So how do I get started with poetry? How do I properly write poems?

Start with nursery rhymes like Mother Goose and the some Dr. Seuss.

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>>9285764
if you write in english. Read up extensively on the rules of haiku and sonnets. Learn to write them functionally and then you can write anything.

Focus on imagery and sonic (meter, if you use it, rhyme, alliteration, assonance) qualities before really pushing at symbolism and motifs and narrative.

Try not to let the poem get too lost in it self.

This is one of my pieces, I'm not trying to get stroked or anything so don't respond to it, but use it as a guide to whether or not you trust my advice

>>9285764
I'm going to assume you have a basic education on poetry? As in, are familiar with things like meter, rhyme, form, feet, and so on?

If so, just continue to read a lot, a mixture of the classics, modern, and contemporary. Start with your morning with Shakespeare sonnets or Keats, lunch with Eliot's "Prufrock" or Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantine," and dinner with Ashbery or Shaughnessy. It's important to first get a decent overview of poetry before diving into any one poet or era, I'd say.

As for writing, I think the best approach is to view poetry the same way the ancients and classicists did---as a craft, not mere personal expression dedicated to man and self. Look up various forms and try to write a few poems that way---many sonnets, some with wilder rhyme schemes, and ultimately some 'free verse.'

or just write in this manner
with random breaks and
no concern
for conventional grammar,
just expressing
myself
for
the
world
to see.

>>9285764
what's a proper poem? sounds gay

Read T S Eliot until you're a god among men.