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My poems are quite journal-y in nature (I call myself a diaristic writer) but I think you can avoid a collection feeling like a journal by ensuring that the poems stand alone, aren't a run on from each other if that makes sense? A lot of singers write about their personal lives, but because their album is a series of snapshots, it doesn't feel like you are reading their diary. You can write a collection of poems about love, for example, but not detail every moment in a relationship. Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes is a great collection that is deeply personal, but doesn't feel like a journal.
what is the difference anyway?
As far as explanation,they're probably writing poetry to document what they went through.In otherwards,they're writing poetry as a form of therapy and can be for most people.
I don't know if it can be avoided,just by using techniques,as poetic devices are part of the poem themself.
One may be able to write poems without technique,free verse,but I always prefer structure,as this provides rhythm to follow.
If one really wants to avoid poetic techniques,to sound like journal,metaphors,and similes both immediately come to mind.
There could be others I'm unaware of,so whether they want to sound like journal or not,really comes down to poet.
I don't read many modern collection of poems, but my predisposition says a book has a unifying theme that binds the poems together. A journal is just one poem after another.