My experience writing my poem...

Let me just start out by saying writing poetry is a bit harder than I first thought it would be. When we had to write our own poems in class with the ABA, BCB, CDC rhyming scheme, I must say it was quite a challenge. However I started writing my own poem at home for my collection, and let me share my thoughts on it. I wrote a post earlier about poetry being a reflection of the writer, and I must say it does hold true. I will add to this view though, when I say that poetry is a reflection of the writer, most people might assume that the reflection is going to be in the time of the writer writing the poem. Let me clarify that, lets say person A writes a poem, person B reads it. Now, person B might come to some conclusions about what the reflection of person A is, however it does not mean it was a reflection of person A at the time that person A wrote the poem, perhaps it is a reflection of person A's core beliefs, and the persons dislikes and likes in life. For example my poem is about space travel, now one might come to the conclusion that space travel is great, and that I support the idea of space travel, however if you take a step back from dissecting the poem and look at the poem as a whole you might come to the conclusion that although I like the idea of space travel, I also like the realms of science and mathematics. So when you read a poem, perhaps take a step back and think about what the writer likes and dislikes. Anyways my second major point concerning poetry is that you as a writer will find yourself continuously going back and changing your lines, and how you structure and phrase your poem. I certainly did, and I am still looking back thinking about how to make my poem sound better. So my second takeaway is don't be discouraged because at first your poem does not sound "good enough", you'll just have to keep going back and fixing stuff up, every great writer in the world had to, and I am no "great writer" in history, so just imagine how many times I'm going to have to go back and edit lines and stanzas... Just some things to think about when reading, and writing poems.