Week One....A Poem To Me Is...

Poems have always stressed me out a little, especially when it comes to writing them. I'm always afraid that people won't understand what I'm trying to say, or think it's stupid. They always have been a part of me though. When I was little my favorite thing to do before I went to bed, was have my dad read from all of Shel Silversteins books. Eventually I got to the point where I could recite my two favorite poems while he read them to be. My absolute FAVORITE though, was the one where a man was in the jungle and no matter what happened to him he wouldn't die... like fall into a volcanoe, sand pit, all this crazy stuff. But in the end he was finally eaten up by a snake... for some reason it was hilarious to me. I suppose you could say that the only poems that I'm really interested in are poems that tell a story. But like I said, writing them is definitly not my strong suit. I like how in The Notebook they say that you don't have to actually write poetry, to be a poet...