Writing long poems

i find writing long poems i go off track a little bit, but i have found that if i write a long poemthen read through it helps but then some of it doesnt make sense does anyone know what i could do to keep me on track?

Poems are made up of peoples feeling thougts you can be talking about love and then talking about food lol... try to combine them you can make one good poem. With poetry you have to experiement with then ...no poems are bad...they are how you feel

i don't realize length until after i write

I usually change my ideas at least twice in every poems I write, accidentally. I think different ideas and going off course keeps poetry interesting.

I guess you could give yourself a limit befor you start.

Length is never an issus for me i tend to always write short ones but not always a good thing

Hehehe i had the exact same problem, i ended up splitting my long poems into three different poems lol. how about writing it in short stanzas to begin with and after each remind yourself of what it is you are writing about? then if it still makes sense join it together to make one sensible poem? xxx