Advice on understanding poetry better.

[Leanne]

it is as if I am thinking it instead of feeling it

Common mistake. For some reason poetry is often seen as something to be deciphered/decoded instead of something to enjoy. That enjoyment (or lack of) is a valid thing to comment on, so long as it's specific rather than just cut-and-paste type "I like this, good flow, nice image, blah blah next poem please".

We don't look at a painting and demand to know everything about the artist's intent. We enjoy it. We let its colours and textures seep into us. We take pleasure in its lines, its form, its image. Once we are immersed in it, then it may speak to us of deeper things, give us insights, allow us to view the world in a different way -- or we may just love it for itself. It is the same with music, sculpture, architecture... is poetry less of an art than these?