How to Form Poetry that May Affect You Deeply

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Gather common sense
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Art To Be Had

Gather common sense

Here is part 2 of the generator series. Frisk semi-poetry can be launched through computers.

Resting May Pay
Fully evolved newspaper-reader
resting well on top of all these cornflakes
Tremendous delight can finally pay.

TO THAT. Hm - mhm. What is meant by "cornflakes" above? After all, it could stand for muffled, flattened humans. "who are broken down during the process of living awkwardly." A screen fellow (actor, actress) or newspaper depicted guy is not totally unlike that - screen flat (two-dimensional) and "shared by many" during the breakfast meal too.
Fame is a dangerous thing to some, like public lavatories. You have to be on your guard there, supposedly -
Further, the evolved ones like to share delights.

Spanking Icebergs
Spanking monster-slayer,
Soundly among icebergs.
Great loss of control costs dearly.

TO THAT. The last verse happens to sum up the poet's life neatly if you consider or interpret the metaphors in certain ways and not other ways . . . For example, "icebergs" may be taken to mean Norwegians up in the very cold north. The monster referred to may be hailed by your mom due to lack of wit and decency. Be strong to see how yourself - you are on your own here.

Find the words and phrases that appeal to your heart in the boxes and you end up with something. Then a little brushwork may be all that is further needed, and . . . there is a poem!
Salient poetry of this sort harms no one, it is hoped. These novel poems, like haiku poems, depend rather much on what each one accedes or manages to put into them.
And, as a long shot, these teachings could help against being taken in by wordplay that robs deep inner needs for belonging.

THIS slim poem generator can be fit for well over 200 million poems already, but stick to some that touch you deeply. This view can be substantiated by simple mathematics that explores the alternatives of the boxes. They are: [(18 x 21) x (13 x 7 x 14) x (17 x 18)] at present. Allowing for such as overlaps; chunking and compounding terms; and refined polishing with omissions and additions with discretion - not wholly as you please - the sum total can be larger too, but that hardly matters where a million is all right.

Substantial, large-breasted [compassionate, etc.] mom,
Ruling the world on top of the [inner] forests [of unconsciousness],
Listening full well [secret yogas are hinted at] takes what it takes.

Take a look into the poem generator above. Think of the alternative conclusions to be delved into if you carefully shift the last expression (see box 7). One small change gives rise to 17 different poems. They may be so close to each other that you may not like to look on all of them as separate poems. Instead you may see them as quite decent verbalisations of belongingness that can be centred on your own dear mother.
Now, don't forget to experiment and build on your own experience. In building poems that suit you, this approach is suggested:

Go to box 2 of line 1. Find the term to your liking if you can.
Select similarly from the last box of line 2.
Choose a key in the same way from box 1 on line 3.
Choose not differently from among the remaining boxes. Experiment a little with their various suggestions if you like. Write down all masterly shots. Final suggestion: Leave the last box till the others have been selected.

Let poetry help you. That's the idea here.

The first box of the first line right below is for attributes somehow. The second box of the first line tells of God or holiness plots.
The second line describes some fairly typical doings and some others. What is on the second line tends to set the scene of your novel haiku-inspired poem.
The third line in this semi-poetry is for pregnant and snappy conclusions.
Polish the result - some words or lines could need to get brushed - maybe by having more than 's' [plural form] added - who knows. Maybe you find you compete with Basho all at once:

The old pond
A frog leaps in.
Splash!

Instead of splashing: The haiku above is from the 1600s, and the japanese Zen artist's pseudonym is Basho (1644-94). There is room for variation in art, and in translating and interpreting this poem too. Go for some gentle middling path to stay all right and safe.

The pond: Some may write "Old pond" first instead of "The old pond". Okay. The pond can serve as an image of the more or less timeless existence, and this world we're inside.
The frog: "A frog leaps in": The frog can be yourself.
Splash: Instead of "splash" some translators have "the sound of water", which is not as expressive. The splash serves to illustrate the meeting-point of the juxtaposed main figures - the pond and the artist (frog).

