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It might as well be spring . . .

so many love poems keep appearing in the blogs. Love poems are some of the hardest poems to write, or so claimed W. H. Auden. Here are a few classics that have inspired poets and lovers over the years:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Ralegh
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e. e. cummings
Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell

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Poetry in Motion Contest

Dakota Wixom of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics has started a new contest called "Poetry in Motion." The idea of the contest is that people will submit poems under 100 words, and the winning submission will be turned into an animation.

Submissions welcome: http://www.allthingsmotion.net/contests/

Poem #4: Use These Words

Write a poem of 4 to 9 lines containing the words "mustard," "piano," "elastic," "moat," "notorious."

Or, if you prefer, use the words "dimple," "horseradish," "wipeout," "organic," "cell."

A Poetry Writing Process

Everyone has a personal and unique way of writing. And even with the same poet, different poems follow different paths from inspiration to publication. Even so, it's possible to envision a general process that can help us see where we are at and where we are headed as we work on our poems.

The ideas in this section are intended to help you keep moving ahead with your writing.

Rhythm and Meter

These are similar but not identical concepts. Rhythm refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds, while meter refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Poets who write free verse, generally de-emphasize or ignore meter and focus instead on refining and tuning their natural speech rhythms to suit the poem's tone and content. Or as Ezra Pound put it, they "compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome."

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