POETRY FOR BEGINNERS! | 3 Poetry Exercises To Beat Writer's Block | How To Write Poetry
POETRY FOR BEGINNERS by Adam Gary Poetry
3 Poetry Exercises to Beat Writer Block
1- Metaphor Exercise
Make 3 columns of lists
- adjectives
- concrete nouns = things that you can touch physically
-abstract nouns = things like feeling
Examples
Adjectives - boiling, lumpy, crooked, tatted, scolding,
Concrete nouns - bridge, duvet, drawers, door, footpath,
Abstract nouns - hope, betrayal, loneliness, elation, anxiety.
Scolding bridge of hope
The tattered duvet of loneliness
The crooked draws of elation
2- Inspiration Exercise
Imagine that you're actually someone else (regular people in a supermarket/pub/in street) and try to imagine what life is like in their shoes
What is about them that caught your eye?
What is it that made you wonder?
Of course, don't get hung up on whether you are accurate or not, you are just using them as inspiration
3- Making Simile
Grab yourself your favorite poetry collections and scroll through to find some of the similes that you really like as inspiration
Ask yourself what it is about those similes that you like: is it their imagery/originality/ use of language and try to replicate it in your own.
Now go someplace where you can observe nature, people, traffic, anything
Based on what you observe, start writing down similes to go with that, they don't make any sense/ not completely sense. They don't have to be amazing.
The Idea of these exercises is to get out of your head and away from frustration. So just write down, the first thing that comes to your mind.
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