How to improve your bad poetry. Apart from burning it!
If you are writing in form I suggest thinking of the lines as being like music with the same number of beats in each line.
Nowadays free vs much more commonly used and you don’t have the same problems there but you do have to have a feel for the musicality of what you write unlike the person who wrote the following verses
When you read them you will realize that it’s not worth writing anything unless it has some meaning and value to you and other people or it is genuine humour which these lines do not achieve
He took his girlfriend to the ( bleak and) sandy shore
He pushed her into that deep sea, and now she is no more
He had no money for to pay the bill
Left himself a million pounds in his own will
He has been married once and that was good
Mainly because his wife was made of wood
So they had no children as they could not mate
I think he’s left just everything too late
Never go to beaches with strange men
They push you in the sea if you ask when.
It’s better to be a single and be safe
Than marry some man just to be a wife
But when the right man comes you’ll get the feel
You’ll be happy with love unconcealed
How my heart sings 