Poetry In My Life

Well, to be honest with you Mrs. Gilman, poetry and I have never been too great of friends. But since I must write something about it then I guess I will. Since I never read poetry, the only thing I remember that has to do with it was in 3rd grade at Pioneer Elementary. I recall that I was placed in this smart kid class because obviously i'm super duper smart :D. Anyways, one of the things we had to do in that class was write Haiku poetry. For some reason this kind of got attached to me (don't get me wrong, this was a one time thing), but I actually enjoyed writing it.

The rules were that it had to be 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again. The difficulty in this just kind of caught onto me. I would write about my pets, or my sports, or just about anything that ran through my head when I was writing. At one point I think I even wrote one about giraffes... I still believe I have that one in my house somewhere too.

My mom saved a lot of the poems I wrote but she says she can't find them. Thinking about it now, I think it would be interesting to go back and read some of the ones that I wrote. Thinking about it now i'm glad in a way that I wrote them and had interest in poetry back then because it obviously had a impact on me if I can remember details about it clearly from all the way back then.

When I hear the word "poetry" now I think of boringness. I'm less interested than I was back then and I find other better things to do. To me poetry is something that is just there, not something I necessarily care about.