Writing poetry is reliving pieces of lives you have chosen at various focused times. From John Ciardi's HOW DOES A POEM MEAN?: "Any good work of art is beautiful and, in one sense, beauty is mysterious to us in that it can move us more deeply than we know how to say. All deeply felt states of being, moreover, involve ambiguities. But if our sense of beauty is mysterious to us, there is not much that is mysterious about the techniques a good artist uses to create that sense of beauty." Write and explore. Keep a record, expressing experiences and ideas. A line or two about the forest where you...