Advice for a brand new poet

Reading that gave me a headache. Please do not write until you have something to say.

Read Rilke's letters to a Young Poet

what you posted there is trite and meaningless, you're not ready for that kind of topic

>>9394108
>bad advice from a non-writer

>>9394098
> mostly am doing this as a hobby and a method of self expression

if this was true, you wouldn't post your work.
Learn meter first. Try to imitate poet's you like second. Write what you wanna write third. Everything else is too specific to the person.

>>9394098
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry

>>9394108

"and is mostly just me messing around with double entendres or gimmicky metaphors I come up with"

I want to practice, the first two I wrote I did have things to say but 0 ability to say them well. That one to me is just practicing wordplay and writing edgy shit for fun.

>>9394141
Thanks for the advice, and yeah I'm very aware it's meaningless. It just happened to be one of the cleaner ones in terms of structure I wrote. I also don't let anything that I come up with go un-written for the sake of having ideas on paper somewhere and the sake of practice.

That poem itself is useless but I still like the tears/diamonds blood/rubies as a metaphor for the value of life and I might re-use it someday for something "real".

>>9394156
Thank you too for the advice.

The one I put doesn't mean anything to me because as I said it is pretty empty. A lot of what I've written is just a vessel for a small idea or a bit of wordplay, the ones from the heart I wouldn't publicize on a whim like that.