the extensive manual on writing modern poetry

[revise 4, 2013-01-10]

Nowadays
writing poetry
is rather a simple matter.

There are plenty of various means
to provide you an aid:
Google and online dictionaries,
Wikipedia & rhyme finding tools -
ancient Muse couldn't give you
such a lavish, rich help.

Today you have only
to write down your
brilliant idea and let the
omnipotent omnipresent
cyber intellect do for you
all the rest routine work
to turn it into an
evergreen masterpiece.

It will help you to manage
the meter and build
perfect rhymes it will
assist you with nearly
any form. Haiku or sonnet,
rondo, sestina - you
will pen all them with
no appreciable effort.

But…

  but if you are lazy enough
OR
  really stupid
    to use any system of poetry aid
OR,
  what today is really impossible to imagine,
    you have not an old notebook
OR
  not connected to
     internet

you still
can appear a significant poet
even much easier
easier and sooner then ever 't was possible

by choosing delightful
choosing
so wonderful
choosing most whimsical style
known as "free
verse"

now you don't
need to
worry of meter you
need neither to rhyme
nor rhythm and
you even have not
to exploit any form

all you need is to write
down a whole heap of
words break
the lines at
any
position preferably
at the
most unpredictable point

then to make it tune
spicy
to make it
look super
feel mystifying

you should pile
mass of cool words and
set them
in a pretty
eccentrical manner

never o never
use
neither CAPITALS
nor punctuations
or put them at, any, !wrong! place-
[inte rs_per#se ~~ lots ~~
of *unre@d@ble*
&pretty use.less++letters
and /types/]
.
.
combine not combinable
join what should never be joined
try to
always be _F.R.e.A.k.Y_
as much as it possible
~~~~~~~~~~~
make the reader feel fool
burst his weak feeble mind
make him
find self
completely
>
confused
>
perfectly
.
.
stupid

and
you will be soon recognized
as a really <cool> poet

now all you need is to
follow this guidance
strongly adhere
to these principles
and believe in
exclusively bright
potent
genius
of yours

trust me
some day
on this way
soon or late
you'll for sure
get
the
Pulitzer


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[revise 3,  2012-10-19]

Nowadays
writing poetry
is a simplest matter.
There are
plenty of various means
to provide you an aid.
Google
and lots
of online dictionaries,
Wikipedia &
rhyming help systems -
ancient Muse
couldn't give you
such a lavish,
rich
help.

Today
you have only to
write down your
brilliant
idea
while the omnipotent
omnipresent cyber intellect
will do for you
all the rest routine work
to make it
an evergreen masterpiece.

It will help you to manage
the meter
and build perfect rhymes
it will assist you
with nearly any form.
Haiku or sonnet, rondo, sestina -
you can pen all them
with no appreciable effort.

But…

but

if you are lazy enough
OR
really stupid to use any system of poetry aid
OR, what today is impossible
to imagine, you
simply have not an old notebook
OR you are not connected to
internet

then you can appear
a poet
even much easier

easier then ever
it was
choosing delightful
choosing
so wonderful and most whimsical
style
known as "free
verse"

now you don't
need to
worry of meter. You
need neither rhythm
nor rhyme and
you even have not to
exploit any form

but all you need is
to write down a
whole heap of words
break the lines at
any
position preferably at
the
most unpredictable
point

then to make it sound
some spicy
to make it look super
to feel mystifying
you must keep always in mind
that you need to collect
some cool words and then
group them in a pretty
eccentrical
manner


never o never

use
neither capitals
nor punctuations
or put them at, any, wrong place
[intersperse ~~ lots ~~
of *unreadable*
and pretty useless++
letters
and /types\]

combine not combinable
join what should never be joined
try to
always be fReAkY
as much as it possible

make the reader feel fool
burst his weak feeble mind
make him
find self
completely confused
and
perfectly stupid

and believe me
you will be soon
recognized
as a really cool poet

now all you need is to
follow this guidance
to strongly adhere to these
principles
and to believe in
your exclusively
bright
genius


and some day
soon or late
you'll for sure get the Pulitzer

----------------------
Pavel Nichkov