Look for the poetry that stirs you: Words

For me, that’s always going to be language heavy. 

Like, I read a lot of poems in books and on the internet that just sound like day time talk show guests things to introduce themselves. It’s bland in word choice (not to mention forced in intention and energy). 

Where are my fellow poets who crack open the sternum of our language, and scrape out the viscera? Even if you only have a couple knocking cuts of alliteration and/or wide wondering wanders with vowels and consonants to flavor your drab observations. I already read plenty of news and dull social media posts. 

I work for a living and am inundated with uninspired emails, IMs, meeting notes, white papers, presentations, and the limp noodles that so many professionals call sentences. No. Writing poetry for me  cannot just be about the message, the thing you want to say, or the thing you want your reader to feel. 

Find fun words! A commandment.