#4 - poetry

I haven't been feeling particularly thankful today (because ugggg my iPod got stolen out of my locker at school yesterday) but I'm posting anyway. Be pumped :]

I think most of you guys know that I write a lot of poetry, and if you didn't, now you do, hmm? To me, it's thee most amazing form of expression there is. When I don't understand something, I start writing about it to organize my thoughts. When I have one of those prayer blocks in my head, I read psalms. I can say more with twenty lines than I could say if I talked for an hour, and a lot of times I get even more out of alliteration and metaphor than I would out of great advice (not that anyone's advice sucks, just exampling :]). It got me out of my terrible mood this afternoon, I read some, I wrote some, it didn't really matter, but it worked. Music has so many connotations- certain songs or bands for certain people, events, emotions- and I'm the only person I know who's cool enough to have anything to do with free verses. I think I can be more honest in poems than I can be in anything I say, even in prayer; a lot of time poems become unconcious prayers. I'd like to think it's a gift, more than likely it's just a habit, but it's helped me out many a time :]

Sorry that wasn't very exciting, but it's all I could come up with right now. I'm still a little angry with the world...