So you want to be a poet Alliteration. Rhyme. Haiku. Limerick. Do you know what any of these terms mean? If not, then you, my friend, are poetically challenged. And no, you're not alone; it's a common complaint. What on earth, you ask, does poetically challenged mean? Don't bother looking in the dictionary for it, it's a term I made up. It means someone who has trouble creating poetry. Amateur poetry, of course, usually consists …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…But be careful! Some can slip through. Check your grammar "Fuzzy thought long and hard about the matter, but the more he thought about it, the more he doesn't like it." Be careful about accidentally switching tenses in a sentence, or the poem for that matter. The End! I hope this article helped you become a better poet! I'll be watching out for your poem in the local literary magazine. This is mysticasend, signing off.:)