Wish I Could Write Great Poems Poem by Andy Caldwell

I have been reading others poems
most I read are just ho hum
sometimes I run across a good one
upon occasion I read a great few
then once in a blue moon or two
I run across a golden one
why can't they all be mine
I'd like to write like Whitman
or Charles Bukowski.......
He wrote poems so simply
I like to write something wonderful
as Light Denied by Milton
Edgar Allen put the Poe in poetry
I wish I could write an Annabel Lee
Instead I use what God gave me
and write about my stuff in life
about my dreams at night
and create poems of my insight
then constantly reread and rewrite
until I make each one right
I use every thing that I am
to make my poems the best I can