~ Poetry ~ 5/7

We are currently working on poetry in creative writing right now. When I first heard we were going to stop working on short stories and start on poetry. I got nervous and kind of upset, because I hate poetry and I didn't know how to write a good poem. I never was good at writing poetry or songs. The only thing I could write and didn't mind writing was short stories, research papers, and essays. The first poem I have ever wrote was Thirteen Ways of Looking at Clothes. And that turned out better than I thought and it didn't take as long as I thought it would take to complete. While working on poetry I believe I have done much better than I thought when we first began. I also believe I have improved. Although, I do have much more to learn. I never brought any poetry or heard a lot of it. I don't have an favorite poet because I don't know that many and nothing that they have wrote. While working on poetry I have learned that there are many different kinds. Such as sonnets, haiku's, lyrics, epics, elegy's and more. My favorite poems are ones that rhyme. I don't really like non rhyming poems because it really don't catch my attention. I like poetry that I can understand and most of them I really can't. And those are the ones I really hate. That was one of the reasons I didn't like poetry when we first started on it.