(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.
