Want to take your poetry to the next level? Maybe you like the idea of poetry and you even have some ideas you’d like to experiment with, but you just don’t know where to start.

Whatever your skill level as an amateur poet, I wanted to share my top tips and tricks with you in a series of blog posts to help you become the poet you’ve always wanted to be.

The biggest trend I see in amateur poetry is an explosion of imagery and emotion. There are so images, metaphors are mishmashed together, we skip from emotion to emotion like we’re hopping from rock to rock across a stream.

On the page, there is so much to sort out, that it is hard to determine what the heart of the poem is. This makes it hard for the reader to develop their own interpretation of it.

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