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How do you convey emotion in words?

DawnRaider
Dr
Fire of Insight
United Kingdom 6awards
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From my point of view; yes, all the time and then something happens, good or bad, something pisses me off or makes me smile and I write about how I feel. Write from your heart and you can't go far wrong my friend

drone
Tyrant of Words
Greece 10awards
Joined 3rd Sep 2011
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I put everything
that I have inside
into the words
that I write
but the problem
becomes a bitch
when I try to fit words
into the meaning
of what I feel
and they have to fit
the words
that come after
the biggest bitch of all
is the feelings
that I have
that have meaning
but there are NO words
to convey the thoughts
that i'm feeling
so the only thing
I can do
is use
a poor substitute
words

poet Anonymous

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Nari
Laura Jean
Fire of Insight
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Joined 2nd July 2018
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Offer a portal ie other wordly; escapism through story telling. People are generally on board with that kind of thing.

Karlasophia
Strange Creature
Joined 25th Jan 2019
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As a rule, everything is written on my face

blinkers55
Strange Creature
United States
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love and happiness excluding all others

blocat
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 1st Nov 2012
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Write it anyway, no matter how bad you think it is then start to go over it a line at a time. Pick on the emotive words and ask: is there a better word? A word that expresses how I feel better than this word? For instance: Could I use the word rage instead of the word anger? Then, step back and ignore it for a day or so before taking another look. Even a genius like Ernest Hemmingway said his first draft of anything he wrote was shit.  
I'm not saying this is the right way for you, but it works for me. That's how I'd do it anyway. Good luck with it.

badmalthus
Harry Rout
Dangerous Mind
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A new born's coffin is so small and fragile...

inechoingsilence
Thought Provoker
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I like Blocat's answer and I'd expand on that a tiny bit more. Examine every word - actions, emotions, tenses. Can you say it with more emphasis, authenticity? Does everything flow? Say the poem out loud - how does it make you feel?

David_Macleod
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Tyrant of Words
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Joined 5th Nov 2014
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witing from the extremities of personal emotions are now second nature to me, I find it comes to the fore more and more and I have to deliberately change the mood in which I write. Somebody quite famous taught a very important lesson once. He said write something, anything, but, spend two hours writing every day, 7 days a week, despite mood. This I have practised since 2014. I would say about after six months of this you will start to write more organically and your mind will pick the subjects you write about, so much so that you will start to write a finished poem and where the hell that one came from

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