Writing Poetry

I haven't had much experience with writing poetry. I actually took a class in high school as an elective that was called Poetry/Advanced Creative Writing. However, I took the class mainly for the creative writing aspect. I was quite upset when even after we were done with the poetry portion of the course we were still doing poetry. In fact, I have never really been the biggest fan of writing my own poetry although I think its awesome that some people can write poetry. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I am very self conscious about my writing. It also does not help that my poetry always ends up sounding like a five year old wrote it. Although I sometimes feel like I have a great idea for a poem, I often have trouble actually making it into a poem.