The article reveals the manifestations of the basic meanings of ποιέω in the creative process of Kočo Racin. In the course of the analysis of poems from the poetic collection “White Dawns”, links with Macedonian folk poetry are revealed; drafts, versions of poems and their final edition are compared. Racin՚s poetry is also explored in the context of genre transformations of lyric forms. The author correlates his reasoning with the conclusions that were made in the studies of Blazhe Konesky, Alexander Spasov, Gana Todorovsky, Dimitar Mitrev, dedicated to the work of Kočo Racin.