Today, I'd like to present the idea of working with metaphor.
There are things in this world which get to us. Every single person has something or other that drives him or her absolutely crazy. I want you to tap into that idea:
Think of something that makes you feel sick.
This can be anything from that one food you absolutely love but is just bad for you; it could be politics; it could be other people and their silly eccentricities; it could be anything you want it to be. Now, to keep this idea going: when we get sick, we have some kind of medication that we can take to help alleviate the symptoms. So, if you get sick of hearing about politics, what do you do in order to alleviate that "sickness"? Do you talk to other people, yell at the TV, write poems, cry in a corner?
If we think about the things that annoy us as a sickness and the things we do to deal with those annoyances as medication, then we can start to build a poem/metaphor out of those ideas.
Good luck and happy writing!
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