One thing to consider before asking yourself or anyone else the questions I pose below is to think about what the purpose of art (in general) is. Even as I focus mainly on poetry, I’m sure there are as many different reasons for writing poetry as there are poets, but personally I find there are …
Your muse, inspiration, spark, whatever you want to call it, doesn’t always come to you when you want it to. Several of the sources I used throughout this list have a plethora of prompts. For more general poetry prompts for the starting poet, The Mind’s Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark is …
By simply asking Google to give a definition of “nature” you get two definitions, but if you dig a little deeper, not even straying from the first page of results, you can pull up the Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge, and Macmillan dictionaries that’ll have anywhere from three to nine definitions. Just from this knowledge alone, it’s …