This might be a little more trivial than some other threads on here, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
My mother's birthday is coming up and she's hinted that she wants a poem. I recently learned that she really likes them, used to write them all the time, all that jazz. The problem is: I've never written a creative word in my life. I don't read very often, either. My familiarity with prose or rhythm or even meaning is minimal and my spirit is devoid of any real emotional pull or passion. In short, I'm a massive NPC retard. Both from a technical and an emotional standpoint, I'm completely clueless on how to write a poem. How the fuck do you do it? How do you determine something to write about and how do you write it to a passable quality? More critically, how do you do it in the span of a week?

>>33307775 (OP)
get ai to write it.

>>33307775 (OP)
I've just recently taken up poetry so I might be able to help a little. There are some poetic topics and forms that are a lot easier than others. For example, it's a lot easier to write something lighthearted than a deep and intimate love poem. And since this is for a birthday, lighthearted is probably fine.

Rhythm seems intimidating but it just takes a little "talking it through" so to speak
I think Anapestic rhythms are easiest so maybe you will too? They flow very naturally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapaest
(Basically just emphasize every third syllable, think limmericks)

So get a hold on basically any rhythm scheme, then instead of trying to think up something meaningful, recount an event, make it fun. Boom, there you go

>>33307775 (OP)
ChatGPT can probably help you. Tell it how you feel about your mum, and ask it to convert that into a particular poetic style and it'll do it for you.

>>33307846
>>33309365
I appreciate the advice, but I'd rather not do this; I think it negates the point of giving a poem as a gift and would be insincere.
>>33309002
Thank you! The examples on your link read really well, especially that Byron excerpt. It seems difficult to replicate but it's a nice place to start.

>>33309431
>I think it negates the point of giving a poem as a gift and would be insincere.
Well, you need to understand that your mother doesn't actually care very much about the structure of what you write; what she cares about are the feelings that underly it. If you like, you can tell her that you used ChatGPT; maybe give it several different authors and ask to write in the style of them, and show her the results. "So, this is Shelley... this is TS Elliott... this is ee cummings..." and so on.

If you really want to make it all your own work then, again, don't get too hung up on structure; concentrate on *what* you're trying to express, not on how. One possibility might be to think about some memories of you and your mother that you feel nicely sum up how you feel about her. If it were me, for example, I might talk about a time when I was a child and I went exploring on the beach, and got a bit lost, but I wasn't scared because I was absolutely certain that she would find me; and indeed she did. Or I might remember the special, magic way she put my socks on when we'd been swimming, or how much I loved my birthday cakes with candles set in a little model train around the edge. Those my memories, so they won't help you; but I'm sure you must have some of your own (not necessarily of when you were a child).

Or, if you want to try something a little more advanced, then try and think of a metaphor that describes how you feel about her. For example, are you a building and she's the foundation of the building - most people don't see the foundations when they look at you, but everything you are is built on them, and you would have collapsed without them? Or are you a ship, and your family home is your home port?