For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Follow your own weird.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.