- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
Here are 5 ways how to write poetry: 1  Capture a moment. 2  One trap I can sometimes fall into is that I try to write the big poem or the poem filled with ideas (like love, hate, etc.). 3  What always works better, for me anyway, is to focus on one moment that expresses an emotion or works as a metaphor for a bigger idea.