Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35817505-20181129015306/@comment-9041013-20181129184436

well, taking the meaning of the story or poem and making it your own... that works, and is allowed, I speak from experience. This however, it feels like she made a "creepy" version of Humpty Dumpty, it's not exactly creepy, it's just odd and not exactly original (since people make up a humpty dumpty sort of nursery all the time).

If anything, just write a creepy poem, can't think of a deep meaning? go for a fictional story in the form of a poem. There are songs like this that gained a lot of following.