So I actually took this class because I'm writing a book and one of my characters writes poetry, so I wanted to further develop my poetry skills in order to write for him. Here's a poem I created for the character, called Caged. 

Caged

Bones rattling against the bars

The air moves slow around my scars

A phantom caress

Shattering my skin

Teasing a life that won’t begin.

Then lo, a voice comes through the dark

It sings as sweetly as a lark

Of sunbeams burning

Through my chains

As if its light could end my pain.

If want could mend the break in me

Then lark’s sweet song might set me free

But wanting leads to wanting more

Than I’ve ever known before.

And so I wrap my shadows tight

To suffocate each hint of light 

I burn the want ‘fore it can start

And lock the cage around my heart.

But hope had got its claws in me

And risking all calamity 

I train my eyes upon the sun

And trembling, slide sweet lark the key.