Ideas to Enhance Your Writing
 

    Wouldn’t it be nice to have a special poetry            vacuum cleaner that removes excess “a”s

    and “the”s, unnecessary adjectives, and

    any other debris cluttering up your poem?

    But I always write [free verse, epic poems,

    fill-in-the-blank]. So, why change?

You know the guidelines---journals always want

you to send your best work. But how do you

make it your best? 

        Okay, so what's with all the pictures?

        They all have ears.

  "The pen is mightier than the sword," wrote

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It’s also mightier than 

  the bullet, the baton, the Molotov cocktail, 

  and broken windows.

    Why do poets spend so much time revising

    their work? Shouldn’t you just write from the          heart and let it go at that?

     I’ll be honest with you: I like rhyme. It’s fun,           challenging, and can make a poem easier to         remember. After all, some very famous and           beloved poems have been written in rhyme—

  I've been a fan of Joseph Fasano ever since 

  I read these words from his poem...

      Let’s say you have a poem that’s been

      around a while, maybe you’ve submitted it

      once or twice, but no one’s snatched it up.            (There’s no accounting for taste.)

As I wondered what to share that would be meaningful during this time of Covid-19

concerns, the words and music of well-known 

hymns began to come to mind. (Posted in 2020.)

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