Blog Update

           This week I have chosen to blog about the poem I have written for my poetry assignment. Whilst reading our poetry packet, I tried to focus on the feelings that I could best identify with. In reading the poems, I felt happy, silly, sad, joyous, ruminative, surprised, contemplative, confused, and also hungry. I am usually always hungry. Since it is the winter time, I decided sadness was how I felt most connected to the reading. The reason for this is that during the winter for the last few years I have been losing family members, right around the October-November time-frame. First, a friend from high school passed, then my grandmother, then two of my uncles. I wanted to tap into those emotions to create my first poem. I had to do so using a selected 20 words from a list that we created in groups in class.
            When I wrote this poem I didn't use any rhyming, because in reading most of the poems in our packet, I noticed they didn't rhyme and still they came out beautifully. In my poem, I described what it feels like when you lose someone you feel close to. There is a sense of weightlessness, as if you've lost the connection to them. I wrote about how you see shades of black because that is a color of mourning. Next I wrote about how nothing seems real. It feels like a bad dream, a vivid one at that, and you wish to wake up, but you don't. Lastly, I wrote about how time is the healer of all things, and it, too, will heal the wounds left by loss.
            The grieving process is different for everyone and being able to put those feelings down on paper was very therapeutic for me. In addition to that, I enjoyed starting up poetry again, as I do very much like to write poems, but have not done so in quite a while. The assignment gave me a challenge, to put the words from the list in my work, and that helped me to think outside the box, and ultimately helped my writing tremendously. I look forward to writing more poems and sharing how I came up with them, what emotions I put into them, and why. Thank you for reading.