How to Become a Successful Poet

So you want to be a poet
Alliteration. Rhyme. Haiku. Limerick.
Do you know what any of these terms mean? If not, then you, my friend, are poetically challenged. And no, you're not alone; it's a common complaint.
What on earth, you ask, does poetically challenged mean? Don't bother looking in the dictionary for it, it's a term I made up. It means someone who has trouble creating poetry.
Amateur poetry, of course, usually consists only of rhymes, while the poems created by professionals are quite literally works of art. …