Hello children of the planet earth as well as numerous other planets that according to the string theory and my dad, exist with people with the same DNA makeup as us.
Today I'll be discussing how I wrote my poem for english classe.
I don't know about the rest of the classes poem, but my poem was pretty much based on my life. I wrote my first draft of the poem probably one or two months ago. I started out knowing exactly how I wanted my poem to be. I wanted it to be about a girl who is asocial, like myself (because the poem is like I said, based on my life.). She basically hides behind the computer screen and lives her life on the internet instead of with her real-life friends.
After conferencing with my english teacher, we decided that I needed a more finite moment or event in my poem. In this edit of the poem something about it seemed really off to me. I didn't like how the poem was turning out.
I conferenced with him a second time when we got our graded draft back. I wasn't happy with my poem, and I wanted to figure out how I could change it and get the poem back on the track where I wanted it.
As we were talking, we realized that "the character" liked the fact that she was able to control everything on the internet, whereas in real life, her friends are unpredictable and hard to control.
I wrote the final draft blindly. I wrote what came to my mind, it was a completely different poem. Pretty risky considering it's an important part of my grade :/ For some reason, I thought that band-aid would make a good metaphor for how the main character was feeling when her friends found out about her internet life. Thus came the name of the title.
I think I learned a lot about myself while I was writing this poem. 1. I'm an anti-social 2.I need to be in control 3. I would rather be at home then out of my house 4. Sometimes I like my computer more than I like my friends.
To be honest, these things kind of scare me. :( I think I've done a lot of soul searching this year, a lot of which is documented on this blog. I think I like that, but sometimes it makes me frustrated because I never do anything to change myself.
Anyways, back to my poem.
I feel like writing this poem was a lot more enjoyable than I thought. I found a topic I wanted to write about, and the words just flowed from my fingers. I wasn't expecting to like writing my own poem, but I really enjoyed it, I think because I connected soooo heavily with the main character. I think I'll try my hand at poetry again sometime :)
Check out this poetry blog! I love her stuff :) -> http://letting-this-all-go.tumblr.com/
