That anxious feeling of being worried and overthinking
is the worst
The wind blows through my hair
While the red-feathered birds fly high in the clear blue sky.
My leather sweater keeps me safe from the breeze,
But my temper leads me to rage.
I feel confused by what’s in front of me,
But the birds chirping keeps me calm so suddenly.
My silver computer shines in my face
With all the tasks I hate
because it leads me to want to be out of this space of anxiety.
I tell myself to forget about it, but my heart tells me
to keep going.
The black ink on the white page keeps me confused
-Yet the lovely wind helps me go from blank to figuring it out.
The black ink on the white page keeps me confused but the lovely wind helps me go from blank to figuring it out.
The center of gravity in this piece is to explain how I feel when I have anxiety and I am worried about certain stuff. I wanted to explain how the environment helps me concentrate and relax on any frustration that I have, and how the sounds and the trees look with the wind blowing on them. What inspired me to write this was how I feel most of the time with all my homework and having to keep my grades on track, not wanting to slack off but suddenly I do and I see my grades lower a lot.
The literary techniques I used were imagination and music. I wrote it as a poem, but I tried to make it rhyme a little bit—I have to work on that. It also has a pattern for describing the sounds and the environment. In my poem, it says “ My leather sweater keeps me safe from the breeze, but my temper leads me to rage. I feel confused by what’s in front of me, but the birds chirping keep me calm so suddenly”. This relates to the idea of my writing because my writing is based on how nature and the environment help me calm down when I have anxiety and I am worried about my grades, it is used to describe the sounds and surroundings.
When it comes to mentor text I was looking at the ones we read in class nothing really inspired me there, but when we annotated “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus and I annotated “America” by Claude Mckay it kind of inspired me, and gave me ideas on how to write this poem. Some challenges that I faced were trying to put imagery and also putting concrete details in my piece. I overcame it by looking at “America” and also by looking at examples of using imagery. What I learned more was how to put imagery in my poem and also how to put music in it. I envision for the readers to see my point of view of how the environment helps me with my anxiety and also how it can relate to them, and to make it better I could put more into it and work on imagery, concrete details, and music.