My first poem this week was a sonnet.

I usually do free style poems but decided to do a sonnet about my deceased grandfather. My second poem was about lost souls and what they do/ what their lives are as souls. My third poem was about a Crazy person who could hear voices that really told the future. he voices poem was the most interesting to write because I used my knowledge from shows that involved crazy people and their reactions. I connected with the most since it came from my grandfather. !rey wispy hair as I mentioned before is about my grandfather who had "lzheimer#s. $e never remembered my name even though we lived with him for about two years and whenever you would try to tell him something he didn#t remember he would often accuse you of lying to him. My mom was really devastated about it so the poem so I also wrote it for her. %o I#m not really sure what you look for in a sonnet. I used the rhyme scheme "&"&/C'C'/()()/!!. he sonnet itself was fairly narrative and I figured it was self e*planatory of what was going on. +ost %ouls kind of came to me as an idea from a movie with a carnavel. %o the whole time I was writing it I had a carnival as the setting with spirits/ghost intermingling with the living, I wasn#t actually sure how to incorporate the carnival without -ust saying that it was at a carnival so I left it to where the setting wasn#t the main focus of the poem. I touched a little bit about how the spirits could be wondering for thousands of years. I also mentioned how they can be forgotten by their loved ones. I also added to why the souls were on the earth to begin with. hat the 'arkness suffocated the light and the souls were lost. I also added how the spirits are damned to a life of restrictions. I made the souls a shadow of what they used to be to show that they were not real people or at least not who they used to be. hat they are now tortured souls stuck in an endless sea of oblivion. o support how the souls could not enter another body and no he sonnet was the one

longer truly lived, they simply e*isted in this frozen time space .which would have been the carnival if I had kept it that way/ I showed that to e*press the unhappiness of the souls. I also made it to where the souls were forced to be on the earth, so that the reader knew that they were not there by choice. he 0oices is my favorite poem this week. I was very interested in how I was going to e*press my idea for this poem. I kind of wanted there to be some irony. I knew immediately after the narrator got rid of her voices that I wanted her predictions to be real. I#m not actually sure what inspired this poem. I simply started with the noises. I wanted to show loud, ear bursting noises that grind on some ones nerves as well as them being unignorable. I actually had planned on it to be a physcotic poem where the voices wanted the narrator to kill people. hen the story became about the voices that were unignorable and the narrators struggles to overcome the voices. 1ne of the problems that I came across while writing this poem was showing that the narrator#s predictions were coming true. I wanted the poem to flow, and yet somehow needed to show that the narrator wasn#t really crazy. I#m not actually real sure how that ended up so that is something you can refer to me about. My favorite part in the poem was the end where she was finally admitted into an insane asylum. here she was doped up on meds and practically loopey from her pills. &ut the medicine was strong enough to overcome the voices .predictions/ and the narrator was finally given peace.