Monday, April 24, 2017
Farewell Friends
I had a great year with everybody in this class and I feel like I got to know everybody more than I have in any of my previous college courses. I think that the poetry really brought out some feelings and emotions and this allowed for us to really engage in some meaningful conversations and express ourselves in a way that most classes don't create. I hope that everybody has a great summer and keep writing poems, I have come to the conclusion that they are a great way for students and young adults to deal with stress and helps express feelings and emotions that the writer may not even know are there.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Journal 7
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
I always enjoy poetry foundation to find poems because of how organized it is. I liked poetry out loud because you are able to listen to poems and and performances.
One poem i really liked was call Death Is Something Entirely Else by Joy Katz
Death Is Something Entirely Else
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
I always enjoy poetry foundation to find poems because of how organized it is. I liked poetry out loud because you are able to listen to poems and and performances.
One poem i really liked was call Death Is Something Entirely Else by Joy Katz
Death Is Something Entirely Else
Department of Trance
Department of Dream of Levitation
Department of White Fathom
Department of Winding
Sometimes my son orders me lie down
I like when he orders me lie down close your eyes
Department of Paper Laid Gentry
Department of Sound of Sheets of Paper
he covers me with
then sings
I like best the smallest sounds he makes then
Department of This Won’t Sting
Am I slipping away
Department of Violet Static
as if he were a distant station
Department of Satellite
My child says you sleep
Department of Infinitely Flexible Web
and covers my face with blankness
Department of Tap-Tapping the Vein
Department of Eyelash
I can’t speak
or even blink
or the page laid over my face will fall
Department of Clear Tape in Whorls and Double Helixes on the Wall
He says Mama don’t look
Department of You Won’t Feel a Thing
I cannot behold
Department of Pinprick
He will not behold
Department of Veils and Chimes
of Lungs Afloat in Ether
I like this best
Department of Spider Vein
when I am most like dead
and being with him then, Department of Notes
Struck from Thin Glasses Successively at Random
I must explain to my child that sleep
is not the same as dead
Department of Borderlessness
so that he may not be afraid of
Department of Fingertips Lightly on Eyelids
so I can lie and listen
not holding not carrying not working
Department of Becalmed faint sound of him
I am gone
His song is the door back to the room
I am composed of the notes
The two websites are very different. They are both well organized but poetry out loud has videos and recordings that poetry foundation does not have.
Journal 7: Amanda Gifford
http://www.poetryoutloud.org
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
These really enjoyed these two websites from the list of sites. The set up of Poetry Foundation was nice with being able to view by poem, author or category. I spent a lot of time shifting through random poems and then reading about the poet of the poem. Poetry Out Loud was easy to go through and had a variety of options. Hearing the poem and seeing the expression on the face of the reader really enhances the experience. It was interesting to watch a poem being signed it was really powerful.
I really liked the simplicity of the poem in tackling a subject such as death. In comparing something beautiful and light to a heavier topic of the beyond.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
These really enjoyed these two websites from the list of sites. The set up of Poetry Foundation was nice with being able to view by poem, author or category. I spent a lot of time shifting through random poems and then reading about the poet of the poem. Poetry Out Loud was easy to go through and had a variety of options. Hearing the poem and seeing the expression on the face of the reader really enhances the experience. It was interesting to watch a poem being signed it was really powerful.
The
Cherry Trees
By Edward
Thomas
The cherry
trees bend over and are shedding
On the old
road where all that passed are dead,
Their
petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding
This early
May morn when there is none to wed.
I really liked the simplicity of the poem in tackling a subject such as death. In comparing something beautiful and light to a heavier topic of the beyond.
Journal Seven from Dathan
The two places that I look through the most were...
The Poetry Foundation
and
Web del sol
I liked The Poetry Foundation better. It was mostly because of the set up of the sites themselves. The Poetry Foundation seemed to have a better arrangement of things and Web del sol seemed to at least look cheaper, less user friendly, like it had more adds. They both had a good catalog of poems, you can really get lost.
I chose this poem because when I read it I saw a nice image in my head. It was like I was in a canoe on a slow flowing river surrounded by trees. It does sound a little stupid when I put it that way, but if it sounds completely stupid to you then you have never gone canoeing.
The Poetry Foundation
and
Web del sol
I liked The Poetry Foundation better. It was mostly because of the set up of the sites themselves. The Poetry Foundation seemed to have a better arrangement of things and Web del sol seemed to at least look cheaper, less user friendly, like it had more adds. They both had a good catalog of poems, you can really get lost.
How Quiet
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How quiet is the spruce,
the wind twills
through the uppermost tier
of splayed leaves.
Now the song of a bird
like the squeaky lock
over a canoe's oar,
followed by startling chirps,
the sky pushing its clouds
like sailboats,
and I think, what kind of God
keeps himself secret
so that to find him out
we have to seek, as children do
for something like the beetle
scuttling between grass,
hidden in plain sight.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Journal 7- Aziz Hamid
My two favorite websites that I really enjoyed are:
www.poetryoutloud.org
www.poetryfoundation.org
I already knew about the poverty foundation website before this activity. I used this website when I was working on my presentation on Lucille Clifton. Poetry foundation has 27 poems by Clifton. In addition to the poems the website offer articles, audio & podcasts, video and biography on Clifton. The website is nicely organized and easy to work with.
