Dreamcatcher+Reflection

The assignment for this piece was to find an object of importance or meaning to you, and to write about it. It somehow got stuck in my mind, to write about a dream catcher. Both my sister and I have dream catchers, however I lost mine. So I had to go into my sister's room and lay on her bed, looking up at her dream catcher to write this poem. While I was there, I got these two different feelings about the dream catcher. One was the obvious run down quality it was in, how old it had become, and the other was the image of how I knew it used to look, when we had first gotten them. That's why I wrote the two different poems. However I found that when I joined the two together, it made the piece stronger.

I actually had a really hard time writing this piece. I had to go through many self-editing, and peer-editing of my work and I'm still not completely satisfied, but it has come a long way. Organization was a huge issue for me because I wasn't sure how to write the piece, and how to fit the two poems together. Every time I tried to fit them together, it sounded weird, or it didn't feel right. I spent a long time finding the right words to put into this poem. Some words didn't seem to describe what I was trying to say well enough so I would have to keep searching for the right one. This piece was definitely one of the harder ones for me to write, but I'm proud of it.