What I believe about poetry

I still feel that most poetry is a sob story told by people who crave attention.  However, rap, metal, and rock music have lyrics that are poetry set to music, and I love music.  Something about reading it makes it seems like a sob story.  But thats not fair to most poetry.  Most poets write about issues that I can relate to, or stop to consider new perspectives that I would never have contimplated.  I think I dislike poetry because I have a hard time writing it.  I have so many thoughts that could become good poetry (if there is such a thing) if i could find a way to write down the words that express how i really feel  Mostly I struggle with word choice and structure.  Those are to two things about poetry that I notice when i read it, because I'm looking for a style that I could try and use and eventually make my own.

How to say nothing in 500 words

I really enjoyed reading parts of this article, but the exaggeration of the horrific padding was intolerable. I sympathize with the teachers who have to read fluff and extended sentences just to make a deadline. I have been taught to fill my essays with more information than needed, and cut back the excess, like the author described. I think my last teacher has read this article because this lesson is exactly what I’ve learned. I don’t believe in writing just to see my thoughts on paper, I have to have meat behind my writing.

Shitty First Draft Response

I loved reading Anne Lamott's Shitty First Drafts, from Bird by Bird.  It had a delightful sence of humor to it, especailly the bit about loosing subscribers due to comparing brians to foods. In my freshman english class in high school, my teacher would have us write about anything we could think of on our topic for 5 minutes.  It could go off topic, and even be "this is an utter waste of my time, I hate writing" or "my hand is really starting to hurt."  It didn't matter to her as long as we were writing the whole time.  Then we would go thought, like the author does, and circle anything that we could use, and write a draft from the brainflow.