writing poetry and high productivity

[Truerenigma]

I write poetry everyday, more or less. Although my productivity is high, the quality of my poems are less so. The problem is that my poems are short and I'm starting to think if I'm putting little effort in to it. What should I do: write longer poems and shape it more?

I do a bit of revising, as well as new starts, every day.

Try writing every day, but not necessarily writing a different poem every day, but bring a poem through stages in revisions. While you are working on a poem, do some further reading on its etymology, and explore related literature, history, and Art; painting, sculpting, architecture, etc.

add and take away, rewrite, erase, and go back to the original then rewrite again. Explore the idea in new poems that spring from the work, then come back to the original again.

After hundreds of revisions and thousands of hours of work over the course of several years, post the poem in Serious for workshopping.