Make your characters more colorful in many ways.
Your character could have a colorful personality.
Say someone had a character with these traits:
Social - The character is very social, good with linguistic relations to other characters.
Add some more social values:
The character knows how to...
Vanara birds.
Vanara birds are the color black.
And these birds nest together, with two couples in the same nest.
Perhaps to space, not time, these birds stood the test.
Although the couples don't cheat, in love they do repeat.
You could choose a poem that you feel has creative value.
This poem could leave the reader with a swirly creative feeling when reading the poem.
Philosophical undertones can be important in poetry.
Make your poem with some hidden meaning, so that the reader has to ponder what he or she is reading.
When writing poetry, try to think of a poem to write that seems forgotten, or rarely written.
Choose some themes for the poem, such as love or hate.
Or make your poem without a theme, this can result in a beautiful yet silly poem.
Try to make your poem "Tease" the mind of the reader.
Write some...
Choose a theoretical animal to write about.
This animal could be a tropical animal such as a tropical bird.
Or a desert animal such as a desert owl.
Perhaps your animal could be a bug such as a pink firefly.