What is Sunday Stanzas?
Every week, readers (hopefully) submit poems to an appointed photo. The next Sunday, the photo will be posted captioned with each poem. Need ideas? Read below the contact form!
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Submit your poem with the contact form below. If you don’t feel courageous enough, just submit it anonymously, and no one will know the difference!
An Easy Way to Write Poems
By Matt
First you write the poem
That doesn’t rhyme
But says what you want
Just like this.
Then you add some poetic fluff above every other line:
Listen, you peeps at home:
First you write the poem
Typing out each line
That doesn’t rhyme
Pulled from your mental font
That says what you want
Then add poetic bliss
Just like this.
See how easy that was?
Feel free to tweak your original lines a little bit, but try not to change the words at the end that you will have to rhyme with, because that is a dark and slippery path that leads to rhyme-exhaustion.
If you want to get really tricky you can split your original poem up into pairs of lines, like I did for the last poetry contest that I won:
The original:
Look at those puzzle pieces
Lying in the dirt.
They must have a story
How did they get there?
Oh well, it’s not my business
I’ll just keep moving on.
Then I added two poetic fluff lines in front of each pair of original lines:
My curiosity increases
I am alert.
Look at those puzzle pieces
Lying in the dirt.
They say, “Don’t ignore me.”
I wish they could share
They must have a story
Of how they got there.
They don’t belong in this mess,
But where do they belong?
Oh well, it’s not my business.
I’ll just keep moving on.
This method is nice because you can really just let your feelings dictate the first part, and then connect it together and make it fun and rhyming with the second, and you end up with a pretty good poem.
