentences and written in paragraph forms), most poems appear in stanzas, lines after lines after lines of words that convey the author’s thoughts and symbols and emotions.
It’s the author’s choice whether to write in meters (meaning the lines have counts in syllables) or rhymes (where the end words usually sound the same). The author can write in free verse as well, not following technicalities that are very much observed in some types of poetry writing, such as the sonnets, villanelles, haiku, etc.
Choosing a topic
When you choose to write about one thing, write what you know about that thing—choosing the right words that best describes that one thing you have in mind is the foremost goal. Do not be concerned about whether the word is beautiful or artistic enough to be in a poem. For example, sure, the sunset is beautiful and awesome—but these adjectives are so generic, they do not give the sunset enough justification. But when you say the sunset was orange and in a few minutes a purple, then you have described pretty the sunset you have seen, and in some ways, you have captured the transition that happened during the time you were watching the sunset.
All in all, the best judge of what you have written is yourself. If you have managed to put the words on to a page, you have created your masterpiece.