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This week: Poetry Resolutions into Poetry Goals Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
Gustave Flaubert
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
T. S. Eliot
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Turn Poetry Writing Resolutions Into Accomplishable Poetry Writing Goals
Ahh, yes. It’s that time of year again: when many people make resolutions that are thrown to the wayside in a month or so. So how can you turn your poetry writing resolutions into accomplishable poetry goals? And why would you want to turn resolutions into goals? A basic difference between resolutions and accomplishable goals is that resolutions tend to be broad sweeping statements and accomplishable goals tend to be clear, purposeful steps.
For example, you may say that you want to publish your poetry this year as a resolution. This broad sweeping declaration may work, but most resolutions fail. My suggestion is to turn it into an accomplishable goal.
So how can you do that?
Well, here’s what I do:
1) Evaluate what it will take to accomplish.
2) Make a specific statement to define that goal.
3) Work every day towards that goal.
4) Find a way to have accountability.
Evaluate: While there isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be published no matter what you do, you can’t get published if you do not submit your polished poetry. So, you could say that writing poetry, polishing, and researching publishers would all be part of this kind of a submission goal.
Specific statement: You could choose to make several statements including all elements of your evaluation or you could make a more simple statement, knowing what parts are needed to accomplish that goal—whichever works best for you—and adjustment as you go as you find out more about yourself and what works best is okay, too. So in the interest of simplicity, let’s say you decide to go with: "I will submit 2 poems every month," knowing that part of that includes what you evaluated.
Work Daily: What I’ve done in the past when working towards my goals is to create a plan that works towards achieving them. In this case, every day you would either write or polish poetry, research publishers or submit your poetry.
Accountability: There are a few ways you can do this. You can have a goal buddy—maybe someone who has a similar goal, you can create a visual—like a chart or check things off on a calendar and/or you can post in: "Weekly Goals" [13+].
To get you started, here is a poetry form to play with.
Trolaan
Valerie Peterson Brown is the poet that came up with this poetry form.
MUST HAVES
--Each stanza must begin with the same letter. Each line of the first stanza begins with the same letter that begins the first line. Each line of the second stanza begins with the second letter in the first line of the first stanza. The third stanza lines begin with the second letter of the first line of the second stanza, and the final stanza lines begin with the second letter of the first line of the third stanza.
--Amount of lines per stanza: 4.
--Amount of stanzas: Usually 4.
--Rhyme: ababcdcdefefghgh.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Topic.
--Meter.
SOURCE NOTES:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/trolaan.html
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