Choose a leitmotif. Both the Arabic and Hebrew poetry style in Andalusia use metaphors in poems to represent broad concepts. For example, many historical poets use an apple as a metaphor for love. Choose an everyday object to represent your larger concept. Consider using a fruit or animal, as both have common usage in Andalusian poetry. Muhyyiddin Ibn Arabi writes about the beauty of a young woman: "He who looks upon her deems her to be a gazelle of the sand-hills, because of her shapely, neck and the loveliness of her gestures."
Use an ornate style to write. The poetry of Andalusia is infused with romance, historical folklore and exaggerated expressions of daily life. Ornate style encompasses sentence arrangement and choice of words. Use less descriptive adjectives and more imagery. Choose words that evoke an emotional response in the reader.
Arrange your poem. Traditional Andalusian poetry is often written in blank verse. Blank verse is unrhymed verse, a term most often used to categorize English poetry. Although the term blank verse did not come into use until the late 16th century and much of Andalusian poetry was produced in the 13th century, it is still the best term to describe the form. Blank verse offers a modicum of freedom to a writer as it does not require rhyming lines. Poems are arranged in long form blank verse or short form. The short form is usually only four lines. Even with the short form, certain freedoms are allowed. For example, one word sometimes accounts for one line of poetry.