Hello, I'm James Buick and i and trying to write poetry and i feel it is awful. How do I improve?

Hello! I would say the biggest piece of advise is to stop worrying about it. Thinking it is awful will make the writing more difficult as you will be worrying about the quality of it constantly rather than the actual poetry. Instead, just write what you feel and try to enjoy it. Its worth remembering that everything you write yourself you will view differently to what someone else has written because you will always be more critical of yourself, its just natural. I know people who think they...