As I look back at the poems I have so far, the biggest themes I can draw from 3-4 of them is adolescence and family. Most of my poems talk about conversations or experiences I’ve had with my family. Outside of this collection, my other work bounces across topics of love, anger, and rejection. I feel that two of my poems, “Seasons and Reasons” and “Marked”, are most connected in subject and idea. In different ways they both show me, as the author, reflecting on aspects of my childhood. Where one goes a more negative route, the other is a positive uplift. I particularly want to expand on the idea I created within “Seasons and Reasons”. Framed from some adolescent romantic advice my dad gave me, I chose to connect such to my now adult love life. Going further in the process I would like to see if I could make other poems about advice I’ve received. Then write poems that reflect on the advice itself and how such advice applies to my life now. I could continue with this theme by only choosing advice from family, but spoke to various parts of life. Or, go the opposite way and focus only on romantic or love advice.
Journal #6
