Word Manipulation

Good morning cyberspacers.

This morning for class we were asked to go work out our creative minds at magneticpoetry.com. After attempting to do this for just one of the two poems we were supposed to create at almost the end of our class hour I suck at poetry when the words I'm using are more limited than the expanses of my vocabulary. You see from a very young age for me my family has been using words that, for the most part that I know of, are traditionally not used around three and four year olds. Now, I'm not entirely meaning that in a colorful expletives form of the idea, except for around my uncle that is considering his vocabulary can be rather colorful at times, I'm just saying that even at my age I have a vocabulary that does confuse some of my peers, I'm almost transitive between an adult community and that of my peers, I don't entirely fit in either, but I can certainly blend into conversation and hold my own there as well. But anyway, back on the topic of poetry.

I've discovered that if I'm given an idea or a concept to write about I lately write things that I end up rather pleased with, such as in the last quarter of classes I wrote three pieces that were actually really satisfying for me, including two of which were performed at our open mic, one of which was a dual voice, which felt really powerful for me. In the past I had discovered that I hated my poetry, I hardly ever kept anything, and the things that weren't kept I was shredding by hand. So at this point I'm rather pleased with the way I can manipulate my words; However, if it is a situation where I have a limited selection of words and cannot use words that are not included, I'm pretty much screwed.

So what about you cyberspacers, how do you feel about your poetry?