I suck at poetry bad, like real bad. My poem for the love poems category wasn't the best. The thing is I want to get better. I am completely out of my comfort zone & I eventually want poetry to be if not in my comfort zone then pretty close to it. I have an erotic poem swirling in my head with no way or confidence to write it & publish it
Any advice or links our lushy poets can send me way would be very very appreciated, not just by me but many others I'm sure.
Thank you in advance
I would but sadly my phone makes it difficult.
try..will you please just keep trying
write down your thoughts..hopes dream fantasies..from deep deep down
write
ask a friend to edit
and keep submitting
you can do this
i read your posts..you HAVE the talent
you can and will..do it
" smile..it is the second best thing to do with your LIPS!"
I will keep writing I love it to much to stop.
It's the poetry subgenre I need help with. I just can't seem to get it. I look at DirtyMartini & Shylass & wonder how they do it.
I hope to be a fraction as good as them at some point.
Oh, don't compare your poem with any of it here. You just need to think hard, and as daddysweetheart said you needed some imagination. Look around and collect ideas hun ...
I'll help you if you want still hon..
Hugss.
I will never say no to help.
I've been toying with an idea recently for the erotic poetry category.
Kind of combining the 2 but predominantly erotic to fit the category.
1 question though: poems don't *have* to rhyme do they?
Some good advice above. My only advice is try not to picture how to please the reader too much, rather write it the way you think you would enjoy reading it if you weren't the author. In other words, please yourself first. But, ask a friend who you admire if they would read it and give you feedback on it or even editing help. Good luck.
“It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.”
Don't be afraid to post what you've written so far in the forum in order to get some immediate feedback.
Free form poetry does not rhyme. I myself generally write my poetry this way and any rhymes are incidental. I have had a few published in books in the past. Though I do not hold myself up as a perfect example. My best advice would be... don't push writing into a category just to complete it. FEEL your writing...it is emotions on paper. And those unvarnished emotions are what will grab the reader...pull them into the caress of words. A good story or poem, especially erotica, you aren't just reading you're feeling. As lovers touch your breath comes faster, more shallow, dry lips part...you're there. I hope I was helpful.
How is your poetry going?
I've been concentrating on my already giant list of stories I have for Lush.
The idea is still in my head but it's not demanding to get out at the moment