Background story, muse work

Making a poem out of muse work is harder than I thought. I honestly thought that it would be easy to just make my story into a poem but it's a little bit harder. I have to use adjectives, metaphors, and other forms of poetry to make a great poem. My poem "Blue Birds" was a poem about my relationship with my friend. I thought it would be easy to just describe ourselves as birds because we are similiar in so many ways and we are kind of animalistic. However, we are not like tigers or elephants; we're like birds because we are peaceful when we are together. We complement each other in so many ways that we are able to glide over the Earth and look at our life and situation in a different way. I and he can only be together when we are in the air. Our relationship can't really be known, just as two birds who fly together and are both sapphire colored. For me to describe that in a poetic form is a little bit harder than I expected. I am used to rhyming so much that I was writing my muse work in rhymes as if i was writing a poem. This is something I need to change, because I am not fully interacting with my muse like I should. Hopefully, I am able to use the critiques in class to better perfect my poem without losing my own sense of writing in the poem.