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This is nice!.
TO make my answer more useful, here are some poetry tips!.
Best of luck

A poem with Love in the title (or Destiny, Hate, or other HUGE themes) already has two strikes against it (and I like love poems)!.
http://www!.poewar!.com/archives/2005/03/0!.!.!.

The bigger your point, the more important the details are
http://www!.poewar!.com/archives/2005/03/1!.!.!.

Say what you want to say and let your readers decide what it means!.
http://www!.poewar!.com/archives/2005/03/2!.!.!.
# Feel free to write a bad poem!.
# Develop your voice!. Get comfortable with how you write!.
# Don’t explain everything!.
# Untitled poems are lazy!. They’re like unnamed children!. Obviously their parent doesn’t care about them!.
# People will remember an image long after they’ve forgotten why it was there!.
# That one perfect line in a thirty line poem may be what makes it all worthwhile, or it may be what makes the rest of the poem bad!. Keep an eye on it!.
# There are many excuses not to write!. Try using writing as an excuse not to do other things!.
# The more you read, the more you learn!. The more you write, the more you develop!.
# Poems that focus on form (Sonnet, Villanelle, etc!.) are rarely my favorites, but most of my favorite poets learned how to write in forms before they discarded them!. Writing in forms is a challenge!. It makes you think!.
# Don’t be afraid to write from a different point of view!. Write a poem that says exactly the opposite of what you believe, and do it without irony!.
# When you can’t write, lie on the floor a while!. (thank you Jon Anderson)
# Write in different places!. Keep a notebook!. Write in a park or on a street-corner or in an alley!. You don’t HAVE to write about the place, but it will influence you whether you do or not!.
# Listen to talk radio while you write!. Listen to the people who call!. Great characters and voices emerge that way!.
# If you don’t like a poem or poet, figure out exactly why!. Chances are, it reflects something you don’t like about your own poetry!.
# When nothing is coming, start writing very fast– any word, phrase or sentence that comes to mind!. Do that for about a minute, then go back to your poem!. (I call this flushing!.) Whether to use anything you flushed is up to you!. You can, but that’s not the purpose!.
# Make a list of poems you can remember specific lines from!. Go back and read those poems!. Figure out why they stuck with you!.
# Keep a dream journal!. Dreams are your mind at it’s most creative so listen to it!. Don’t feel you have to write a poem ABOUT your dreams!. If you want to, fine, but the main goal is to see what thoughts the dreams lead you to!.
# When nothing is coming for you, try analyzing someone else’ s poems!. (or even one of yours) Figure out what works, what doesn’t work, and why!. Think about what you would have done differently!.
# Use humor, irony, and melodrama, just don’t abuse them!.
# Write the worst poem you can possibly write!. Use clichés, pretentious words, and beat your reader over the head with your point!. Felt good, didn’t it!? Now get back to work!. The point is, don’t be afraid to write a bad poem!. If it takes a hundred bad poems before you can produce a poem you like, fine, get that hundred out of the way!.
# Dirty limericks can be fun too!.
# Every great poet has written a bad poem, probably hundreds, possibly thousands!. They kept writing though, and so should you!.
# Every line of a poem should be important to the poem, and interesting to read!. A poem with only 3 great lines should be 3 lines long!.
# Poems should progress!. There should be a reason why the first stanza comes before the second, the second before the third, and so on!.
# Listen to criticism, and try to learn from it, but don’t live or die by it!. When I was in college, I would always take my best reviewed poem from the previous class and submit it for review in the next!. Invariably, the next professor hated the poem, and could provide good reasons why it failed!.
# When you write a good poem, one you really like, immediately write another!. Maybe that one poem was your peak for the night or maybe you’re on a roll!. There’s only one way to find out!.
# Follow your fear!. Don’t back away from subjects that make you uncomfortable, and don’t try to keep your personal demons off the page!. Even if you never publish the poems they produce, you have to push yourself and write as honestly as possible!.
# Submit your poems!. Sooner or later you have to send your babies out into the world to find their way!. Emily Dickinson was a fluke, most people who don’t publish while they’re alive will never be seen or heard of — no matter how good their poems!.
# Buy books of poetry, especially books by current writers working in the field and subscribe to poetry journals!. Give back to the poetry community by reading (and paying for) the works of others!. If you don’t, what right have youWww@QuestionHome@Com

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drowning in the winds
I absorb and create
My senses hush so forcefully
Standing in the sands
Remains of what once was
Dunes become the yellow growling wizards
Moving mountains
I could never do that
Moving landscapes
I could never do that
Moving me
I coulld
But I would not
Do thatWww@QuestionHome@Com

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a very good poem, deep poem about the environment
only complaint is the name (sounds to ideological)
please change itWww@QuestionHome@Com

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g000d!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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pretty good
:)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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goodWww@QuestionHome@Com

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pretty good if you don't mind i would like to modifey it!.



As the sun seeks below the hills
The darkness surrounds us it hunts to kill!.

Even though the whether is bad
i am not angry nor am i sad!.

when i see this dark cold world
i see one beautifle girl holden a light
showing my way through the darkest of nights!.

the hurricanes roar and the rain contiues to poor!.
but we keep moving through the storm!.

the winds blow and they destroy
but yet are goverment continues to deploy
as out soliders run through the storm
for i am the one leading them!.
the storm is blowing the buildings are falling and what do we do
when help is calling!.
we will fight in the air we will fight in the sea
even though the storm has claimed far more then you
and me
we continue to feel pain
under this blistering rain!.
as the ocean climbs to enormus rate i ask my
self why do we hate!.
why do we fight in the middle of the night
when the parents lie to their kids and
say everythings going to be alright!.

it's deep any way i made that up you don't gotta use it but i like it anywayWww@QuestionHome@Com

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