writing poetry and high productivity

[Wjames]

You could try writing longer poems, and then cutting everything that doesn't work. I typically write shorter poems, and sometimes it can take me a week or two (or longer) to write a short poem (or less often, I'll write a poem I like all at once in like 5 minutes). I'll get an idea for a poem and write a stanza I like and then keep coming up with stuff to add on to it and throwing it out until I eventually hit upon something else I like. The length of a poem doesn't indicate how much effort was put into it.

I don't know how much you read, but reading a lot of poetry (or novels or anything really) and seeing what kinds of things work for you and what things don't is probably as useful or more useful to getting better at writing than just writing itself (in my opinion).