Rain Bo

I'm sixteen, my poetry journal (technically) dates back to fifth grade, but there's only one from that era. All of my poems are from the point of view of someone else, the point of view of an extreme case.

So, to clarify, I have never cut myself, I'm not abused and never have been, and I'm not a vampire.

My topics are generic, but my poems are not. Or at least, I don't think so.

If you compliment me, and I don't respond, I'm not ungrateful, or anything, I just don't know what to say. My apologies.

It's recently occurred to me that I kind of hate some of the stuff I wrote. Patched, Valentine, Fire Alarm, and Letter To My Dad. And I have a sort of love-hate relationship with The Cancer and the sestina. Pull is growing on me, though.

I'm realizing more and more that none of these characters are really set in stone. They don't have names, they don't have faces...Hell, most of them don't have definite genders. I've never done it on purpose, but I guess, really, I'm leaving them open to interpretation. Which is cool, I guess. I picture most of them female. Except the baby in Lifeless, the whoever in Fire Alarm (it wasn't about me. Shocker. xD), and the dying person in The Cancer. I think the only ones that are /definitely/ whatever gender are the girls in Patched and Valentine. Wowzers.

I hate using 'I love you' in my writing. Like, if that's in any of my stuff, I instantly hate that thing. I think other people can pull it off. Just...not me.