So we are pretty far into the semester and we've had plenty of experience so far in reading poems from the book and on Angel, as well as writing Muse poems.  I don't know about anyone else, but I still feel like I am not getting the hang of any of it yet.  I mean, I knew before taking this class I wasn't a poet, it's just not my forte.  But I took this class because I was curious and I wanted to appreciate it more.  A lot of people have been posting poems they've been working on lately, but I'm too embarrassed to even read them to myself that I have no confidence when workshop time comes around.  I rarely understand what we're reading in the book, and I have so much of a work load, being a graduating senior and in two other 400 level writing classes, that I don't have the time to keep rereading all the poems.  I read them twice, but I know twice is not enough.  Then comes the Muse work, and I feel so constricted doing the exercises in the book because I feel I'm stuck writing a form I don't want to write in, and most of my work is straight up crap.  I don't know if we have to use our Muse poems for workshop, but I hope not.  I also hope I get the hang of this before then, because I'm so worried about it.  Does anyone else feel this way?  Maybe I'm not trying hard enough to get it?  I don't know what to think.  All I hope is that I don't embarrass myself too much when everyone else reads my work, because I feel like I have nothing good to say.  I don't know.  Maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but those are just my thoughts.