Poetic Personal Statement

​I think that poetry is a form of literature.  Poetry is a way of expressing what you feel through metaphors, using patterns in a rhythmic way.  Most of the time people use poetry as a way to express what they feel or to teach a lesson to their viewers.  In order to be poetic, you have to get all of your emotions out and express your feelings in an imaginative and creative way.  To me poems can be really personal at some points.  Sometimes poems can be personal because they share one of their personal experiences.  People also can relate to that experience if they share that experience and then they start to take the poem personally.  And that's what I think poetry is. In my opinion, poetry is very special and there should be more of it in the world.  The way to start that trend is by teaching and reading poetry to kids so that they grow up and use poetry.

Now, in the very first project in this G.T class we are making a poetic personal statement.  I will give you a little taste of my poem:
My fears are no match for what I can attain,
I know what I have to gain,
Courage, and determination,
To believe, to be brave,
The road is now being paved,
Find what is left in me,
And now I see,
Just achieve!

So, that was my poem:) Anyways when I was creating my poem I knew that I wanted it to rhyme.   I wanted it to rhyme because, when poems rhyme it flows better and when you just spout out a bunch of thoughts, it doesn't really flow as well.  Also, I used rhythm in my poem because it makes it flow, and transition more smoothly.   When you use rhythm and rhyme it makes the poem not just sound like a bunch of jumbled words even though that might be what it is.  So that's all about my first G.T project of the year 2016-17!  be sure to stay tuned because I have lots more to come!