A bit of a conversation with myself

[Achebe]

Importance about anything is always about frame of reference, so why wouldn't your poems be as important as one of byrons from your perspective.  There aren't many poems that were ever important, only interesting or thought provoking,  now they are mainly used to take up time, but not too much time, in some classroom where almost no one there wants to be, except for the fact it is required to graduate.

i'd forgot about that one

yeah limericks are great but not when everyone writes them wrong
did you or anyone here really, i mean really really try to make a living at poetry. again i think we have perhaps a handful who have some stuff i'd pay to read. does you're teaching help or hinder your writing. does anyone have a job that hinders they're writing, or a spouse that won't let you near a pen. i almost got a chap book done about 4 year ago but as i was putting the poems up for choice i realized they'd look better on the back of a bubble gum wrapper. i'm one of the most confident people i know and i do know how good/bad my poetry is. that said do we have to think or know how great we are in order to get published?  sorry for the bad grammar but that's just me being myself.

I don't write to get published so I don't worry if my poetry is sub par from that POV.  I would like to improve it nonetheless, because the act of writing poetry well gives pleasure.
When I was younger I wrote to impress girls until I realised that girls don't really fall for that kind of crap. By then it was too late, so I carried on until it became a sort of hobby.
I agree that after a point one repeats the same old things but surely the next thing to do is to attempt poetry on another language?