I don’t think you can get a poem “wrong.” And so once I put it out into the world, I let it go. It’s a type of freedom really. CP: How do you decide how much of yourself to show in a poem?

You can stick to a single line or make it an extended metaphor with an entire poem about that bridge. Use imagery, or visually descriptive language, to help tell the story.

Okay, you say, but other people have already written about those things. Yes, but only you can describe them in your unique way. That is your voice, and no one owns it but you.

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That might be as much poetry as you require, but if you find it’s not enough, there’s a lot more where it came from. There is, first of all, a lot more Edna St. Vincent Millay.