Poetry of Mental Graffiti

Memorial Service Poetry: Saying Goodbye Using Poetry
Death is not an easy subject for anyone to discuss or cope with. Often your emotions are so stirred up that it can be very difficult to come up with words of condolence for those that need them. Sometime you find yourself not saying anything at all and that can be even worse than saying the wrong thing. Poems can be the perfect way to get across what you want to say. Memorial service poems can actually put everyone more at ease during a funeral or memorial service.

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Designing Your Poetry Notebook

So now that you know a little more about what should actually go in your notebook, you might have some questions about how to actually create your notebook. Often people ask me “how do I make a notebook?” or “what should my notebook look like?” The great part about your poetry notebook is that it is yours and you can do anything you want with it. You can make it out of any type of paper you want and with any type of cover you want.

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Gianni Truvianni?s Ideas On Poetry

Poetry in all honesty was not something I ever really enjoyed reading, as it always seemed to be the thing that had no point and it was not a matter of me not understanding it or having trouble doing so but the thoughts of others simply not concerning me; regardless of how they were expressed. Another matter regarding poetry which I found to be limiting was the fact that in school I was told that a poem had to rhyme, basically in the way that it had to be written in such a fashion that a certain word had to sound like another, for instance the last word of the second line had to hit the ear in the same way as the last word from the third line. All of which seemed to me like following a cook book or a recipe; where one does not create but simply follows instructions, which I was able to do while in school but mostly in exercises that were the poems I wrote and left forgotten in classes.

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