Hi all! I found AbsoluteWrite by just googling for writing forums. I majored in English/Creative Writing, took classes in both Fiction and Non-Fiction. I haven't written much since then... Although I have done some editing on the novella I wrote for my final project back then, I might post it for feedback sometime in the future. But recently, I've been focusing on poetry, which... Well, I feel confident about things like themes and metaphors. In fact, one of the main reasons I've gotten into writing poetry is that I've discovered a lot of musical artists within the past six months or so who've gotten me really excited in that regard. My favorite band is the Oh Hellos, and the lyrics on their EPs Notos and Eurus, good grief, are they amazing! The themes are so complex and heavy, and the extended metaphors! The individual songs are great on their own, but they also build on each other, expanding and recontextualizing... I'm all about that stuff. Honestly, I feel like what I've been writing is good in that regard, I'm achieving what I want to achieve (though of course constructive criticism is welcome); what I really need help with is stuff like meter, which I honestly don't know much about. I did write one poem in Fibonacci's sequence (you know: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.. the golden ratio), and I'm happy with that. I think I have good instincts, but... To be honest, one reason I waited so long to start writing this stuff down is, people say that you should have a good grasp of free verse before you start trying free-form. But then I started thinking, I really do like my ideas, and it'd be a shame to let them go to waste. So, better to write it down and work on it later.