Poem Excersise Reflection

In English, our teacher, Mr. Schauble, made the class write a poem in three minutes. For this, I wrote the beginning of a simple poem I am still working on called 'Silence'. Then he made us write another poem from a different point of view. So if the first poem was happy, then the next poem was supposed to be dark and moody. So I made my next poem have an objective opinion since the first poem was a neutral voice. So I wrote this:

Graffitti:

Graffitti--
i think that it's my anti-drug.
the colors,
the smell of the fresh paint,
the pride i feel.
to buy your paints and
let everyone see into your artwork,
let everyone see your excitement,
your way of expressing yourself.
It shouldn't be against the law-
IT'S ART

A lot of my classmates liked the voice in which the speaker establishes his or her opinion. One of my classmates commented, "You wrote that? Wow. I thought that it was one of the guys." I guess that I really did step out of my normal writing voice.
Another one of the things my classmates did notice, was how the i's in the poem are lowercased. I did that because I think that maybe although that this graffitti artist is proud of his or her work, the graffitti is a way of making him or her feel big, unlike maybe what people from a different perspective have on him or her throughout a normal livelyhood.

What do you think?

A Starter Post

This is my first post. This kind of thing is sort of new to me, so I'd like to thank my second semester English teacher, Mr. Schauble, for helping me. For now, my posts will be mostly related to English class- reflections and so forth.

This should help me get better at writing and such. Like any typical sophomore, I want my writing to get better. So this'll be an electronic version of my commonplace book. I hope at least one of these posts will have some significance to one of you readers. If you have any comments, just post them and I'll take them into consideration.