One of the big things with writing original poetry is to use original language. One of the big complications that arise is creating those images and figures of speech that are purely of our own voices--and not of those built in us over time. Cliches: those figures of speech we hear daily, have lived with all our lives, it seems. We want to erase them from our poems. We want to reorder those words. The best way to write original language, then, is to be conscious of our phrases: keep them on our minds but tell them no!
Here are a few websites that list those cliches.
1. The "largest collection of cliches"
2. Cliche Finder
It may seem elementary, but one of the ways a writer checks themselves is to Google phrases from one's work. If there are a 10,000 hits, run away...
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