The first sonnet I ever wrote

A sonnet's not an easy thing to write.
It twists and turns each time you think it caught.
Just try it once and see if I'm not right,
That everything you write turns out pure rot.

Some poets seem to have an easy time,
Like Spenser, Shelley, Shakespeare, Keats, et. al.
Their sonnets have a beauty in their rhyme,
This sonnet should be on a bathroom wall.

But they spent many hours at their craft,
Until their words, like music, flowed along.
The finished work is never the first draft;
The writing process can be rather long.

So now I know I have much work to do,
And many lines to write before I'm through.