Help me with my 2015 resolution

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This year's gonna be a very difficult & confusing one, that much is abundantly clear to me. Thing is, I've decided all the trouble ought to be worth my while if I can articulate all the struggles & nonsense going on in my life more appealingly. Yours truly needs to become more poetic. I'm not limiting my aspirations to improving that one quality, it just stood out as a skill which might dramatically improve my circumstances...

I'm not quite sure what your goal is. But in terms of poetry, I really like the book "The Ode Less Travelled" by Stephen Fry. I admire Stephen Fry's eloquence, and I think aspies would generally enjoy his book about writing poetry.

Thanks! I've heard good things about him, strangely enough through time spent exploring obscure hiphop. I'll give that a read. I can't say I appreciate that he's a huge Apple fanboy but what can one do?

Ok I hope you like it!

I don't see anything wrong with your writing style, but maybe reading the bard would help?

or any of your favourite poets, I'm not sure to what style in particular are you aiming.

Just let it flow.

That was Walt Whitman's style---"letting it flow."

Heh whenever I let words flow it turns into a surrealistic pseudo-hallucinatory lucid nightmare. Failing an update after waiting two weeks for a patch I threatened to vomit spiders on my laptop (speaking to the laptop ). In general I gravitate to free verse, prose and transcendentalism although sometimes I try to memorize my way through rhyme. Rhyming style is something I'm all too prone to confuse with alliteration. Even though I consider myself a devout thoreaovian I don't really know much Whitman...

Haiku can be fun
but sometimes it makes no sense
refridgerator

I got a mix & match flip book of Shakespearean insults for Xmas but I doubt that will help much high school was a a fair while ago for me so you're probably right. I guess I could say I'm intent on becoming more naturalistic and introspective in my diction, primarily in order to come across as less divisive and make my hippie nature as apparent as it was before the inside joke began about me wanting a serial port on my brain stem. It's only a half-joke now...

Maybe you could be a sane Rimbaud? Baudelaire?

Nothing wrong with being surrealistic, as long as you have some reality to return to once you've created your impressions.

Maybe incorporate the corporeal with the hallucinatory?

You would benefit from Whitman, IMHO.

I just started The Ode Less Traveled and the pencil interactivity is gonna be strange (my notes are usually on graph paper) but the fact that it's a coded dissection of everything my English classes failed to ingrain in me is quite promising.

Introspection is needed...