The Elusive Poached Egg

As stated in the title, I tend to struggle with poached eggs.  I struggle with all eggs honestly, and I thought that poaching an egg would be the method to master; it's healthy, no frying, and you basically dunk an egg in hot water right?  No. Wrong.  As evidenced by the photo, I continue to be an egg padowan.  Instead of plump, round, perfectly poached eggs, I get white wispy witch eggs.  My next attempt resulted in a watery, black, burned egg.  I didn't know it was even possible to burn an egg in water so I apparently cleared that up.  Still ate em though.  I shall follow these sad eggs up with my next attempt, when I brush my ego off and decide to give it another go.  For now, tofu sounds good to me.