An old friend of mine informed me that she loved reading my blog so even if she's the only person regularly checking it, I'm gonna write here more often.
I have been journaling almost daily since Eli and I have taken our "break". It's reminded me so much of why I love to write. I love expressing myself through it, especially poetry. I know I won't just let people read my journal, but by writing it down and getting it out of my head, it seems like I'm making myself more vulnerable. By the way, being vulnerable sucks. Or at least it feels sucky.
In my poetry class yesterday we had a discussion on what it means for an author to write confessional poetry. An example of confessional poetry is "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. If you have never read it, do it, it's so emotional and fabulous. Apparently, many look down on the term "confessional" poetry because it's said that it's typically female writers/poets who do it and it's an easy way out of writing because it's just writing an emotional poem (probably means using a bunch of abstract words instead of using concrete imagery and metaphor). I would like to know what author ISN'T a confessional writer at some point in his/her career as a writer. Who doesn't put some of themselves in their art? A douche. No, just kidding...but seriously...especially published poets; how does someone not put some sort of real emotion into their poetry? I find it almost impossible to write something that I don't feel something towards whether its anger, happiness, ambiguity, apathy, frustration, joy, confusion, etc.
This is all the time I have right now but hope this was enjoyable after my long break from writing on here.
xo
