Whats wrong with love poetry?
Nothing’s wrong with love poetry – some of the best poems ever written have been love poems. But it’s difficult to write a good one, and it’s easy to fall into the pitfalls of cliché, hackneyed phrases and over-used metaphors. Don’t strive to be original, because the far end of that extreme is the “Avant-Garde” – the land of writing that is often strange for strangeness’s sake, which seems a lazy way to write. It’s pretty easy to write something in a way that’s never been written about before if you don’t care about the outcome. If you string a few hundred random words together you’ll likely be completely original, but your output will very unlikely be anything resembling poetry.
