I Can't Impress Myself...

lol ok so that wasn't the best topic name, but that's what came to mind. Anyway, I am posting this to ask you guys if your work ever really impresses you, have you ever read one of your pieces, looked at it and say 'wow you're a genius! This is amazing!'...And then come back to the same poem later, and Still say that?
Personally, some of my poems I might finish and think, 'wow you're gettin better, nice job!' but I seem to come back later going 'My gawd, Stop Trying! You Suck!' lol. Well ok, I'm not That harsh on myself, I don't believe anyone should ever be that harsh to themselves - there's critiques for that. But point is, I just can't seem to impress myself. Nothing is quite good enough. Anyone else like this? Anyway of fixing it, or should I just not worry 'bout it?

I'm like that to an extent. I'll write a poem, then go back and edit it. Once I get this certain feeling, then I know it's finished. Often times though I don't get that feeling, so I put it aside and come back to it a couple of days later.
It's been alot harder lately to get to the feeling that the poem is as good as it's gonna get.

Well, for me, it's not really to impress myself or the readers (although I will be very thankful if they liked it) 'cause I mostly write to relieve some tension when I'm feeling low, etc. etc. But I guess I'm also impressed with my work in one way 'cause I feel better after writing/reading them words.

For me it goes both ways. Sometimes, I write a poem and am high on it when I write it, but the next time I look at it, the first time i officially give it a good once over, I discover that it could be tightened, cleaned up, that it has a few shortcomings, not that is bad but that is not quite yet up to the standard I've set for myself, and sometimes I write a poem just as an exersice or to explore and idea, not thinking the finished product is at my standard, but then after giving it a good once over, end up going this is "really" good, and being highly impressed with myself, but usually when the latter happens it a result of "glowing" comments, causing me to take a second look and thusly, to see the brilliance I hadn't seen before. Sometimes I, as I think we all do, don't realize how good my work is, until someone points it out, and at others, as I think we all also do, I project on a poem how good it could be after writing it and thusly, see it as that good, and then come back and read it later and see that is not as good as I thought, that it's not quite there yet, that's not saying it's bad, but simply saying, it needs more time and work to reach that stature at which it was being seen!!!

Thankyou all for leaving your comment, I am actually sort of glad to see that people are proud of their works, and that they acknowledge themselves for it to. And I thought I'd just say, that I too write to relieve tension and stress, I have alot of works that I am eitherhappy with, or just don't want people to see that aren't included on my list of posted poems - but even though I'm writing for my own release, I still wish I could just write something that I am truly proud of; however, I do know that I am my worst critic and that I usually do expect way to much of myself and of others, but it's the only way I'm going to reach my best. So I guess working at it is all I can do - so I'm off to write write write ...right now lol. Thanks again. :)

I'm proud of them, like i'm proud that its a positive way to relieve my emotions. I have 5 or 6 i really like, but most are random or very personal to me. But i love getting feedback on what i can improve.

I like some of my poetry, and some of the still impresses me, but not all of'm...

i write whatever comes to my mind, then after go back and edit. when i write a sad poem, i listen to sad music. it gets me in the mood. i hope i heleped.