Day by Day I was running out of ideas for poetry because I usually don’t write more than 2 poems. I based this poem off of the idea that I’ve had in my head for a while. I felt that as the days go by, I feel like nothing eventful or interesting ever happens. I wake up, go to school, eat, come back home, finish my homework and then sleep and wait for the next cycle to happen. Not that I suddenly want to become smart and cure cancer or have something bad happen to me that I’ll never forget but rather something that makes me look forward to days? Everyday I do things for the sake of it and not really because I want to do it but because it’s more of a routine. Rather than my fond memories of a child where going to school and learning new things was a joy, they’re replaced with memories of a daily routine that I follow. That was the thinking of this poem. This poem is more about how uneventful I feel days are, as I keep growing older. I wrote this poem with a simile to start and continued it on with a sort of rhyme. It fits my theme because it has a sort of hopeless feel to it. Originally I wrote another poem, which didn’t fit my theme (What I Find Joy In), so I had to re-write this and the last poem to fit my theme. I wrote a draft for the first poem that I wrote (not on theme) and I wrote another draft for the final poem. Throughout my poem, in general I tried to find better fitting words and not let any sentences stand out. If they were too long I’d shorten it and vice versa for short sentences. This poem made me pretty fed up because I had to rewrite drafts so many times and come up with an interesting way to express my idea. For the art I took a simplistic style, which I think is simple and appealing. Being inspired by Ame, an artist that I look up to, Ame does simple sketches, which are very rarely coloured, but looks appealing which I like. Being influenced by her, I tried to draw simple art for this poem.
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