Today, you had the opportunity to express yourself through poetry. Reflect on your creative writing process. What did you find most enjoyable or challenging about turning your thoughts into a poem? Did this assignment change the way you think about poetry or creative writing? Explain your experience.

The most enjoyable part was describing how peaceful the mountains feel compared to the loud city. The hardest part was finding rhyming words that still made sense and sounded natural. I changed several lines because they did not sound how I wanted them to. This assignment showed me that poetry takes more thought than just making words rhyme. The words also need to show a feeling or message.

Today in class I was absent.

I enjoyed describing the peaceful mountains, but finding words that rhymed and made sense was challenging. This assignment helped me see how poetry can express feelings through writing.

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