The phrase "budding poet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is new to writing poetry and shows potential or promise in their craft.
Example: "At the open mic night, I was impressed by the talent of the budding poet who shared her heartfelt verses."
Alternatives: "emerging poet" or "aspiring poet."
She described her son, a graduate who was a budding poet and planned to open his own barbershop, her "hero".
Reading in the half-light of evening, the budding poet is galvanised by Walcott's forceful image of the "blown canes".
There were letters from home and a piece of paper identifying one young recruit as a budding poet.
For I was a budding poet; I had filled entire notebooks with verses on teen-age longing and the attendant crushing boredom.
Mr. Roberts's introspective manner persuasively suggested both that this lad was a budding poet and that the ensemble's sometimes lyrical and sometimes turbulent movements symbolized his changing thoughts.
But we do know this was a friendship of an especially fertilizing sort for a budding poet: a bond fusing the warmth of natural boyish amity to the pleasures of shared literary observation.
Bernard Sauvet and Roman Morris, budding poets, are enrolled in a seminar taught by Miranda Sturgis, the school's "brightest star".
Inspiration may mean 'intake of breath' to medics like Professor Denning, but for Caroline Hawkridge and the budding poets at the NAC, it means something much more elusive.
The Croydon Business Improvement District, in Britain, has sponsored a literary competition as part of an anti-littering campaign, inviting budding poets to compose odes against chewing gum.
Perhaps before he assigns homework to his nation's budding poets, he should consider citing a band whose lyrics rise above the Arctic Monkeys': She'll be sayin' use me Show me the jacuzzi — Jenna Krajeski.
Perhaps before he assigns homework to his nation's budding poets, he should consider citing a band whose lyrics rise above the Arctic Monkeys': She'll be sayin' use me Show me the jacuzzi —Jenna Krajeski In the U.S., we're unlikely to read about Charles Simic on Page Six, but British gossips apparently take a healthy interest in poetry.
