Does taking poetry in school ruin your poetry or save it?

Question

i notice anything i've written like that looks great when i do it at first. then if i type it up like 5 year's later it's a piece of ****. meanwhile something i just jot out in rage makes me so mad i wanna go crazy at first. then i look at it down the road and i'm like whoah i wish i still wrote like that

Answer 1

What I have done with poems from a few years ago, is takes good parts of all of them--and break them down into newer poems from a better prospective. Often when we first start writing poetry we are bound to a specific structure, try to be to "cute" with it or try to hard. Often the best poetry just flows from you, often in anger, sadness or being touched by someones Else's situation. It is the most real and that is why it is so good. It needs no structure--and not everyone can do it. Some just are born with the ability to flow like that. So that gift of yours in not gone and you will write like that again. Just do not force it and it will come back to you. Just keep on writing and something will just click and you will not be able to stop it