To Write a Poem

That was cool!

'Ello, it's Cello! Here for a review.

I'd like to start to say I appreciate satire poems. If you check my portfolio, my earlier works were nothing but satire. I even had a few things similar to this that poked fun at different types of writing. However, this work brought me little entertainment.
With all honesty, I've seen this joke in many places online before. I'll admit that I've fallen in the trap of overused humor while writing before but I learned from it and I hope to help you do the same.

Now, let's push aside my problem with the concept of this work and let's move on to pretending I fell in love with it and am simply here to help you improve.
This poem was broken into four lines. It is clearly a work meant for two. With the style you've formatted this in, the reader reads in a choppy fashion that in no way supports your thesis that hitting enter makes a poem. What do all poems have in common? Flow. They can rhyme, they can be free verse, they can be satire or serious, but they all have some sort of flow.
This did not.
For this to read slowly in a readers mind you'd have to write
"Just keep on pressing "enter"

while you... type some words."

Clearly, this does not have the 'poem look' you're going for. If you want to improve this, you'll need more content. Like I've said, I've seen jokes like this before and with all honesty they've worked just fine. They have a fair amount of content and I found myself reading the work like a poem. Take this for example-
"If you keep hitting enter
as you type
your writing sounds like poetry"
I saw this (or something very similar to this) on tumblr. The lines have more length and not just 'adding words to lengthen it'-length but content filled length. This gives the writing support and balances the feel of the words.

If you noticed earlier, I took the 'on' out of the poem. Although (to the best of my knowledge) 'keep on' is proper english, it's only used in very casual situations. Free verse poetry (Which you seem to be trying to imitate) it not for casual use. This type of writing tends to be filled with meaning and story. 'Keep on' is not something you'd expect to see.

I also removed the ellipsis. I really hate ellipsis' (is that the plural?). They're over used and repeatedly used improperly. Trailing off? Ellipsis! Taking words out of a quote? Ellipsis! Anything else? Probably not. (It all depends on the situation but I've never seen it used properly apart from the example I gave) You use an ellipsis to indicate that there's text or dialogue that's missing. You do not have this here so you do not need an ellipsis and besides, it slows the reader down even more.

I really hope you took a lot from this review and I encourage you to keep writing.

-ChocolateCello

Haha! I can relate to this, I have read a few poems where it seemed like the writer had just taken a description from their book, pressed enter every few words, and then published. It seems like that is what free verse poetry has become.

Hey there Keepwriting. It's just lizzy dropping by real quick, so without a further ado, let the reviewing begin.

Ahh. An extremely short poem, you can just love 'em, hate 'em, or both emotions at the same time. On the upside, the line by line analysis is easier but the meanings are more cryptic. Though from the title and description your meaning is pretty straight forward.

To Write A Poem

Do I need to describe this to you?

Just keep on

Pressing enter,

While you...

Type some words.

Hi! Sarah12 here to review. Or try to review, as it is so short.

This is very accurate, and it did hit the humorous side of me, although not very hard. I saw two things that could be changed, however.

1. In the title, "A" should not be capitalized. It should look like this: "To Write a Poem".

2. I'm not sure you need the ellipsis in the third line. I understand what you were trying to do with it, but it doesn't quite work. I'm going to keep thinking on that because I feel like something else would be better on that line there, or it could be rephrased somehow that would make it more effective, but I simply cannot think of it right now. I will comment it when I think of it.

Also, since the poem seems to be all one "sentence", you don't need to capitalize the beginning of any of the lines besides the first. That is personal choice, but I think it would be better if you didn't.

Congratulations on a very accurate poem, and, well, live up to your username and keep writing!

Sarah12

Hello Keepwriting!
First of all, I want to thank you, because this poem literally made me burst out laughing. Well done. As far as criticism goes, there isn't much I can say based from these 4 lines, but I will do my best to give you a decent review.

First of all, I would like to mention that this poem is incredibly accurate, for the title it was given. To define how to write a poem, you need to look at the definition of a poem. And, by definition, your "method" works to simply WRITE a poem. What I'm about to say will likely be completely opinionated, and you do not have to even acknowledge it (thus the spoiler). The choice is yours.