How I started liking poems (Two books did it)

Originally handwritten on 20.08.2025 I've never been a poetry person. At school it felt too cheesy or complicated. That changed when when a friend said, "Don't analyse. Just feel it. Let it create images in your mind". That one line changed the way I approached poems. I was curious about Frank O'Hara after seeing Meditations in an Emergency in Mad Men , but I actually started with Mary Oliver's…