Writing poetry doesn't require any fence or an advanced lexicon. It doesn't require you to know how to spell or grammar. The greatest requirement is consistency, at the end of the day that's what makes you strong at whatever you want. This can be exemplified by phrase such as:
"practice makes perfect"
Vince Lombardi
" It takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills and materials"
Malcom Gladwell
I think you should remember this when you get started because this is the key to begin your journey as an artist. Using this to build a strong habit of consistently writing. However, as many books of writings will tell you that when you begin to do something just as habit with no change the quality will detract.
They key to reaching mastery is the editing, as you shall learn by reading many books about writing by writers is the editing stages. This process of editing is more challenging, because the flow state required to just write can be simpler. Recreating that in editing can be harder because you can be interrupted by reading. Therefore, for poems I recommend spending a couple of extra minutes reviewing and editing after writing.
If you're in a rush and you have an idea, write down the idea and the concept so next time you have that same feeling, you can use it to build off of. After a while you will begin to connect to a flow of understanding and translating into your own words. The poem below took me less the 10 minutes to write, I was inspired after reading "the book of the way" by Lou Tzu.
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