Amateur poetry writing

there are absolutely zero rules to writing poetry!! all poetry is poetry if u want it to be poetry ^^ if u need an idea u can go onto my blog and peep one of mine 👀

This is my favorite one ive writen as of late

Dandelion girl in a rose bud world

She opened her eyes as her petals unfurled

She didn't understand 

What she was looking at as the world panned

Oh! Silly little dandelion girl, haven't you heard?

There's a great big monster covered in fur!

The monsters gonna come and take you away!

Oh, silly little dandelion girl, we wish you could stay!

We think your as beautiful and perfect as we,

But this is a rose bed when no dandelions can be

The monsters gonna come and show you some love 

It's a poisoned rain that comes from above

Do not trust them, dandelion girl. 

It's an unbearable pain that will make you hurl

I'm so sorry for this dandelion girl

But you shouldn't have been born in a rose bud world

tbh, there are no rules really. if it flows it flows. if it rhymes it rhymes. don't worry to much about it

Hey! I also really like free form poetry and have been recently testing out and investigating new ways of writing but here's one of my favourite poems I've written.

Will you let me be your organ donor?

Cut me open from top to bottom, and retrieve from bone and flesh all that you see fit.  

Let my heart, still saturated with blood, beat for you as it once did for me. 

Let my lungs, breathe your air in, and hold it softly within their grasp until you urge them to set it free. 

Scavenge through me for as long as you need and leave me as empty as I could possibly be. 

Once you're done, take my hand and carry it with you without ever losing your grip. 

Leave my shell of skin behind as you continue in your path, and please forgive me, if all of me wasn't enough. 

God knows that's all I ever wanted to be.

Good day. Though I see I'm not as soon on this as I would've preferred to be, I wanted to give some insight into poetry as I've been writing it for quite a while now. I come to understand you've an interest in freeform poetry. I mainly write in freeform, but I also occasionally write in other forms, my most likely outlier being Villanelle. I apologize prior, for I wrote very lengthily.

My suggestion to you would be to start writing. Now, this doesn't necessarily have to be writing a poem, per se. Start writing what you want to put down into your poem and what you want to convey. You could also do this in your head. Hold these thoughts tightly. And then break them apart. You'll want to focus on the content, and not the form in freeform, (so that it's free ^^), but you'll mainly want to say things indirectly. As freeform is less restrictive than other forms of poetry, there aren't a set of strict rules to follow, but some general consistencies you may want to follow. I imagine you've the interest of crafting striking images and exploring a range of emotions in your works. You can do this in a variety of ways, of course. You may subvert concepts that are understood in the traditional sense and turn them into something else with a stronger (or stranger) image, like in Li-Young Lee’s poem “Little Father”, where Lee had likened his father to his son or a growing root.

Of course, you'll need to experiment. I like to experiment with other languages as I've an interest in such things and tend to use them in some of my poems. But you can do more than just these things. Experiment with flow, structure, rhyming schematics, words and even emotions to write about. It's easy, of course, to just say that one feels sad for the loss of a pet. But where this term is all-encompassing, and somewhat lackluster as a result, it can be replaced with metaphors and side steps of saying what you mean to say. If you're writing about an experience personal to you, you may include moments that are unique to your experience, an example being:

"And my eyes catch fish flicker through the quiet around me,
their gills stealing the oxygen meant for me,
their shapes soft against the burning edges of my mind." - An excerpt from Meursault, one of my poems.

(As you can probably infer, this section was about being suffocated by my environment, but also by a mind plagued with thoughts intrusive and unhealthy.)

I recommend this as a hobby, though it requires a lot of speculation and fine-tuning your writings. These things will, of course, take time. This is a poem I'd written when I'd first started out:

The Power I Seek
If I could wield any power,
I'd choose to possess
The answers to all mysteries.
To understand the why of what,
And the what of why,
Would be a wondrous feat,
Or to comprehend the reasons behind
This feeling I'm forbidden to speak of.
"What occurs at home,
Remains confined within its walls."
So why won't you remain by my side?
I've spoken too much.
But shapeshifting would be pretty sweet too.
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I urge you to experiment wildly in your writings. Worry not on what rules you should follow and just write what you like, yes? Read a lot of poetry and determine what it is you like and then emulate it and turn it into something your own, such as one develops their own signature.

Though I like to write poetry that is rough for the intention of letting the audience interpret it as they will for themselves, I have some poetry on my page's blogs, if you'd like to view them yourself.

I wish you a good day, and many more writings ahead of you.