How to Write a Poem (if you want to) Poetry
| 04 Apr 2016 | 04:30
April 21 is National Put a Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. To encourage our readers to write poems, our resident poet, Esther Cohen, penned a primer. If it inspires you, send your poems to news@strausnews.com
Sit down
anywhere.
Poems
happen
standing
up but
sitting down’s
easier.
One
good
word
a way
to begin.
Lesson One
You can
start here
or over there.
First words matter.
Start better
than begin.
Where
you go
up to you.
Try to go
where you can
find your best poem
Lesson 2
You want
to write.
OK. Just
sit right there.
Don’t move.
Then write
a word or two
right down.
Lesson 3
Some days
no poems.
Just wait.