does anyone else???

does anyone else feel that your poems are good when they are first finished but later on you feel they aren't that great and you don't really want anyone to read them? lol I'm sorry i just wanna know if i'm they only one?!?!

Yep, i've been thinking about that for the longest time...just today i went down the list of my poems and i was both disgusted and impressed with myself. Disgusted at how elementary my first poems seemed, but impressed with how much i've improved. Lately, i've been practicing different forms of poetry and they've really excersized (sp?) my ability and skills to write poetry.

I'm so proud of myself. :)

//Ari\\

I too have that problem...I haven't been writing poetry for that long (six months or so), and so I develope very quickly...

I often dislike my poems after one month or even ,less...

So...

you are not alone=)

Yea, I feel that way a lot. I remember when I first started writing, I always thought what I wrote was really good. But when I look back, I think they really weren't that good as to what I thought they were. So you aren't alone. And I know there's probably quite a few people who share that same problem.

Oh, you are definitely not alone, I have deleted a lot of mine, and of course I saved them. I figure someday, I might want to go back and edit them. A writer, no matter how long you have been writing, will always have room to grow. Don’t let it get you down, saving poems and looking back on them, can give you confidence, it allows you see just how far you have come. I have so many that I look at and say “what was I thinking” but I see so many things I would have done differently. Use them as learning tool it can really be helpful.

I thought I was the only one who had that problem. I feel that way about many of my poems as well.

yea i feel that way all the time but its really because as you write more you improve as a writer so the way you look at a piece of writing develops and you find what you wrote before not as good because at your current status you can do better. its all part of growing as a writer lol

Happens all the time, after writing I go back and look at them and say "Boy, this really stinks" but never mind. Writing is a release for me to lose some of the pressure that is built up within.

Steve

with your hands? lol im sorry, what do you mean by that?

THANK YOU, everyone for your imput i have always wondered that but never really wanted to ask lol but i have two poems called why and never please read and comment (i dont really care if you vote, thats not a concern) i just would like anyone to feel welcome to give me tips to improve! thanks bunches

$Br&e$

Yeah, some of my earlier poems are quite embarassing, but as you all say, look back and see the improvements and growth you've made, feel proud!

heh.. when i read all the poems I have written when i first started out.. its a little embarressing but atleast i know i've improved and am trying my best.

As I look back my first poems really sucked , alot of times I just tried to make them rhyme but now I try to write them as they unfold in my head . I try to put more creativity and uniqueness into them . Let the words flow and see where they go

Its all about improvement! You realise your faults after you've written a poem, but at the same time, just after you written it, you feel pride because this is an improvement on your last poem, and so you're last poem then doesn't seem very good.

Sorry probably doesn't make any sense :P

I'm the same as JHarrison. When I write a poem, I usually dislike it, then I look back on it and think, "hey, that's not that bad..."

Hmmm I don't share the majority of my poetry for that exact reason

haha i always do. but i dont take them off. i just try harder to make them better

It looks like there are loads of people who think just the same way you do - and that includes me. I never really thought I had any kind of ability to write poetry until a certain person entered my life and, hey, all of a sudden poetry started spouting out of me. But, like you, I look back at them and think "What a load of rubbish". I have to say, though, that it depends on the sentiment. If it was written straight from the heart (which most of mine are) then the memory of the event usually causes me appreciate the poem even though it might not win a litterary prize, and I realise that someone else might not find it so good because they have not had my personal experience. There are rare occasions when I will look back on a poem I have written and think to myself "wow, that was good, did I write that??" but that doesn't happen very often. Don't know if I'm making any sense.

I don't think any of my poetry is any good when I write them. But that doesn't stop me from writing or putting them in view of the public. because when I write, I write from the heart and I don't care about structure or form or anything that makes good poetry. I don't write to be good. I write because not writing is like not breathing. and breathing is a common thing, so I don't really expect anything for it. When I get something for it though, it's the best feeling in the world. I am eternally grateful & I pay it back threefold.

but when publishing, I know that the work is not about me. and no matter what, someone is going to love it. hold it up as a part of their world. They're reacting to the writing. Not me. the fact that people can attach meaning to something utterly meaningless elates me. It's awesome when I can be a part of that. even when I don't get the credit. so, no, I can't say I can relate much at all. Sorry to break the continuity.

Indeed, I do not think my poetry is very good, but I simply write to satisfy my desirous soul. As all of you say, writing is very gratifying, and I love getting feedback, and commentaries, so that I can improve, or if all the feedback is positive, then I feel I may have accomplished something in my life.

haha me and my friend where just talking about that today actually. we where reading thru our old poems and they seem so bad.

wow, I know how that is

Normally I will like my poem some when I 1st write it... and then after a few times reading it over and everything... I hate it, Can't stand it lol so yeah.

I Feel That Way All Of The Time! I Look At My Old Poems From The Past, And I Think To Myself "What The He** Was I Thinking?!",....But Then Again What Seems Bad To You May Be Beautiful In Others Eyes *Shrugs* xoxo-Nikki-xoxo

My opinion on my poetry usually depends on the reason for which I write it. If I am writing on emotion, without much thought and meditation, then I usually dislike it later on. However, if I have thought about my strategy and the psychology behind my poem before (or as) I write, then I generally am much more impressed with the outcome.

Not everything one writes will be brilliant, poetic genius, but the ability to recongnize the less than perfect pieces is what separates those who show true talent and marked improvement in their abilities and those who don't!!! To be a great artist, no matter what your art (craft) be, is to have centian standards of quality for your work, your art. It is to ever work to meet and surpass said standard!!! Look to ever improve on whatever shortcomings you may have, as far as your poetry is concerned and focus on getting better, improving, and not that fact that you have a few shortcomings!!!

i feel the same way.. i wrote a wonderful poem the other day and at the moment it seems i mean great then when i read it again i was thinking to myself... you what the heck was i even trying to say... i dont know how that happens...but i cant seem to get over it... can anyone help me?