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[virago_queen]

I have started the poem for my Creative Writing: Poetry class like five times. It has to be about a place. It's due in...three and a half hours. =|

I've tried libraries, my hometown, Rome, hell even Midgar. And I'm just drawing a ridiculous blank.

Poetry is HARD, man.

EDIT: Alright, the approaching deadline/this picture/this song combined forces

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[lightofeilia]

atlantis, heaven, or the white house. :D

[the_404_error]

Hmm, is there any place at all that has inspired you, be it for good or ill? Like I have strong feelings about The Industrial Wasteland/Rust Belt/whatever they're calling it now, so I think it would be easiest for me to write a highly depressing and negative poem about that.

... which I'm sure is something you've already asked yourself, but uh. /not Englishy and fails at being helpful?

[virago_queen]

I did try to write something about my (godawful) hometown - it started off something like "this is where dreams go to die" and compared people to rusted-out trucks and burned-out meth labs, but I decided it was depressing me too much and it wasn't that good anyways. xD;

At this point I'm staring at a picture of Tartarus and trying to write something about the Dark Hour, because that has a lot of good sensory detail that I can use, and maybe I'll score some points for fucked-uped-ness? lol. I dunno if I'll finish this one, either, but it seems to be going at least a little better than the others.

[asteroid_girl]

No kidding! We just went over Sonnets in English class today. Lots to think about when writing poems D: Here's a poem that describe's writer's block pretty well. I hope it inspires you as much as it did to me xD

[virago_queen]

Sonnets are neat! We're not allowed to use any rhyme or meter until our next poem, though. =/

This is my personal favorite poem about writer's block. Sylvia Plath is wonderful.

[breyzyyin]

That does sound hard! Usually, when I wrote poetry, I tend to get all angsty...so, is there a particular place that you connect to a strong emotion or moment for you? Like...a feeling of nervousness in some kind of waiting room or something of that nature?

...Lolz, that doesn't even make sense. O_O; It makes sense in my head but I can't explain it here. Uh, feel free to ignore?

[sunflower_mynah]

And this is why I never do creative writing classes. :P The more I write the less I know if I'm writing prose, poetry, or something else entirely.

(one day I will gather my courage and write a sonnet. >.>)