Tips For Becoming an Successful Love Poet: Love is a Vital Part of Human Emotions

(Note that these website will also include other articles by W. Diane Van Zwol about love poetry.)

Many love poets have been remarkably successful in the past centuries. Love poets will continue to succeed in the future because love is a vital part of human emotions. This means that as a potential love poet, you can succeed, as well.

Love poets who succeed tend to write powerful, potent and passionate love poetry. Perhaps the inevitable success of love poets has to do with their abundance of sweet, tender words that trigger human passion. A number of other key factors lead to their success including the unspoken, yet inherent vulnerability of each human heart to love poetry.

Learning how to succeed as a love poet in this era is vital, as there is intense, global competition.

Love by its very nature is destined to succeed and thus, true love poets will succeed also. Pseudo love poets will be exposed as such, in time.

To become a successful love poet, consider the following tips:

Romance

The element of romance in love poetry has to do with the poet’s personal, romantic tendencies. Love poets experience intense, sometimes almost overpowering feelings they are able to emote easily and effectively in words. Sentimentality is an important aspect of love poetry. Love poets are acutely aware of the unspoken, inherent vulnerability of each human heart to relate to love poetry and address that vulnerability freely and openly.

Readability

Love poetry has a high level of readability. In other words, love poetry can be relatively simple or complex, but it speaks to each individual or collective reader on an emotional plane with a high degree of power, potency and passion, not always found in other kinds of poetry. Love poetry awakens human emotions, as the love poet demonstrates his or her own depth of passion in a negative or positive manner. Readers relate to love, joy, anger, sorrow and grief, as they are emotions that are common to all people.

Musicality

Love poetry has a high degree of musicality. Singing love poetry, as well as reciting it, enhances the potency of the love inherent within its poetic context. Love, in its own way, sings and causes the human soul to celebrate in song, too.

Timeliness and timelessness

The power of love poetry lies in its timeliness and timelessness. It addresses its era, at times every era. It is not bound. Love and expressions of love can be both timely and timeless. 

Word imagery

The words in love poetry come across to others as being potent in terms of the word imagery used to express the love poet’s sincerity. They reveal the depth of feelings that emerge from the heart of the love poet. Contextually, the words or phrases used in the creation of love poetry can often stand on their own. 

Their power increases with the use of romantic imagery.

Knowing the nature of love, love poetry and having the desire to express love appropriately, a sincere love poet will succeed.

Christmas in Contemporary Love Poetry

Christmas, probably more than any Christian celebration other than Easter, is the source of inspiration for many pieces of contemporary love poetry every year, because it speaks to the very heart of mankind.

Contemporary love poets continually introduce new messages of love related to the birth of Jesus, globally. There are no limitations to the vast horizons of expression with respect to Christmas greetings and messages penned by contemporary love poets over the years; nor should there ever be.

Every possible holiday greeting or message finds its way into poetic writings about Christmas, the events leading up to it and its actual celebration. There is invariably a tremendous emphasis on its historical aspect, subject to current day expression, which in turn is open to further interpretation in the future.

Criticism of contemporary love poetry related to Christmas can vary considerably because with Christmas, there are varying degrees of associated religious controversy. In other words, contemporary love poetry related to Christmas can be quite controversial, whether historically accepted by people or not. Contemporary love poets, as well as critics and readers, range from believers to non-believers.

Emotion is a key element in contemporary love poetry about Christmas, particularly with respect to expressions of joy. Elation often runs rampant, but it is not always accepted by everyone, particularly when it contradicts the understanding of others in terms of the meaning of Christmas, which may be subject to misunderstanding.

Of course, there are other important factors to consider, one of which is the understanding of the concept of giving, in relation to the gift of His Son to mankind by God, and the offshoot of it, in terms of giving of gifts to one another.

The personification of Santa Claus enters the scene as well, continually re-surfacing in terms of both Christian and non-Christian understandings of Christmas. There is no limit to contemporary love poetry written about Santa Claus, with much of it being directed towards the teaching and entertainment of children of all ages, in every era.

Poetic writings and Christmas music are an exciting part of Christmas every year, all around the globe. Contemporary love poets have found expression of their contemporary love poetry through Christmas music, ever since Christmas began to be celebrated. This continues in the present and will continue on into the future, regardless of critics or readers who oppose it. The message of love is eternal and cannot be refuted, even though it may be protested by some.

No one can deny the importance of Christmas as revealed in contemporary love poetry of the past, or the present. It will also be an important part of contemporary love poetry in the future. The same message of love is always expressed in conjunction with its time. Each literary expression opens the horizon of meaning and significance, even further.

The contemporary love poet acts as an instrument of literary expression, whose contemporary love poetry is invariably expanded upon later.

New words, concepts, thoughts and ideas continue to emerge in every era, including the present, where there is an ever increasing emphasis on the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is open to interpretation as well, and thus even related to the traditional Christmas theme and its expressions thereof, there can be tremendous controversy.

But, Christmas will continue, in conjunction with its vast array of literary expression by contemporary love poets. Love never ends or its expression in contemporary love poetry in every era.

The Creative Spirit in Contemporary Love Poetry

One of the key elements in contemporary love poetry is creativity. In fact, it is the creativity of the contemporary love poet that brings his or her poetic works to life in each era. Without the creative spirit, contemporary love poetry would not come to life. The creative spirit introduces a celebration of new life, unique to its time.

Unfortunately, there are those who feel threatened by the creativity of others, as if their own work is likely to be squelched by it. In reality, each creative work stands alone, or on its own, its true merit waiting to be discovered in time, whether in its own era, or perhaps a later one.

No two contemporary love poets are ever really in competition with each other, unless they choose to compete. While competition can be great in terms of instigating new contemporary love poetry, it can also be time consuming and even feel threatening to the contemporary love poet who is forced to produce.

The muse of the contemporary love poet may not find appropriate expression through a gifted contemporary love poet who is not comfortable competing openly with others. Without appropriate expression by the muse, the contemporary love poet may be silenced temporarily or permanently.

Creativity gives that spark of light evident in a contemporary love poet's work. It brings about a uniqueness of thought and feelings, that only a particular contemporary love poet can express adequately. Even he or she may struggle to express its fullness, at times.

Critics and readers of contemporary love poetry in every era, may not be able to comprehend a contemporary love poet's creative train of thought, because it is so new and different. At times, it may be years before its true meaning is understood by anyone. Even the poet may not be able to explain it to others in a way that they can understand.

The creativity emphasizes the artistic expression realized by a contemporary love poet through his or her poetic works. Depending upon his or her use of language, it may be perceived as beautiful, perfect or totally astounding by some, and ugly, imperfect or commonplace by others. There are still others who experience no reaction to it simply because they are absorbed in their own worlds of thought.

Addressing the creative genius in a contemporary love poet's work can only come about through the recognition of its merit by someone who is able to recognize its value. Who is able to comprehend it? There may only be one person or just a few who can understand what has been written. At times, there may be groups of people with a specific mindset, who hold the key to its interpretation.

Creativity should never be squelched as the creative genius of one person often leads to the creative genius in another. It is like a series of stepping stones historically, or building blocks that have to have some kind of initial foundation. 

Acknowledging the creative spirit in contemporary love poetry is important, particularly with respect to encouraging contemporary love poets to continue their endeavors in every era.