writing poetry is so flipping hard

[billy]

hi lorretta, many of us have little formal education as afr as poetry is concerned.
we can write how we want to write. we can rhyme or not rhyme. i wouldn't overly worry about the meter, just attend to it as it rears it's ugly beautiful head. same with other things. just try not dismiss feedback out of hand, in time you'll come to see that a lot of sense has been said. don't confuse poetic license with bad writing it's an easy thing for those new to poetry to do. (i used to do it a lot) and remember while we can use all the poetic license we wish, the reader is allowed to tell us if they think it works or not, should many of them say it does, or doesn't it worth thinking about

Hi Billy: It is much harder than I thought it would be; calm the inner beast; not for me; I can't tell you how many days that wolf was in my head no matter what else I had to do. As ellajam, I am completely uneducated in writing. Yes, Billy, I like to rhyme; I have intense love of music and the rhyme gives me a rhythm, it's like a different language; making words sing. The rules; meter, dactyls, all that stuff confusing for us new ones, and for me, if it doesn't sound right; the rules don't mean much. Talking about the wolf; I tried to make all the changes that would make it a real poem, I thought I made those changes, mostly, but for sound, and reading I like the original better; for sound; even though I understand the criticism; and that is another dilemma; must we be right to be poetic; or do we have some license here. Good question billy. Loretta