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How to Write a Poem

Catch the air
around the butterfly.


Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
NIKKI ROWE April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances
BASHō MATSUO Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your c...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle throug...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to w...
RICHELLE MEAD You ask me to write you a poem,
I pen you an empty ocean,
You run away.
You ask me wh...
JENIM DIBIE Ash, ash —-
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A ca...
SYLVIA PLATH I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA representation
is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
u...
RUPI KAUR A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.
ARAKIDA MORITAKE 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
BRIAN CLARK The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
PONCE DENIS ÉCOUCHARD LEBRUN I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.
KAMAND KOJOURI Practical to the end,
it is the poem
of his existence
that triumphed
finally;...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Christmas poem to a man in jail

hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI This poem is very long
So long, in fact, that your attention span
May be stretched to its ...
COLLEEN HOOVER We call a story about love
a love story.
We call a poem about love
a love poem. KAMAND KOJOURI XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How t...
MATT HAIG I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
BASHō MATSUO What specific do you want to know about life?
...

Starts when you get born... that's...
DEYTH BANGER Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and ...
ABERJHANI A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And ea...
EMILY DICKINSON Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered...
A.E. HOUSMAN (Talking about Jaron's broken leg)
"How does it feel?" Fink asked.
"Like butterfly kisses,...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN ...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the ...
KRISTEN HENDERSON Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s j...
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Every advantage is temporary.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ...
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Impatience kills quickly.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER My Personality

unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often an...
KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person.
SANOBER KHAN I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Butterfly.
What a beautiful word
What a delicate creature.
Delicate like the cruel wo...
COLLEEN HOOVER Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Butterfly Kisses

Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY …I went away from your side,
in love without knowing it.
Now I don’t know how your eye...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy...
SANOBER KHAN Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.

From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962
SYLVIA PLATH A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
SANOBER KHAN Find children in your neighborhood,
Teach them how to read and write
Take them out of the ...
CHARMAINE J FORDE I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to re...
JANDY NELSON But how can you walk away from something and still come
back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat....
NEIL GAIMAN Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)

I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.
JACQUELINE WOODSON A book about books is like a poem about poetry:

Books are knowledge, paid for, all.
...
WILL ADVISE A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterf...
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers

You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And...
ARZUM UZUN Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissi...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let ...
MUNIA KHAN No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures
Than I began to think of rhymes and measures:
JOHN KEATS Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN ...so i will greet you
in a way
all loved things
are meant to be greeted

w...
SANOBER KHAN Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,
a proud rejected man
who lived along the edges
catch ...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER When hope turns dark,
I will bring the sun to light it,
I shall guide, protect thee, AYUSHMAN JAMWAL I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN most importantly love
like it's the only thing you know how
at the end of the day all this...
RUPI KAUR Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some pe...
SCOTT WESTERFELD be the kiss in my hair
that no one sees

move, when i move
sigh, when i sigh...<...
SANOBER KHAN Steven dreamed of you the very second
you died

(So the poem goes)
and you may h...
JON PAUL FIORENTINO It all goes around
It all goes around
The planet goes around the sun
It all goes arou...
ANN LECKIE Poetry is jealous of you tonight,
for as soon as I come
to pen a few words,
your p...
KAMAND KOJOURI He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had t...
EDWIN MARKHAM You are a cool cemetery.
You have the sinner’s grave
You have the saint’s earth
c...
MUNIA KHAN Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Catch! calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the las...
DR. SEUSS if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
SONIA SANCHEZ HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

HELENA
Call you me fair? that fair ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’ve reached the vanishing point
without you.
Here my heartache begins with your pain MUNIA KHAN I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be...
A.E. HOUSMAN A poem is a frozen moment
melted by each reader for themselves
to flow into the here and n...
HILDE DOMIN I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken gl...
MUNIA KHAN Pretty

That's what I am, I guess.
I mean, people have been telling
me that's wh...
ELLEN HOPKINS I spent all night
weaving a poem for you
to wear. You look so beautiful
when you wea...
KAMAND KOJOURI Light

That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS i want to love you with simple,
like a bare singular matchstick.
one
stroke
to i...
ZUKY ROSE LEIGH A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
G...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.<...
RUTA SEPETYS Percy wakes me (fourteen)

Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
MARY OLIVER they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And who do you
think you are sauntering along
five feet up in the air, the ocean a blue f...
MARY OLIVER A kite is a victim you are sure of.
You love it because it pulls
gentle enough to call you...
LEONARD COHEN My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my...
MUNIA KHAN

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