tranquil crater
Haha! I love the honesty 🙂
Slight word of advice, have you heard of "Show, don't tell"? Maybe you could write it in a way that shows why you feel poetry is hard, or why you feel a disconnection to it. Either way for a first poem the concept is nice 😃
For example, heres a haiku I wrote in July that has a similar theme:
I pour my soul out
Onto canvas, anything!
Still flesh, I remain.
gleaming totem
The wall is white
My mind is too
Ideas hide
They always do
I blink.
It blinks back.
Still, nothing new.
tranquil crater
See, I feel like a good rule of thumb would be to try and avoid directly saying what something does or is.
For example, if you said "The wall is paintless" or "walls colored bone/bare"
Not trying to discourage you! Just giving a little advice 🙂
gleaming totem
I understand, and I appreciate your advice
Like it needs more uh
Thought from the reader
tranquil crater
Yeah! When the reader has to think a little bit, consider what you're saying, it becomes more interesting. Theres probably way better advice written about this concept, I would google "Show don't tell", it's probably the number one writing advice people give in general