Serious question.

[tectak]

So when I began writing, I was really proud of some of the work. One year later, I shook my head in disgrace and thought: Seriously, wtf?

I've been writing poetry for three years now. Here's a problem I constantly encounter: It ends up sounding cheesy. This dawned on me (again) after reading an insightful critique on a recent post. This critique was a lot more helpful than I thought a critique could be. Pretty blunt.

My serious question is probably easy to answer, but in the midst of writing, how do you know what you're writing is a piece of... I don't know, cheese? Why am I so eager to jump on trite, cliche subject-matter?

To avoid writing cheese read/crit my stuff. There's Livarot and Dairylea....
Best,
tectak