Commissioned poems are only as good as the nickname, the argument about the dog, and the year everything fell apart. People expect a crude homage to warmth, which is, conversely, what causes a room to lose interest.
We provide details before anyone starts the first line. Names. Characteristics. Fragments of memory that almost recall entire sentences. The debatable line that nobody includes in the argument that matters anymore. The poet sort through the details for what they keep in the poem, and what they let linger in the margins.
Rhymes will ruin a beginning poet’s attempt at writing verse, because rhymes often determine meanings. A crafted poet knows when a line should end without rhyme, when a rhyme is best left as a dangling partial rhyme, and when a given poem demands a less rigid form. It’s from judgment built over years of reading thousands of different poems that a poet can decide when to use rhyme sparingly.
Generative poems use the same worn out words. The same sentences keep popping up about sea and candle imagery, coupled with ‘golden threads’ and ‘closing couplets’ about forever. Feed the model prompts with your details and it will bury those beneath the same old vocabulary because the average of ten million poems is the feeling you’re trying to avoid.
To begin, we have a short questionnaire and optional 15-minute call. The poet is seeking only a few detail this only you would know. Then they provide the form: free verse to be read at a memorial or something more condensed to account for the noise of a dining room reading. The draft includes additional options for endings.
This is the last chance to practice reading the poem out loud. Words that appear to be in their proper order on a page can be impossible to say, and poems read at weddings have to make it past nervousness and microphones. The poet adds where they think breaks should occur, and gets rid of anything that isn’t easy to say. The poem is delivered in a version that is designed to be read from a card.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical poem | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short poem | 150 | $15 | $0.15 | $15.15 |
| Occasion poem | 400 | $40 | $0.40 | $40.40 |
| Set of five poems | 1,000 | $100 | $1 | $101 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Every draft goes through an editor, then through several AI detectors and a plagiarism check. Anything that does not come back clean is revised or reassigned. You get the reports with the delivery email.
What the piece is for, who reads it, roughly how long it should be, and anything it must include or avoid. Links to your existing material help. If you are unsure, send what you have and the writer will come back with questions.
More than simply natural. Names, ages, how somebody greets you, the family-exclusive stories. A poet only needs about a fifth of it, but choosing which fifth is the task, and a poem written with a few adjectives takes that shape.
Yes, and the poet will tell you first whether the form suits the occasion. A villanelle’s repeating lines are better suited for grief than for a retirement toast and this is something that would be important to know before the draft arrives.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
I couldn’t write it myself and had to ask for help two days before. It came the next morning looking plain and quiet with none of the words I was dreading. My aunt asked who wrote it and I said.
Project it to fifty people in a barn with terrible acoustics. Short. One idea each. It reached the back. I’ve since learned this was done with intention and was not just a matter of luck.
The tribute was heartfelt, but came close to ten minutes when I delivered it (I was supposed to stick to six). I removed it a night before because there wasn’t time to edit. Undoubtedly, it was my fault for putting it off. The words, however, were just right.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
CopyleaksAI detection + plagiarism
Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
Send the brief, get a human draft back within 3 days. No account, no subscription, no AI.
$10 per 100 words · all of it to the writer · 0.5% to trees