A guide on how to start poetry, aimed at dispelling myths about poetry being higher-order or difficult to get into or impossible for any "mere prose writer" to try their hand at. Poetry is no mythical Excalibur, nor stiff-prided Pegasus. Poetry is what you make of it, and at the end of the day, poetry is poetry.
Many thousands of thanks to Vishardsh, who gave this an excellent and incredibly detailed txt file crit review, and to lzhoudidion, who gave this a final look-through and suggested some pieces that had been missing and encouraged me to get off my butt and post. You are both valued more than you know.
Sweet readings, and I hope to see an influx of poetry to the WL in the coming months. Happy fishing for dreams.
-Styg
What is life if not the contrast between what has been and what will become?