Sunday 22 December 2013

What to write? How to rhyme? - Advice to the freshers.

A many of aspiring poets come across the question "what to write?". These are the people who, either, have fallen in love with someone or they have developed their thinking power and changed their outlook to life, or they are too much lured by the concept of poetry. Driven by the power of rhymes so pleasing to the soul, they have sometime sought inner peace and they endeavour to bestow this peace to others. Poetry and poetics welcomes everyone in its realm. Who knows, a poet who, starts his day by singing a poem, might in the future, write a masterpiece. A aspiring poet reads a lot poem everyday, but still cant a topic to write. He/She is quite perplexed on the topic on which their vocabulary may assist and they may hit the ground runnin. For a mere poem to be composed, they write something that rhymes but doesnt express. Rathar, pouring their heart out, not necessarily rhyming the words, but painting their creation with imagery at the first place, surely helps them compose a "poem". My advice to such aspiring poets who are vexed with the question "what to write?" is - 1) Write on a topic that you feel quite acquainted about, a topic that makes you think deeply. 2) Primarily, do not focus on the rhyme. Write your heart out. Your first poem need not be a masterpiece afterall. 3) Mainly, do not take up this epoch to compose a poem in any way possible. Instead, a time will come when a random topic flashes in your head and your hands cannot endure to be still. A pen and page is sufficient for the words from your heart to be imprinted. Next, if you have sought a desired topic, remember that 'something that rhymes isn't a poem'. Actually a poem is something that rhymes. There's a heck lot difference between these two lines. Try to find it out. It is your first step to think and to write. :)

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