Please stop discouraging people how they have to explain express their emotions pain happiness experience. Poets don't have to share their poems with you they share with the world and every one has their own point of views. You can't learn poetry in schools. It's from your dreams emotions experience feeling you can't get from school

“...if you want to rhyme... that’s fine...” nice... 😀

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I laughed because I can relate to the last one, i sometimes think I'm going to write the best poem ever...yeah, it never turns out that way lol. I'm still trying to find my style, I hope I find it.

Dimitri, i'm a poet from Perú and let me say the following: your channel is AMAZING, keep doing what you are doing, much love to you brother!

Since when are we "past" rhyme? We should rhyme as much as is beautiful, even if it is every other line. If you don't want to use rhyme because it comes from the past, you'll have to throw out meter, alliteration, and many other useful, timeless tools of poetry. This fear of influence and the desire to be a self-made artist, without conventions, without guides, will only produce arrogance and ghastly poetry. Imitate the masters, perfect their form first (99% of you won't because you know it is remarkably difficult), and only then step out and prove you can truly write something better and different. Otherwise your poetry will slouch into comfortable, lazy forms like free verse, and your poetry will read like everyone else's with a Tumblr "poetry" account.

I know free prose is seen to be more grown-up...but rhyming is not a lesser style. Everything has it's place, and there shouldn't be a "form hierarchy"

You are helping me get out of my writing block. thanks a bunch.

Literally all those reasons are why I like writing poetry

Write a poem about the cat ❤️

We grieve both the living, and the dead the memories, regrets, words unsaid Missed chances, old friends, and books Dreams never spoken, chances never took Exchange blame for pain, sun and rain Making decisions on emotions we can't even name Canceled plans and unanswered questions Put up walls, paint over love with December Trying our best to relive and recapture Things we very most likely misremember Disconnect the dots, periods, the points in our lives Analyze last words, thoughts and goodbyes Deathbed confessions, and near death experiences Longed for lives they never lived Acting out parts never meant for them Come out of the dark, back into the light Take a deep breath, it will all be alright....

Thank you for all your videos! You're such a great person, you really help a lot of poets out there 💕💕

I prefer rhyme. It seems more authentic.

Just reading how you answer and reply to everyone's comments in an open free flowing way. Made me subscribe. I feel that says a lot about who you are and your character. I have been writing poems for a while but I am always keen to learn and to keep on learning.

i always write rhymed poems, it's what i find easiest, it's what i've always done, almost like the essence of my poetry. i don't force it and do take my freedom, it just comes naturally. is it bad to (almost) always if it comes naturally?

KZfaq suggested this to me. Thanks KZfaq. Subbed. 🌞

Dude is still responding to comments even after 4 years

My problem is I’m not sure I’m even writing poetry. Which seems a bit common in what I read as well

Can you make a vid on some poems you made😊

💌 Very encouraging 👍👍👍💝. Many thanks ❤❤❤💐💐💐.

That's part of the chase is to find the words your looking 4 and make them flow and rhyme!

Thank you! And thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙏

After a long time writing poetry, I've finally started rhyming. t's a different world. I tend to agree with Dimitri that beginning poets shouldn't obsess over it, and that it isn't necessary. But I also think I'm seeing that the reluctance toward rhyme is going to be increasingly seen as a "20th Century thing." Hip-hop has taken the Hoary Auld Auldness From Days Of Yore feeling rhyme used to have.

Hey there!!! Great page. I only have an associates in Liberal arts in science but I want to get into freelance work. I've been writing for years but don't know how to start

A lot of my inspiration comes from Charles bukowski, he's not liked by everyone but his words touch me the most and I strive to write like him, not necessarily copying him. You can be poetic by incorporating a lot of deep metaphors and vivid imagery, not just rhyming. People get offended if you say rhyming is true form of poetry or free verse is lazy.... but at the end of the day, do what works for you and that you love it. Rhyming is still good practice but not a necessity... if you hate doing it, then don't do it, the last thing you want is to be discouraged from any part of writing. It's very fascinating to see a bunch of egotistical jackasses try to dictate which form is inferior these days.

As a teacher I don’t think you should discourage rhyme. (I know you didn’t but you kinda did with your uncomfortable “that’s fine”)If your goal as a teacher is to make poets to be uninnovative copy/paste reprints of the current era that that’s a great way to go, but if you’re really trying to help them find their style you wouldn’t stop them from using rhyme.

so good bro, i still write poetry right on my channel

A very interesting and informative interview! Congratulations!

