How to Write a Poem

You try to use

the fewest words

you can

to say what

must be said.

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Well, that certainly would disqualify Shakespeare, Chaucer, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Donne, Poe, Wordsworth, Emerson, Eliot, Lawrence, and a few hundred other masters of the written art. This sounds more like a loose description of haiku if you added the syllable construction to the mix. But to use it as a description of how to write a poem is a very rash generalization I think.

[Nay]

Hey, you're taking a page from my book. ;)

[Emily B]

and I guess the trick of it is knowing what must be said. . .

[darkmusicbaby88]

Awesome insight!