Unfamiliar Texts: Poetry

What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry?
What is one specific example (evidence from the text)?

1. How To Eat a Poem by Eve Merriam (page1)
This poem suggests that we shouldn't be afraid of writing anything. Be honest and just give in. Writing poems is a matter of confidence and letting it out in the world, writing your opinions and feelings out, ready to be vulnerable. everyone is about to read the piece. With the last stanza of her poem about nothing to throw away means that there is no right or wrong with writing poems.

The author wrote this very simple idea (that there's no right or wrong with poetry) in a very humorous way—wordplay, using pun and wit—which makes the reader stop, think and comprehend the piece word by word. I also think that the use of repetition, listing, and short sentence length on the last stanza was to give the reader time and pause to sink the words in their head.

For there is no core (means that there are no rules with writing poems)
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away

2. Eating Poetry by Mark Strand (page 2)
This poem is written with the author's imagination, a fiction-like poem, an imaginative poem. The author used his imagination with real-world aspects. However, this poem suggests that even though some people don't understand our poems, we should just keep writing and writing new ones. Especially if it's our passion it will definitely give us a different kind of joy that anyone can't steal from us.

Ink runs from the corner of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.

3. Unfolding Bud by Naoshi Koriyama (page 3)
This poem suggests that writing poems (or even any kind of text) do not have to be perfect and spot on with your first try. We get better by practising every day, and it takes time.  The poem used a metaphor about us being water-lily buds. That every time we write new poems we take it into the next level, in short, as we get used to it. We make ourselves more vulnerable to the world of poetry.

One is amazed
By a water-lily bud
Unfolding
With each passing day
Taking on a richer colour
And new dimensions

Yet one is surprised
To see the poem
Gradually unfolding,
Revealing its richer inner self
As one reads it
Again
And over again

Choose one poem and create a collage which represents it visually.

Unfolding Bud