My First Published Poem

The good news is that you don't have to spend many years studying the craft (although it does help); you don't have to go to some fancy school or listen to some college professor babble on and on. We are going to tell you right now, right here how anyone -that's right, even you- can learn to write the sweetest, most inspiring love poetry ever.

I am sometimes reminded of the first "real" poem I ever wrote. I was nine years old and it went something like this:

One last little rose

How lonely you must be

One last little rose

What will become of thee

All alone, All alone

So sad you must be

Little rose, little rose

Won't you come and visit me?

As you can tell, I was still learning a lot about poetry. And even though it may not be the best poem ever, it has some great potential. I think one reason people seem to like it even today is because while it may have been written by a child, it has rhythm and it has rhyme. It has almost a sing-song feel to it and it rolls off the tongue. This is a very important thing in poetry.

I will talk more about rhyme and rhythm later and every poem does not have to rhyme but there should be a rhythm and flow to it. Another thing that was good about this simple little poem is that it has feeling. There are so many different things that go into writing poetry - especially love poetry, to really make it good.