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.
          

           Hello, my name is Matthew Mollette. I am 21 years of age, and this is my second term at Eastern Michigan University. I believe am still considered a Freshman. I plan on majoring in Music Therapy with a minor in Criminal Psychology, or I may decide to swap those later. Honestly, I am unsure of what I want to do with my life. My interests have always been in music. I play the Clarinet, recently taught myself to play the Piano, and have also recently began to take up singing; and I sing and play piano at my church. Unfortunately, the more I learn about music, the less I was to get involved with it. Give me one good reason there should ever be a double-sharp or a double-flat( for my other music majors). I have, however, been learning more about Psychology, Sociology, and Criminology, and I have found them all entirely fascinating. I am unsure as to what kind of career those could get me into, but I'll figure that out later.
            I took this class mostly because it fit well with my schedule, but also because I think that no matter what career path I choose, effective writing techniques may benefit me greatly. My other classes include Criminology and Sociology, and I have taken psych classes in the past. Outside of school I am involved in my church, where I play my music, and I help with our youth group activities. I got a job in Ann Arbor five months ago working at the American Eagle outlet, and I enjoy it....most days. I live with a relative of mine, though I try to support myself financially as best I can, though it is never easy. My goal for my future is to one day have a job that I enjoy, that pays decently, and that I actually want to wake up to. If you have any advice, please share! That's about all there is to getting to know me, thanks for reading!