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this is not a poem, im writing this post because i like poems but i cant seem to write my own poem, how do you guys start of with a poem, what motivates you to write these, is it your feelings or did you just thought about something and start writing it down?
p.s any pointers and tips on how to start writing a poem would be appreciated

Think of your emotion.
Now think of how you derived that emotion. Your thoughts, your philosophies, etc.
Think of what you see, feel, taste, or hear during that emotion. One of the senses.
Now describe that.
We all have different motivations for poetry. I have wrote it about girls, deaths, to the parents, wedding day gifts, regrets, excitement. Basically anything that has troubled me or anything that his brought about emotions(which ever it may be).
One I wrote about a girl who I was stuck on a while back. Poems help me get over shtuff.
My stomach fluttered,
As I saw you,
My mind was monopolized.
Murdered by fantasy.
The way her luscious dark hair floated,
Strand for strand strangling thoughts.
Dark eyes inkling desire,
Piercing my thoughts.
Exquisite lips curling,
Smile freezing my mind,
Stealing my brainwaves,
Silencing the universe.
Bistered skin lighting the dark,
Luxurious color out gleaming the sun.
A full moon in the dark,
Pulling me in like the tide.
Next...
I gazed at a rose,
Cast away into the eye.
Motional leaves move while still.
This inhibited instant,
Reality impedes.
Trance just dismissed.
The elegant red of the pedal‘s tips,
The saccharine essence.
Thorns now pierce my flesh.
Misery worth experiencing,
Your painful piercing runs through my vacant imagination.
Bloomed through monumental adversity.
Those roses that dispute the most anguish,
Contain the most eccentric adventures.
These strange saga’s father the Magnificent.
It is life’s miseries, it’s fortitudes, it’s sadness.
That makes happiness.
Beauty is recognized through these fallacies.
I recognized your eyes radiant shine.
As I shuttered my windows,
I experienced your smile.
You are that divine, that luxurious, that elegant rose,
A delicate warrior,
Battling life’s militant moments.
Your glimmering green eyes,
Your Surrounding red hair,
Your contagious smile,
That fervor felt,
Given from your heart.
A void follows your presence,
As you leave your essence is craved.
These are things I write. They are very very romantic. As I said a bit of a romantic, be nice in judging guys.