Poetry has been on my mind a lot lately, so I might as well talk about it for a spell. Poetry has been around for so long, and it has changed it's appearance so much. I used to fancy myself a poet. It was another creative writing outlet I could plug into. I used poetry to express my thoughts and feelings, just like any average person. Yeah, I wrote those angsty teen poems so typical of teens. But I also liked to try to be artistic and thoughtful. My favorite subject is/was nature, just because there is so much inspiration to be drawn from the beautiful earth we live on.

But then I got some discouraging feed back for some poems, even though the person giving it never meant it to be that way. I realized I just wasn't the next Tennyson or Billy Collins (Heh, not sorry there). I guess I totally ceased to try. And it seems to me that many people are so focused on the technicalities of poetry that they squash what I think is the main point of it. As I said earlier, poetry is used to express oneself. Like a canvas painted with words. But people destroy that. Just because I am not some poet whiz who knows all the ins and outs of what is considered good poetry. I just wrote what I felt like. Isn't that one of the main points? Why do we all have to make it so much more complicated and so less an expression? I use it to glorify God and express my thoughts about Him and what He does. But if I wrote a poem for the purpose of tweaking it and making it sound so conformed and uniform, I don't see the point.

Ugh. I wish people could read a poem and just let the ideas and words from the heart be what they see. Not the ways it could be improved or the technical things they missed. I think I will keep writing poetry, but not show it to anyone else unless in certain instances. I just don't understand people who take the passion out of poems and put the tedious into them instead. Yes, I will continue to write it. I will fill paper with the breathings of my heart :)

[/end pointless rant nobody will read]

We are all (the all including Mar, Elraen my mother and I) getting ready to go on our trip to Colorado ^_^ Funness. Washing clothes, making lists, organizing things. Well, we ladies are doing such. Mar is not, and probably will not. I am agonizing over what to wear during the long car trip of epic doom.
And I still want to go see Indiana Jones or Speed Racer before we leave. It is very sad that I probably won't be able to see either.
My friends were over for a sleep over last night, which was very fun. We played Dutch Blitz until they told us to get to bed at about 2am. Party spoilers. But we got to play it the next morning, we it's good. After we leave this next Thursday, I won't get to see one of my friends for seven weeks, which is sad and frightening.
I am writing a summer novel this month, which should be interesting to try and work around the trip and all. But Simon got fixed! So now I can write on him, so I should be prepared. Simon is happy to be more normal like other lap tops ;) such a faithful little computer; not to mention cute!

Well, that's all that has been occupying my mind. Yup. Kind of a one track right now. So I leave you here, as I go chugging down the tracks of insanity.

I took some pictures today. I decided to post them. Pretty awesome, eh?

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Just thought that I'd post these and do a few random anime smillies ^.^

Having fun listening to an internet radio. Right now it's playing "Do Not Move" by David Crowder Band <_>

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