Poems often need time to incubate within your head, one of the best ways of achieving this is to actually forget you are working on the poem. Immerse yourself in some sort of physical activity – crafting, painting, gardening or going for a run are the main ways people manage this.

Ideas seem to just pop into the poets mind or an existing idea gets mulled over – but it is a process you can not force if you sit there thinking about the poetry you will probably be as stuck as if you were sitting there with paper and pen. Let yourself be consumed by the activity and only when an idea or concept presents itself should you start thinking about where it is going as a poem.