A Poet Poem by Lawrence Hiung

What does it takes to be a poet?
A creative mind and soul
Bump starting with
Daring inner voices.

Visualization,
Imagery, metaphor,
Get into Dreamy world
Solitude place

Drafting, re-draft and revision,
Choose your subject matter.
Let your inner gut instinct and intuition,
Guide you along the way.

Create moody feeling.
Dreamy and day dreaming
Context, stanza, forms, tones and lines breaking
Writing in different styles
Get rhythm and rhyme to choose from

It doesn't mean a thing if
It isn't got that swing and flow.
Re-read, re-write and revise.
To compose the finest lines and
rhyme of poem.
@ rev 1 Sept,6 2023