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RE: Getting Started Tips for Writing Poetry - A Tutorial
It’s nice to have a plan or direction for a poem; however, once you begin writing and the poem begins to flesh itself out you sometimes have to release the reins, let’s the poem have its voice. Some of my best poems ended up teaching me things I never realized, made me wonder, where did that come from.
Agreed, and I have done the same, but I think you have to start out knowing what you want to say, and if it takes you in a different direction then at least your initial thought process led you to start something.