Describing with clarity is one of the most important things a poet can do with their writing.
Get some paper or preferred writing material and begin writing, just what ever comes into your head for 5 minutes. If you struggle with this sort of exercise then just start by describing the room you are in.
Now go through what you have written. It will be a mess.
Start out seeing if there is any sort of structure there already, if so build on it. If not see if it at least in a coherant order. Reorder and rewrite until you have something that has structure.
Now see what happens if you remove as many words as you can.
Keep all the re-arranges you have done.
Another thing to do is to take out all the thes and ands and so on.
None of these will drafts is likely to be a poem in itself but if you merge some of them together, taking the lines you like from each then you may get something you like.
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