For some poetry is a feeling, a flow of inspiration, with words forming the poem like it writes itself.
For others poetry is hard work, a real job, of thinking, rejecting, renewing, a rhyming dictionary, and more work.
Some poems are a beautiful array of almost unknown words with hidden meanings, needing a dictionary to get some faint idea of what the poet wants to say. Sometimes making me wonder if the words have been put together to make the reader do the job.
For some poetry is play. Or practice of some sort.
Teaching made me aware some children home a poet in themselves and others just don't have it, and sometimes even don't get it.
One of the favorite exercises to make the last group take part in a poetry lessons at a higher level is creating Blackout Poetry.
It's also a nice way of getting rid of writer's block.
Take a magazine, an old book, a leaflet, or any other text, and cross out sentences words and whatever you wants to cross out.
You are left wirh a few partial sentences and words.
Put them together... and there is the poem.
You can also use a language you don't know and tranlate afterwards.
Have a try...
Have fun!!!
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