Read
scores of poetry = Write scores of poetry.
Reading poems discharges a creative brand of influence that fosters the seed of
the craft inside of you. A well-written verse is catching especially, when you
read one that warms into your private spot.
Pick
up a poetry collection, the type that appeals fiercely to your taste, crawl in between
a complex web work of metaphors and put thoughts of you out of your mind for a
minute. Live in the moment. You’ll experience the crush of inspiration pushing
up through your blood vessels, the deeper you dig beneath the flesh for the
bones, the greater the pressure that engulfs you.
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“None of us ever wants to write
a poem in the first place unless we have read a poem that truly takes us.” —
Robert Wallace.
Our
appreciation of poetry—admiration for poetic vernacular—is sharpened by the
poems we read. By the by, it is the magic pumped into our souls by these poems we
take a crack at reinventing at what time we recollect personal emotions in tranquility.
The metric flow we conjure up are modeled after the poems we read and the multiverse
created by those poets boil over into our own craft generating a rich and
textured commonwealth of the imaginative variety.
Ultimately,
“the undisguised admiration ‘I can do
that’ is the seed from which every poet
sprouts and grows. — Robert Wallace.
Most
great poems are made up of honey-sweet and simple vocabulary that surprises
phrases like, “Why didn’t I think of
that?” out of us. And the answer is just as simple, we haven’t been doing too much reading.
Immerse yourself in poems. There
is no other approach to navigate an ocean of words with the skill of a master.
Akpan
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