How to Poetry: Thoughts, Rules and Examples

Poetry gets a bad rap. It usually comes into our lives on two occasions, school exams, and a funeral service. The art is a total downer but recently poets have become popular and gangster. Rap stands for rhythm and poetry. Rap is a form of expression and this is shaving off on the younger generation. Maybe it's the humour or artificial emotion but one thing is certain, anyone can create their own masterpiece. 

My search to understand; rhyme, set-up, character, emotion, meaning, syllables and performance.

At the beginning of poetry writing I spent hours mulling over themes and rhymes, this is actually perfectly okay so long as the answers come naturally. Discovering rhymes doesn't require dictionaries and I can personally dispel the myth that good rappers should cheat, use a team or need years of experience. 

Now coming up to three years in this venture I've certainly exercised my language muscles, project my voice with confidence and lets not get started on memory. This is greatly under appreciated and the only learning curve is to get started soon.

5 Tips to Make Better Poetry:

1. Write as much as possible.
Once you have a couple of paragraphs or pages, editing what you have can greatly improve your work. Advanced techniques you'll pick up on once you invent them. Internal rhymes, pace and intricate meaning.

2. How to make your work funny or interesting.
If you don't have a notepad of ideas then your living in the past. Once the music hits you write it down, humour is hard to create so don't deny the fountain the opportunity to flow. Take advantage of spontaneous creativity as well as methodical. 

3. You don't have the words or themes to get started.
The music industry perpetuates the same literary devices. Certain phrases should retire and they don't. What I tend to do is make it sound great, that's all I want to achieve. Let's not complicate my work, simple and bumpy.

4. Your performance doesn't do your work justice.
Alright so you suck. There is a common problem that your work may be great but once you say it out loud, it loses all it's cool. Record your voice until what you have is acceptable. You need a phone, privacy and a metronome beat. After all art deserves to be seen, face your critics. 

5. Invent your own rules.
These are things I encountered honing my craft, I know what I have to do to get stuck in from where I left off. So can you.

Examples from Poetry Collection:

Converting the anti-christ into something nice, 

Hard partner to wish equal equality, 

Seek solace Sikh report beef to police, 

Release a 40 hour week worker, 

Cow meat slaughter murder, 

Thou speak torture from cannon mortar, 

Wow critical impact to giant shoulder, 

Captain of industry Mayan government ministry ,

Subliminal propaganda machine beat,

Escaped with maps of mischief low key -- third eye entry.

One receptive be deceptive honed respective now perceptive,

Past dismissive not impressive part of collective,

Heavy lyricists made pyramids ain't no cure in it,

A fire is lit rubbled science make head wobble,

Head wobble you stumble Ted-Talk view-age double, 

Meanwhile big kids watch Mr Tumble,

I'm the bringer of rumble, 

Demi-gods can crumble,

The man wants to couple, 

Send away the trouble, 

Get blown like bubble by Bubble who's illiterate,

Now your HIV positive feel positively sick.

Virus penetrate our fire wall,

Race ahead you fireball,

Authorise marriage and pity the fool,

Well I'm the captain and the ship and the crew too,

Visit holy Jupiter moons with stolen goods to move,

Throwback times with a compact knife,

Hidden Rorschach mask a gold mouth locked out,

Only the brave picked last, I learnt to opera house and whiskey glass,

Tips to last -- rotten cheques that bounce back,

A past you'll die catching a hydrogen atom, check check microphone check,

Help me dialling Dr. Manhattan, blasting words rhymes and rapping,

Listen master Lawrence, early nights make thinkers happy,

Well.. this life ain't worth having, crack one invade crack pipe heaven.

The real hustle is the morning shuffle nothing but trouble mind buckles,

Not good today for the word play got something to say, fear the stage? Then earn minimum wage.

Talking points few your mute nurture or family root sorta anomic not it.