How to Write Poetry for Others: More About How to Write Meaningful Love Poetry

Over the generations, there have been thousands of love poets who have written meaningful, significant and effective love poetry, only to have their work senselessly destroyed, plagiarized by someone else or even lost. Numerous love poets and others have not recognized the value or the merit of love poetry and the meaningful message that it conveys. Tragically, many pieces of love poetry have wound up tossed aside or the message contained within the love poetry has been ignored or forgotten.

One of the ways to combat this tragic scenario is by learning how to write more meaningful love poetry, so that it touches, changes and enhances the lives of others. 

As a professional love poet, do you always write love poetry that appears to be meaningful to you and others? If you are truly a love poet, that is probably the only kind of poetry that you ever write. Thus, as a writer of meaningful love poetry, be aware that your love poetry does have value in terms of being a valuable literary work, with the potential to offer an extremely important message of love, joy, peace and hope to others.

On the other hand, your love poetry may express the negative or dark side of love. We often come to know the full meaning and significance of all aspects of life, when we see the dark side of something in contrast to its lighter side.

Be aware that even personal love poetry may prove to be a masterpiece of content, meaning and significance for others, now or at some time in the future.

As a writer of meaningful love poetry, title and document your work. You may want to number each piece of poetry for later reference. Record some of the details about the background of your love poem, too.

How did it come about?

Why did you write it?

Why is it meaningful to you, or possibly, to someone else?

A lot of love poetry is put to music over time, so be aware that you can touch and change the lives of others with its musicality. Emphasizing the musicality in your love poetry will help to add a new and different dimension to your work and offer an unexpected, unusual or unique element of expression to it.

Always seek to obtain, honest, positive and constructive feedback from others, with respect to your love poetry. That is not always an easy task to accomplish, as many times, love poetry is often regarded as being simplistic, idealistic and romantic.

Talk to professional love poets about your love poetry. By entering into a dialogue with them, you will soon learn whether your love poetry has meaning for them or if they see it as being significant to others, in some way.

What is your source of inspiration? It does not really matter what the actual source is with regard to your love poetry, as love, by its very nature, is extremely diverse and complex. Everything and everyone can prove to be inspirational, in some way. Writing love poetry about what inspires a love poet can be meaningful to the writer, as well as to many others.

Keep on writing love poetry regardless of the response that you receive to it. Do not get discouraged and give up. Recognize the reality that at first, there may be only a small number of people who find your work meaningful. It may take time before others become aware of its true significance.

Know that if you touch and change the life of even one individual, your efforts at writing meaningful love poetry will not have been in vain, so put your time, energy and your whole heart into writing meaningful love poetry for others, not just for yourself.

Trust God's Holy Spirit to lead you to write love poetry that expresses His divine meaning for you and others.

Let your muse inspire you.

Remember that if your love poetry truly has true meaning or significance for you and your life, it will probably affect others that way, also.

Write on, love poet and enjoy your new love poetry writing experience!  

Christmas: Should Love, Joy and Peace Be Openly Expressed to Others During the Holiday Season?

What is the best gift you can give to others?  An open expression of love, joy and peace is probably the best gift that you can convey to others during the holiday season. The birth of the Christ child brings that message to us. Passing it on to others reveals its reality to them.

Note this prophecy from the Old Testament. 

“For a child will be born to us, a son will be given and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6

True believers welcome open expressions of love, joy and peace. Even pseudo-believers or those who claim to be Christian, but do not really believe in the basic teachings of Christianity, will respond to love, joy and peace in a positive way. Unbelievers, members of other faiths, religions or cultures will see the love, joy and peace that you express during the holiday season and realize that there is something real about the Christmas message. You may have an opportunity to share the Christmas message with them.

How can you express love, joy and peace to others appropriately, during the holiday season?

Regardless of who you are or where you live, there are others around you who probably do not know or understand the basic teachings of Christianity, the circumstances of the birth of Jesus or the implications and significance of his life, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension as revealed in the New Testament.

