What makes you poetic?

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I love making rhymes. When someone dear to me celebrates a birthday or other milestone, I sometimes whip up a rhyme for him or her instead of the usual greetings. My poems are mostly light and funny.
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Broken heart can more poetic than the love newly love
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Pain. Anger. Love.
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Joy, sadness, love, appreciation - name it. Any type of emotion gets me in the mood.
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depression along with few added flavors of regrets , when combined , makes me poetic.
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Love, loss, sadness, pain, almost all negative emotions and powerful feeling emotions make me poetic. But also, it depends on my life experiences too.
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Anything can inspire me sometimes but most of the time it's my emotion that do it for me especially when i'm feeling sad.
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If I was overwhelmed by feelings that I had to find another way to express it, I'd write out my feelings in poem forms. I will disregard any tenses or errors for I'd be unable to express it all later on.
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Before, i have always been writing poems about just anything, but because now I'm experiencing something that is really painful, i've written poems in my journal about life and things that i have realized. Pain makes me poetic at the moment.
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Observing nature, for one thing. At least, I often find myself relating my moods to the current nature scene when I write poems. Also, trying to find the right words to express my feelings or state of mind. I also get poetic inspiration from other works of art (i.e., other poems, books, movies, songs, visual art). In particular, I get poetic urges from reading classical Japanese poems in translation. Not just the haiku, but other, less well-known Japanese poetic methods such as the tanka, which was the main form in the Heian period (792-1185). But I'm going off the rails a bit. Since some of you have posted examples of your poems, here's one of mine:

Having cried myself
To sleep
Last night,
I wake in the early morning
To hear
Raindrops
Tapping a telegraph
On the weathered trees.
Though muffled by
The glass of my window,
Their message cuts me
To the core—
They’re talking about
Things
I never knew I wanted,
And now that I know,
I can’t have them.

On a closer listen,
I hear a clearer message,
Striking like a rainbow
Through the gray of lament.
“Mourn if you must,”
It seems to say.
“Wet your pillow with
Tears of your loss.
They will water the seeds
Of what might still be gained.

“Though your heart sobs for roses,
Don’t take daisies
And sunflowers
For granted.
Surely,
The flowers you plant
In your misery
Will be still
More beautiful.
Even crocuses
Must force their way
Through snow,
To announce the
Coming of spring—
New beginnings.”

As the awakening sun
Melts the rain away,
I rise,
Take up my trowel and spade,
Turning up
The earth of sorrow
For new green
Possibilities.
I shower my tears
Over the new seeds
Before leaving
The sun of transformation
To do its work.

Yes, I will
Still mourn.
Yes, I will
Still plant my seeds.
I will
Remind myself
That after a long,
Cold, costly winter,
Spring is here.
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My environment, daily encounters, personal experiences
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My internal and external tone about the true nature of man and animals triggers my poetic attention. In this way, I'm inspired to depict my emotions whether good or bad through either in spoken or written words.

-- 30 Jul 2017, 06:18 --

My internal and external tone about the true nature of man and animals triggers my poetic attention, in this way, I'm inspired to depict my emotions whether good or bad through either in spoken or written words.
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being in a relationship that would lead to marriage
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Post by JustEthel »

I tend to be poetic when I'm in love or when I'm sad. Depends really. I even write funny poems when I feel silly. Although I'm so sure if you can call it poetic.
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My choices and who I am/want to be

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