My thoughts My expressions My poetry...

Sometimes telling someone how you feel isn't enough. Poetry is all about expression and emotion, and the life of being a teenager is definitely filled with emotion. Poetry is a powerful output to express the way you feel, and gives you the ability to influence others just by writing a few words. The reason for the cover that I created was to express the powerful emotion found in poetry, especially that which is found in a teenager's writing. Reading last year's poetry was surprising for me. I didn't realize the varying emotions that were so present in the students of this school, especially the most common which seems to be poems dealing with sadness. In other words "teen angst", which is the main reason for the almost depressing colour choices. Although I have two main images on my page, the subdued effect on the limp rose brings out the main focus of the page, the fairy. I chose a picture not showing any expression on the face to show how much body language can affect how you believe people feel, yet there is no way to prove how someone is feeling. This is the reason I chose the particular picture of this fairy. No one can prove how she is feeling, she may have a smile on her face but it is hidden by her arms. Teenagers do this all the time, they hide their real emotions by acting happy yet they may be very sad, but writing poetry can let them show how they truly feel through words, because sometimes it's just too challenging to show how you feel towards others. Hopefully, in some way, teenagers can understand that if they truly showed how they feel, they will see that it's okay to be themselves and express themselves towards other people.