you gotta elaborate man what the fuck do you mean how do I make my poems I make my poems I write them but will you what's the secret I don't fucking know shit

Deadass, the inspiration for this poem came from me going on a walk and seeing thunder in the sky and thinking wow that's fucking beautiful.

Like, I meant how... How do you think about your poems before writing them? That's how I meant.

Sorry about the confusion. I was just really tired.

Nah, nah, it's all good. I mean, I could- I don't gatekeep, I might as well just tell you what I think about, um... So it's not really about what I think about, it's more about in the moment. I just do it. Thinking isn't... is it, like... I don't think beforehand, I think while I'm doing it. It's on the spot a lot of the time. Um, you- you don't... you... okay, so there's a few ways I do this.

You start off with the name, something that sounds interesting, something that sounds unique, and that is what the story, the poem, is going to be based off of. When writing a poem, you want to give off an image, you want to put an image inside someone's brain, you want to make them think about the scenario.

And that scenario is supposed to represent something something that you feel something that you've experienced something that you have seen It's supposed to represent something in your day-to-day life or just something complex that is hard to explain with words But that is what a poem What I think about when I think about my poems, all right, but how I write them is a little bit different

Remember, poems aren't supposed to, not always supposed to rhyme, and you gotta remember to use similes, hyperboles, alliteration, just all of that Jimmy John kinda shit, you know, just to get it in there, because you want it to pop, you want it to give emotion, you want to feel something, you wanna have goosebumps, you don't wanna just sit there and be reading a bunch of words going, ah, this is dull and boring. You wanna really put an experience into the words, you know?

I really enjoy using repetition and alliteration in my writing because it really emphasizes what I'm trying to say without over-indulging and over-explaining something, giving a bunch of analogies and similes to what I really am wanting them to understand, but simply just saying something over and over again gets the point across effectively.

So just to recap everything I just said, make a name, think about how you want them to feel, think about the scenario, think about the image inside your head, and use different kinds of figurative language to get that point across to give it a pop. That's like the touch up to the whole thing, if that makes any sense.