A key element to good romantic poetry all to often goes overlooked. What inspired the poem? Was is a new love you met, an old flame? Perhaps it was and important event or a special place you met someone that reminded you of a romantic night. Maybe and old movie you watched again for the millionth time that gave you inspiration. Whatever the source was, it is important... no vital, that you have it.
I can always tell when people have written poems because they wanted, or felt they had to, write a poem. I can also tell you that I have done it on many an occassion. These poems just seem to lack the va-va-voom... the spark that reads from truly inspired poem.
Whenever you write a poem, make sure you are writing for the right reason. Find inspiration wherever you can, in movies, books, songs. Take a walk somewhere where you know you have experienced feeling by being there before. Look at some old photographs or read some old letters. I guarantee you that if you feel some kind of twinge of memory or a flutter in your stomach from seeing a picture of an old or new flame... you will be inspired and you will write a better poem.
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