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Anonymous Tue May 22 00:45:23 2018 No.11191254 [Reply] [Original]

How do I become a decent poet?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 00:50:33 2018 No.11191275 >>11191254 Be a racial minority and a homo

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 00:53:01 2018 No.11191289 File: 30 KB, 640x427, jocko-640px.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you need Challenges could you defeat jocko willink in a poetry slam?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 00:54:16 2018 No.11191296 >>11191254 practice. silences. avoiding words you didn't need, listening to the sound of trees, and letting the muse wash over you. getting drunk helps sometimes too.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 00:55:30 2018 No.11191304 >>11191254 reading a lot experimenting a lot contemplating a lot watching the world a lot

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 01:07:00 2018 No.11191370 >>11191296 >>11191304 Thanks. Drinking alone isn't the best thing for me based on experience. Maybe that's the point.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 01:08:40 2018 No.11191377 >>11191370 what matters is the verses, not you. conduct the song.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 01:14:27 2018 No.11191405 Writing and getting feedback.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 01:36:05 2018 No.11191478 You must change your life

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 03:44:17 2018 No.11191857 >>11191478 no >>11191405 no >>11191296 yes >>11191304 this too yes. dont have to read, but it can expand the vocabulary. >>11191254 you need to ask yourself why you want to be a poet, that will bring out the purest form of your personal poetry.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 12:13:49 2018 No.11193392 >>11191370 the artist is subordinate to the art, Anon. Lots of writers were at their worst when drunk, but wrote their best only when at their worst.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:11:28 2018 No.11194213 Rhyming and shit.