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So I'll admit that your question as written isn't entirely clear to me what you're trying to accomplish. What I do gather from it is you're interesting in how to use an array type in a ros message, where the example you want is a Pose. I can help with that. Though looking at your code you don't actually use the vector of Poses variable you create at the beginning. See sample below.

geometry_msgs::PoseArray my_poses;

// my_poses.poses is going to be your array of pose messages. In C++ its a vector.

// populate your messages, your example is 7
for (uint i = 0; i != 7; i++) {
  geometry_msgs::Pose curr_pose;
  curr_pose.position.x = 42.0;
  my_poses.poses.push_back(curr_pose);
}

so as you can see, its just a vector object your working with where the vector starts with size 0, so you have to either push_back new elements or reserve/resize with your known number of elements.

So I'll admit that your question as written isn't entirely clear to me what you're trying to accomplish. What I do gather from it is you're interesting in how to use an array type in a ros message, where the example you want is a Pose. I can help with that. Though looking at your code you don't actually use the vector of Poses variable you create at the beginning. See sample below.

geometry_msgs::PoseArray my_poses;

// my_poses.poses is going to be your array of pose messages. In C++ its a vector.

// populate your messages, your example is 7
for (uint i = 0; i != 7; i++) {
  geometry_msgs::Pose curr_pose;
  curr_pose.position.x = 42.0;
  my_poses.poses.push_back(curr_pose);
}

so as you can see, its just a vector object your working with where the vector starts with size 0, so you have to either push_back new elements or reserve/resize with your known number of elements.

std_msgs/Header header
  uint32 seq
  time stamp
  string frame_id
geometry_msgs/Pose[] poses
  geometry_msgs/Point position
    float64 x
    float64 y
    float64 z
  geometry_msgs/Quaternion orientation
    float64 x
    float64 y
    float64 z
    float64 w