As a working poet and national poetry workshop leader, author Sandford Lyne offers approachable writing exercises, commonsense guidance, and enchanting encouragement that will easily bring out the poet dwelling inside you. Within the book's twenty chapters, you will learn how to create word groups for 'poem-sketching,' a technique where word images, phrases, sentences, and sentence fragments are 'sketched' onto paper in order to capture ideas, emotions, and atmospheres that can possibly create a poem. And, in as little as a few minutes, you can find your voice and begin to compose poems of your own!

This is not your typical how-to-write-poetry book. Novice and experienced writers looking to try a creative new endeavor or explore a budding interest will not be disappointed. This is a gem of a book!' Includes appendix of additional suggested reading material and another of suggested word groups.

'I want to put a book in your hands that will help you find the poet inside you. ... And I absolutely want it to be a book that will be useful to your soul's journey and awakening, for writing poems and the soul's awakening are made to go hand in hand.' -Sandford Lyne, author of Writing Poetry From the Inside Out