I owe you two texts. The one on 01 and today... Come on. #Desafio 365 Days (032, 365) I'd told you about my process of writing books. Today I'll explain how I usually do it with poetry. The things I like most about poetry have to do with structure and sound; a well-made phrase that makes it tasty in the ears, the use of phonetic repetitions, etc. There's a poem of mine that says: Sweet instrument of the gods and the wise, Know the secrets of your sighs" Here, I use "wise" and then "Know the" - which, soundfully, imposes a phonetic repetition. The structure is also an important part of my poems. Although I have several "free" poems, I like to use internal rules to follow them. The other day, I read a beautiful verse by the poet MarU who had the following structure: - Three-verse stanzas. - verse 1 with 6 poetic syllables and rhymes A. - verse 2 with more syllables (but with supports) and rhymes B. - verse 3 with 10 poetic syllables; rhymes The one in the sixth syllable and rhymes B in the last. Example: the poem "To the Moon", in the 028 of the challenge 365 days (look at my page). Thus, explained, it seems meaningless (after all, the idea of the poem is to extravagant feelings, to thrill, etc.). But I feel that, using fixed structures, you can do it in a more perennial way. Other structures: use internal and braided rhymes (a rhyme of the end of a verse appears in the middle of the following verse), consecrated forms (sleep, Alexandrino verses, Limerick, etc). I always try to lay down a rule for my poems; it helps me to evolve as if it were a study (and it is, after all). Ezra Pound encouraged free modernist poetry, but always reiterated the need to study structures, such as learning. Have you ever tried to make a poem just with words that start with the letter A? Have you ever tried making a poem with perfect rhymes and proparoxytons? Have you ever tried a poem with only two poetic syllables per verse? All this is learning, and even if the poem itself doesn't look very beautiful, it's already served to make you find technical solutions. In my next poem (which I will post shortly, as the 032 of the challenge), I created the following structure: - All stanzas have four verses. Verses 2 and 3 (internal) rhyme with verses 1 and 4 (external) of the previous verse. - the first stanza begins with 13 poetic syllables and, with each stanza, I am reducing one, until the last stanza has only one poetic syllable. I'll finish explaining in the next post, with the poem...