These are my personal observations for my poetry/songwriting. What made it better/grow: 1) doing it for a lot for a long time 2) living a period of severe body-and-brain-chemistry-changing abuse, comparable to ppl living in war zones. It changed how words come out. You don't ask for these experiences. (actually, maybe I did for my art) 3) reading the best books by the best writers 4) writing on paper by hand creates better poems in my case 5) trying not to write a poem and just writing turns into good poems 6) your songs/poems will follow you your whole life, so you don't have to worry about losing them. some of them take years.

Writing poetry can be difficult, but it's easy compared to the challenge of getting anyone to read your poetry.

Inspiration can sometimes spur the right thoughts.

meinkafka

3 months ago

That's true, some of my best lines seem to randomly come to me during walks rather than hours spent at a desk.

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