Tiny

[Todd]

Hi Fathima, welcome to the site! Comments below:

This is the first poem I have ever written. I don't read much poetry. Nor do I know much about it. But I wrote this poem a couple of days ago, and then wrote a couple more. I would like to know if it is any good, if it even makes sense, if it conveyed the message I tried to portray, how I can improve it, etc. Thank you.

--The best way to begin writing better poetry without exception is to begin reading poetry. If you want to write reading will stretch your work and give you examples of technique that will only help you. The poem you've written has some nice moments, it makes sense, the content comes across.

Tiny

Still a little angel,--I like short poems. In that vein, you can cut this line. The language and interplay tells us we're dealing with a child or someone childlike. It borders on cliche, and isn't a strong opening line.
She gazed at the night filled with sparkles.--watch these narrative pronouns...too much story and not enough. Poem. Sparkles is excellent. It gives us a child's wonder. She gazed at feels like unnecessary reportage just focus on what she's seeing don't feel the need to have the lead in. "The night filled with sparkles would be better." Finding a more figurative or simply childlike way to say night might be better still. Perhaps "The dark filled with sparkles"
'How tiny! ' she expressed.--again keep away from these prosey dialogue tags like she expressed
They told her they were 'stars'--This line establishes the her, the analytical adults who have no wonder left in them. This eliminates the need for the dialogue tags entirely in my opinion. Only issue the line is too flat. They told her just reports. What can you add to make the line pop? What did their voices sound like maybe (i.e., in voices of mothballs and dry toast, they told her...) how can you make it come more alive? It needs something here.
But she only understood their tininess.--this repetition is unnecessary and steals force from your last line. I'd cut it.
A massive balloon of gas, they explained it!--again kill the tags, simply "massive balloons of gas". Balloons because they are explaining plural stars.
She laughed and thought, 'What tiny people.'--in this case she laughed is fine. The "and thought" is too static. I also think you want to cut people and have a little ambiguity. The adults will think she means the stars. She'll actually mean them. The ambiguity will make the ending stronger in my opinion.

Those were just my initial thoughts. I hope some of it is helpful.

Best,

Todd