Poets can find their inspiration for poems anywhere. They know how to fetch words from music and rhymes from colors. Poets, by nature, are creative and witty. They master the wordplay and mold it into the imaginations of the readers and orators. There are several means of fueling creativity and finding inspiration. Internet floods with it.
But, searching for ‘inspiration for poems’ on Google surfaces blogs that are moreover similar. The same advice about poetry prompts, inspiring books, names of famous poets, popular Instagram and Facebook pages, or certain pro-applications will cost you to share a single idea. Free applications will prompt you to click on clothing and lifestyle websites. Sites like Pinterest are fantastic, but you can quickly lose yourself in endless scrolling and forget all about composing the poem. Tough to fight such distractions!
Looking for inspiration in a virtual world might help, but will it stay with you forever? Does it bring you, as a poet, closer to the world you live in? Does it serve you as a prompting guide when it is simply answering for you without having you engage in the activity? Not much, I guess. Reading Perry Poetry to get ideas for your following poem will only make it a word-shopped (like Photoshop) verse of the original. Ever noticed how all online lyrics talk about similar stuff? Synonyms after synonyms after synonyms…
Cut the reader some slack, give your creativity some natural air, and get off that virtual ventilator.
Here are some ways to find inspiration for poems and inspire your inner poet to write your next masterpiece.
Sitting in your office in a bland environment, the last thing you want to do is look at those sulky and bored faces. Do it anyway. Look at the boredom and then feel the disgust you withhold for it. Feel it deeper; let it grow stronger. Now write about it. Write fresh, write raw, and chances are all your colleagues will relate. Anyone who does a 9-5 shift will relate to this poem. It is true for you. It is a part of you.
Fantasize how this office could have been better. What would the people be doing in an alternative reality? Write about it. Give the thick atmosphere a fresher perspective.
Sitting at home cradling a crying baby? Just woke up to find your partner fast asleep? Standing in a queue at a restaurant? Watching birds fly? Anything and everything can be turned into a poem if felt harder. Feel the anger, feel the boredom, let that sorrow settle, let that happiness grow, open your arms, close your eyes, smile, or scream. Now write it down – everyone thing about it.
Not getting any ideas about what to write? Let the world help you. Step out of home – go to the park or walk across the street. Listen to what people are saying. Not the matter but only the words they use. What is the first word you hear? It can be ‘Hi’ or ‘What.’ It may be ‘Fuck’ or ‘Dead.’ Take these words or phrases as your writing prompts. Don’t like one? You can always move on to the other person – endless choices. You can even jot down the phrases or words you want and make a collage poem. It will be like cutting your favorite parts out of several pictures and then pasting them together. Meaning or no meaning, they are impressive; they become a part of you.
There are white noises and abstract shapes that we see every day. The clouds, constellations, TV screen without a dish, patterns on the bed-sheet, touch of our skin, weight of our tongue, coolness when we breathe in, movement of our eyeballs, heaviness in shoulders, and so on. These minutiae skip us often. But what if we consciously look around for them? We will never run out of fuel for the imagination and creative juices.
Dreams can also serve as great inspiration for poetry. Many are vivid dreamers who see superheroes, dragons, and even the best of fantasies in sleep. They can use these imaginations in their next piece.
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You read it right. When nothing feels interesting enough, take a break, let it go, and bask in the sun. What a sunny morning! Such a beautiful day! I feel alive.
Feel something inside? Is your inner poet tingling you? Are you feeling ticklish at your fingertips yet? You will, soon. When you relax, the Muse comes to you.
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Rain is yet another Muse that fills poets with a willingness to write. Bath in it and enjoy every bit of it. Refreshed, your mind will easily fetch a couple of ideas that will be so irresistible that you won’t be able to help but begin composing.
There you have several ways of finding inspiration for poems.
Finding creativity is easier than you believe. It is everywhere, on the internet as well as off it. The bigger the sky, the more comprehensive your wings will span. Unleash your creativity and let the world conspire to make you the greatest poem. Not just fresh rhymes, but you will find newer and sometimes newfangled perspectives. You will think out of the box and compose what is, in every way, Meraki.