What and why I picked this.

I chose a group of poetry. I picked it because it's the one type of writing I've been doing for a while. I used it a lot as a way to deal with problems going on with my life. It became a great coping mechanism for me. Most of it never got polished because I tended to not go back to it I simply wrote out whatever I was feeling and that was it. Most of it is fairly introspective too going through the whole teenage years. I've gotten out of the practice of writing much poetry because lately I haven't been dealing with the strong emotions.The particular pieces I actually just asked for someone else to look through them to help me decide.I keep all of it online somewhere so I just linked them in to explore it. I had them pick around eight to narrow it down for me. I talked about why they picked what. The first one I picked I entitled "Gone" and I chose it because it pretty much sums up the events that got me into writing in the first place. The next piece was Bits of thought. It describe some of the less serious stuff I've done that was pretty manic. I just get random ideas and put them together even if they might now make complete sense. The third one is "Fairy Tale" it kind of described my longing to return to childhood before everything got complicated. The fourth was entitled "Lost Her" I spent a lot of time trying to capture the emotions I had after my father died. Lost her though it is about a man losing a woman was just another attempt of trying to type out my desperation to not lose my father. The last piece is "House Cat" the only reason it is there is because I think my friend just liked cats. I wrote it to word my frustration with all the stuff I had to deal with at the time.