This shows how some Buddhist monks, like Basho, learnt to write poetry in Japan. There are hints and deep hints inside the poem, according to old Japanese traditions. [LINK]

Get smart or wise ahead of troubles

ALTERNATIVE: Make do with some boxes and cards in them if off-line poem-making matters. Take some blank cards and fill in the words (phrases) in the boxes on them - one word or phrase for each card. Next you put the cards in seven boxes according to the design just given. Then you can experiment.
Your little box easily substitutes a hundred thousand good books of haiku poems? Life is to be lived, and here you have simplified for it by having a scheme for the equivalent of such as a hundred thousand poetry books.
The poetry matrix above is designed to generate up to 200 million haiku-near poems. Most of them function all right but can all the same be improved a bit by brushing and the like. Welcome your deep-probing poems with deep, existential undertones and think of the handy things to do after getting such a huge amount of spare time.
Consider the metaphors and stay on the safe side: Icebergs are at times a metaphor of humans drifting in the ocean of being, for example.

Options abound

A haiku is an utterly terse poem. You may decide to fill in just a little here and there in your chosen poetry to be understood. Find good reasons to dispense with neurotic "invocations" to "God Mistress" arrived at by human antropomorphism by and large. Instead of unnecessary gestures, win the trick.

Art to be had

Go for the greatest if you dare to. The one who decides on simple, good poetry can remain functional. For very much depends on arrangement [Iste: "naqshband" index]. Much depends on arrangement in poetry too.

Savings May Be Had

THERE IS more than paper and large trees to save in this. There is also saving of shelves and space. Electronic storing is a great space-saver too as you simplify your life to find the time to live adequately again. It is a fact that most people in Norway today have walth of things, but not of time. Free time has been traded in for the "stir" of things. and that is another way of being silly, as long as happiness dwindles by it, and native handiness is degraded or debunked for imports.
Discover how much you may save by a poem generator - make your own estimates if you care for. Take into account these: Money. Effort. Shelf-space. Time. Catering to things of poetry-making offers help. Here is almost a repeat:

Go to box 2 of line 1. Find the term that appeals to your heart if you add "divine" to it.
Select similarly from the last box of line 2.
Look at the keys found inside box 1 and line 3.
Learn to play with the rest. Experiment richly with alternatives from the rest of the boxes and see what you come up with. One final suggestion: Leave the last box till the others have been selected, and some could need to get brushed - maybe by having an 's' [plural form] added - who knows.
See wheter great mystics or scoundrels haven't found topics of interest earlier - just for comparisons, not for being bitten.

After all, essentials have been mastered.
The startling formalism of haiku is tallied to the Japanese language and hokku poetry. As for haiku subject matters that were "allowed", foremost poets innovate some genres and create new avenues too. It happens now and then.
Old haiku poems can contain a quite objective description of nature and hint at one of the seasons. By the skilfulness of photo-like gravity of description they can evoke a definite, yet unstated, emotional response somehow.
One of the Japanese poets founded a poetics school of his own, after passing through a certain apprenticeship. Then he insisted that a haiku - to his liking - must contain both a perception of some eternal truth and some "now and here" some way or other. As you can halfway guess, others rose in time to acquire opinions of their own in the matter - on how to compose poetry well.
I for my part think blank verse is good enough - I feel no great need for artificial metres, rhymes and intricate endeavours that can take away the zest of expressing all too easily, and for little profit as well. My view can be debated.

Norwegian Proverb
Jumping over the brook
for water
not needed.

This is fun for the sake of showing something. And there is room for much variation - of spelling, arrangement and arrangement of topic and so on. Just find some designs and variants that please the Child (zest in living) that is left in you.
You can think of a good poem. It may assist your climb into some ideas. Actually, we do not need to look to Japan to express something terse and at times quite enigmatic and laden with figurative speech. Just spread a proverb over a few lines and there you have it.
Combine several proverbs into co-working poems too, as you like. Some bits of figuratively expressed understanding may appear through your nightly dreams quite often. To be on the outlook in such a direction too may improve your art along with skills, and help in improving your living too, if you learn how to interpret dreams sanely. [LINK]

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