To love the world more then you love your self is the poets gift and curse sublime.
Few shall go, and then write it for all time.
Be always in the moment lest it never come again.
And see to it their legacy into the dark of night of oblivion dose not pass.
To those that wait and there is more profit in peace then hate.
Just a quick poem that came up to day, hope you like it.
My love will never taper.
Every time you walk pass.
Of what our future holds.
With love for you as its filling.
To really understand the craft you must be a part of it and not just an observer, use your love of poetry then look deep within you self and find your muse and let the music of the mind wash over you and write. As I pointed out in my poem all poets have a responsibility to what has gone before, poetry has rules such as line length, couplets and so on these things must be learned as they inform you as you write, these things must be learned so that you don't have to think about them but rather they are automatic when you come to use them.
If you chose to become a poet and become worthy of the name you will need to open your self up to a deeper level of feeling then most will experience in a life time, a word of warning however you may find that things that interested you before become meaningless and that some thing as simple as watching the evening news with all its depictions of mans inhumanity to man becomes distressing.
As you develop as a poet you will train your self to see beauty in every thing even that which seams not to be, you will begin to listen to the world around you in a new way that you did not before, take instrumental music (Classical, say) learn to listen to the music in such a fashion that the music its self seams to suggest words, maybe even entire poems to you get into the habit (This will take time) of writing and listening at the same moment, this will take time as you need to learn to quit you mind first so that it is free of the noise that often clutters it.
Another thing to try is to take several different pieces of music and for each one write a one line sentence on what your first impression of the music, don't think or try to analyze it even if seams random and strange just write it down, do this for each peace music you select; once you are finished take a look what you've written and just let the poet within you take over as in my poem dated 23rd November 1998 titled: In Tranquility's Eye.
Like strangers meeting for the first time at midnight.
-White horses in the surf at dawn.
-Shadows that induce tranquility by candle light.
-The light that guides you to my love.
Life is like a wineglass floating in a black void.
You guys sure are mushy and shtuff.
I can't think of anything to write or I would.