Heya,

I'm no expert myself lol.  Only started writing poetry because of the Coffee Girl script.  But I can give you a few pointers.

I don't know how many share my style of writing... but I don't try capturing thoughts down on paper. Instead, I try to capture motions and emotions.  Music has a way of moving people.... so I try to capture the essence of a poem's rhythm.

Edward Allen Poe does this. Look up "The Raven".  

Also... Study the poem meters. Shakespeare specialized in Iambic Pentameters where every second syllable is stressed.  Example: "i HEAR thy WIND, thy WIND has CALLED for THEE. and SYMbols SHINE deSIGNS to SET me FREE." 

Another pointer... study a bit of Linguistics: Phonetics (The sounding of words) and Semantics (the impact of a word's meaning).  Sometimes too many T's make things sound choppy while many S words make things sound slippery.  Just speak out your poems and feel its rhythm and you'll know what I mean.  Feel out the rhythm, dude.