One of the best things to do to\nmake a poem better is to read your poem aloud. Find a poem that you\u2019d like to\nmake better and do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Can you replace weak words with\nmore visual words? Words like \u201cthat\u201d or \u201cwas\u201d or \u201cis\u201d can usually be replaced\nwith something stronger. Try to make every word count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) Listen to the sounds of each\nword. Is there a sound that\u2019s repeated in your poem? Can you replace words to\nadd more of that sound? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) Read your poem very slowly. Pause\nat the end of each line. Is that the best word to end on? Play with your line lengths\nand with punctuation. Make readers read it the way you want them to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) Repeat these steps until you\u2019re\nsatisfied and then read the poem once more aloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happy revising!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began\n this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1400 days ago. We now take turns \ncreating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the \n7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or \n if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Revision One of the best things to do to make a poem better is to read your poem aloud. Find a poem that you\u2019d like to make better and do the following: 1) Can you replace weak words with more visual words? Words like \u201cthat\u201d or \u201cwas\u201d or \u201cis\u201d can usually be replaced with something … Continue reading “Poetry Prompt #138”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}