Tips on How to Write Poetry

 1. Know your goal

2. Avoid clichés

3. Avoid sentimentality

4. Use images

5. Use metaphor and simile

6. Use concrete words instead of abstract words

7. Communicate theme

8. Subvert the ordinary

9. Rhyme with extreme caution

10. Revise, revise, revise

11. Tricks with language

12. Use personification

13. Use the idea of “contrast”

14. Use symbolism

15. Ambiguity