Thanks sir.

I'm guessing everyone in the comment loves poetry,I do too It's an art of emotions that u go through For those who don't know, thats a clue A clue to show your emotions When you write It takes awhile to learn but this KZfaqr's right Just take Ur time,and u might.. U might become the world's famouse writer

Methinks this video points out mistakes That may with little practice be undone; A little self-awareness - all it takes To transform shitty poems into fun. *Dodges tomato*

Thanks heaps for this. 😊

Wow, what an amazing teacher, poet, and person!

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I write poems and I have compilation but don't have a chance to publish it. One reason is, I don't have internet connection. Is there publication still accepts mailing and postage? Can I ask for your advice regarding on poetry how can I connect with you. I want to send one of my poems to you and tell me how can I improve it.

Write towards clarity.

i disagree poems rhyme andfreeverse has a flow a messure and melody. so poems have to rhyme

i wish you could be my poetry teacher

The moment you were distracted by your cat I subscribed

great video.

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Why people hate fully rhyming poems. I don't get it.

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Let me tell you i disagree with your concept of rhyming, some poets just like using rhyme, its just their style, yeah there are indeed people that rhyme just for the sake of many poems rhyme i should rhyme too...but turn put its more of a personal preference rather than a trendy thing

I like using old terms haha

So, I decided literally 15 minutes ago that I want to try writing poetry. Where should I start? How does a beginner learn to write poetry properly? I don't want to just be some idiot that says he writes poetry but he really only does it as a hobby and he doesn't actually know what he's doing.

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Grammar (or the lack thereof) drives me nuts and writers who don't use them. That is the largest and most common mistake by far.

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My professor some years ago also told us not to use archaic language in our poetry, and then last year I had a villanelle and a sonnet published using archaic language: One on a canto in Dante's Inferno, and the other on a character in H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man. I was paid for both poems. Yet, if your professor asks you to write using modern language, just do it! It's not worth challenging them and getting a lower grade. Save your Shakespearean flare for your personal projects, and not your assignments if your professor doesn't like it in your poetry.

All poets are beginners, on their death bed, a thousand lines published. They will be but amatures. Nothing is without merit, It is to "thee" a blasamy, when one carries a word away, simply because "thou" thinks age. Holds not value. after four centries, still sees them. Resurrected from the grave.

I really appreciate your videos, however, I sense you are falling prey to the modern MFA/ literary mindset. While I understand, and mostly do agree with what you are saying (And I respect the hell outta you) I must say, as a fellow poet/writer, TOOOOOO many rules! Your "you don't have too's" are becoming gray and moving into a more "You have to" If a person desires to rhyme in a traditional meter, the poetical sentiment is achieved, and the soul is elevated from the worry of this doomed reality, that is a poem. No concern of its form should be considered in deeming it "Poetical" Too many literary magazines display resistance to any poetic form that isn't in the realm of free verse (which is ironic, because it's no longer free) I love and write mostly in free verse, but if a poem reveals itself to me in traditional/ "Poe-ish" meter and form, and corporates with me to construct a meaningful expression of myself and this world, then by God that's poetry. Please don't take this comment offensive, I love your videos and learn a lot from you. I don't have a degree and as you can probably tell, I struggle with formal grammar. However, my passion and hunger is my strength. It bothers me that publishers and literary magazines display a cold, almost snobbish disposition to traditional meter. I agree that we should not imitate (different, as you know from inspired), I don't think only TV, the internet, and cell phones are to blame for the declining number of poetry readers. I genuinely believe many people fail to be properly introduced to free verse in it's true sense. Thanks for the videos man! I say this here because of my respect for you as a writer and poet, and hope it might conjure some respectful, caring dialogue. Take care, brother!

I'm a poet. Lol even if you only write one. Be true. That's the hard part. And even if only one person in the world gets it or likes it, well you suck. Just kidding. You're awesome. Keep writing. If you want to be a better writer. Write and read, and do you.

I never liked Shakespeare. Shakespeare is not as good as the Europeans make him out to be.

Don’t agree art can use old words if everyone did the same art wouldn’t be art, all is needed and loved by someone, your opinions are not the standard

Lusty poems 0/10 lol

mistake numer 7: don't listen to advices from unknown or bad poets

What exactly makes you think you are a poet? You need to at least learn the language before you start fooling yourself that you are a poet.

I’m sorry but this man has no idea what he’s talking about