Greeting people warmly and welcoming them into your home during Christmas and New Years, is one way to have an opportunity to talk to them in an environment where they can feel safe and comfortable. When you extend an open door to them, they will sense that there is something special happening in your heart, at your hearth and in your home. They may have questions about the meaning of Christmas, but perhaps they are afraid to ask anyone. Take the time to answer these questions for them.

Love, joy and peace can convey healing, health and wholeness to others. Happiness expressed in a sense of family and community, as well as in the global expression of love, joy and peace is contagious. In other words, it spreads.

While there are others in different parts of the community and country, as well as around the world, who are suffering for various reasons including war and natural disasters, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc. and stand in need because of homelessness, poverty and famine, your outward expression of love, joy and peace, can help them to restore their lives. Even though you may not be able to help everyone in the world, you can pray for people everywhere. You may also be able to help one person, a couple or a family in your area. When you address the needs of children, their parents will often respond with love, joy and peace, too. 

Focusing on and openly addressing the positive, rather than the negative aspects of Christmas, will touch and change the lives of others, as well as increase your own love, joy and peace during the holiday season.     

Old Versus New: The Art of Letter Writing

Is the art of letter writing dying? Perhaps it might be more accurate to suggest that the old method of transmitting letters is in a state of transition. It becomes a question of the old versus new, when it comes to the art of letter writing, but at the same time, love letter writing will never end.

It is interesting to note that letter writing has gone through a multiplicity of transitions over the course of history, all the way from writing letters on walls, papyrus, slates and paper to the transmission of Internet messages, in our era.

In many ways, letter writing has always been an art form with specific rules of etiquette, for each era.

For example, the article, “Etiquette: The Victorian Art of Letter Writing," reveals some of the secrets of proper letter writing during that era.

With the introduction of ever advancing, electronic technology and with an eye to our future, it would appear that the art of letter writing is expanding and being refined further rather than disappearing, as some might suggest.

New rules of etiquette will continue to appear in the future. These new rules will be appropriate for the letter format of each era.

Computer e-mail opened the door to electronic letter writing and even longer letters like newsletters. Now informative newsletters are taking on the format of personal blogs, but then, newsletters are not new and different, just computer generated now..

With the recent introduction of smart phones and text messaging, the art of letter writing is once again in a state of transition. These letters are shorter, more succinct and to the point.

Love letters will never cease to be a part of our literary history, as love will never die. The communication of love from one person to another is something that is timeless, even though its expression may vary. Love letters take on many different formats, for example, recently changing from cards to e-mail cards with messages or short letters sent as part of the e-mail cards.

Note that different kinds of script used in letters of the past, were, still are and will always be an important part of the art of letter writing process. It is not only the written words, but also the style and the format of the script in the letter that makes letter writing an art. This has aesthetic appeal to the eye of the beholder and each script makes a statement of some kind.

Old letters were handwritten or more recently typed on paper. With the advent of printers, the same kinds of letters can now go through a printer or a fax machine. It only takes a few moments to send or fax them to someone. Printing a letter can be in any format.

Delivery of letters by courier or mail-man/mail-lady is still the fashion of the day, but snail mail is transitioning to e-mail or text messaging, which is almost instantaneous in terms of its time delivery factor.

The words people convey in their letters may change from those of merely factual letters conveying information of various kinds to more formal words, like those included in business letters for various projects, including fund raising.

A familial letter might be a letter of condolences. Letters often convey family information or in a broader sense as part of a larger family, newsletters to communities. These may become online newsletters, as well.

Throughout history, people have desired to communicate with one another via letters of some kind. This is not likely to change. There will always be letter writing although its art form may change repeatedly throughout generations to come. Its mode of transmission will possibly change also.

Enjoy the letters you send and receive because letter writing is an art, unique to human beings. It may change, but it will never die.