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That completely depends on the person, how long the poem is, and how many times you work on improving it through drafts. Poems can be very quick. I worked in a poetry booth for Valentine's Day once, and people would come and tell me who they wanted a poem for, what kind of poem they wanted in general, and then answer a few questions about the person, and I would write them poems right there, on the spot in one draft. It took maybe 2 minutes to 10 minutes depending on the poem... It was a lot of fun, and it went really fast. Now, I definitely wouldn't say that that was my best poetry... but it *was* probably my fastest. Then, normally, I spend most of a day on a first draft... and other poems I spend days or weeks writing, trying to get it perfect... and I only write shorter poetry. Some of the really long epic poetry, if it is written well, probably takes as long as a novel.

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