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Free Verse Poetry
I usually have to work the words, as I like to call it, in order to get the piece to sound right. All my poetry ideas come to me when I least expect them. I had been explaining to a friend about how to write poems. This one just seemed to flow from my mind as was getting comfortable in my bed on a balmy tropical evening. I worried about having given her the right advice, or enough that would set her on the path of learning how to write poems. Maybe it was the tropical breezes and moonlight that triggered this free verse.
NAKED NIGHT IN THE TROPICS
making them seem like bars on the window, but horizontal and scintillating, very freeing, as tradewinds waft into the room and billow the curtains. I breathe in response, and lay spread eagle, uncovered falling asleep knowing moonlight will slow dance across my bed, washing over my naked body, with its rhythm as the moon shifts in the sky from one window to another projecting a square of radiance that distorts and elongates as the reflection slips around the room then becomes lighter with the rising sun, moonlight awash with sunlight merging, when I’ll wake and rise and walk into the glowing and stretch in a bath of light.
I put it on the Introduction page of the book and let it set the pace and flavor of island living. That is, the flavor of safe island living. The people in the story do not always live safely. When learning how to write poems, especially free verse, let your feelings be your guide. Let the moment influence you. That, of course, also applies to emotional moments like breaking up a relationship, for example. That’s when many people begin to learn how to write poems. It just the nature of the art. It’s because we feel deeply. Emotions make great beginnings for learning how to write poems. What type of poetry content do you like to read? What form of poetry; free verse, rhyming, sonnets, or…? In time we will cover all of these.
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