The Poetry Out Loud website has fewer poems but is a great website to watch people recite poems from memory. I was amazed on how well some of the people memorized poems. I was very nervous reciting my poem in front of a small group, I can't imagine reciting it in front of a larger audience. Poetry Out Loud is a great website for someone like me who get nervous talking let alone reciting a poem in front a group of people. This website can help improve your public speaking skills and most importantly build self-confidence. The website is also colorful and pleasing to browse through.
I would give both of these website 5 stars because they are great websites that offer different features depending on your needs.
My favorite poem I found on poetry foundation :
Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Rosen Journal 7
JOURNAL 7: The Final Journal
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/37525
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/92730
The two websites that I enjoyed, aka poetryoutloud and poetryfoundation, were very similar but different in certain ways. For Poetryoutloud there seems to be a lot less poems on this website because when going to the "Z" section of poems there literally were only two poems listed where I'm sure that there are many more poems begining with a Z in this world so it just felt a bit limmited. Poetryoutloud had more detailed biographies of poets which I really enjoyed because it was nice to be able to go straight to their bio's to learn about them more. I would give Poetryoutloud 3 stars out of 5 because they have a lot of great features and include a lot of good poems but I think that I'm left wanting more poems from the website.
Poetryfoundation was the other website that I looked into and I thought that it balances pretty even with poetryoutloud due to a couple reasons. I think that poetryfoundation was a lot more organized and professional looking than poetryoutloud because the web design is very clean cut and well put together whereas the poetryoutloud seemed thrown together in some sections. Another thing that poetryfoundation does well is that they have a large selection of poetry in this website and exponentially more poems than poetryoutloud which made it seem like I could choose from a large selection which was nice to have the options. But something I didn't like about the website was that the bios were a bit harder to reach and it seemed sort of careless of the poet themselves. I thought that the website overall was very well done and easy to use. I'd give this website a 3/5 stars as well because I think that the pros and cons of each site balances to be at the same place.
The poem I enjoyed off of this poetry search:
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/poems/detail/37525
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/92730
The two websites that I enjoyed, aka poetryoutloud and poetryfoundation, were very similar but different in certain ways. For Poetryoutloud there seems to be a lot less poems on this website because when going to the "Z" section of poems there literally were only two poems listed where I'm sure that there are many more poems begining with a Z in this world so it just felt a bit limmited. Poetryoutloud had more detailed biographies of poets which I really enjoyed because it was nice to be able to go straight to their bio's to learn about them more. I would give Poetryoutloud 3 stars out of 5 because they have a lot of great features and include a lot of good poems but I think that I'm left wanting more poems from the website.
Poetryfoundation was the other website that I looked into and I thought that it balances pretty even with poetryoutloud due to a couple reasons. I think that poetryfoundation was a lot more organized and professional looking than poetryoutloud because the web design is very clean cut and well put together whereas the poetryoutloud seemed thrown together in some sections. Another thing that poetryfoundation does well is that they have a large selection of poetry in this website and exponentially more poems than poetryoutloud which made it seem like I could choose from a large selection which was nice to have the options. But something I didn't like about the website was that the bios were a bit harder to reach and it seemed sort of careless of the poet themselves. I thought that the website overall was very well done and easy to use. I'd give this website a 3/5 stars as well because I think that the pros and cons of each site balances to be at the same place.
The poem I enjoyed off of this poetry search:
Onions
By William Matthews
How easily happiness begins by
dicing onions. A lump of sweet butter
slithers and swirls across the floor
of the sauté pan, especially if its
errant path crosses a tiny slick
of olive oil. Then a tumble of onions.
This could mean soup or risotto
or chutney (from the Sanskrit
chatni, to lick). Slowly the onions
go limp and then nacreous
and then what cookbooks call clear,
though if they were eyes you could see
clearly the cataracts in them.
It’s true it can make you weep
to peel them, to unfurl and to tease
from the taut ball first the brittle,
caramel-colored and decrepit
papery outside layer, the least
recent the reticent onion
wrapped around its growing body,
for there’s nothing to an onion
but skin, and it’s true you can go on
weeping as you go on in, through
the moist middle skins, the sweetest
and thickest, and you can go on
in to the core, to the bud-like,
acrid, fibrous skins densely
clustered there, stalky and in-
complete, and these are the most
pungent, like the nuggets of nightmare
and rage and murmury animal
comfort that infant humans secrete.
This is the best domestic perfume.
You sit down to eat with a rumor
of onions still on your twice-washed
hands and lift to your mouth a hint
of a story about loam and usual
endurance. It’s there when you clean up
and rinse the wine glasses and make
a joke, and you leave the minutest
whiff of it on the light switch,
later, when you climb the stairs.
dicing onions. A lump of sweet butter
slithers and swirls across the floor
of the sauté pan, especially if its
errant path crosses a tiny slick
of olive oil. Then a tumble of onions.
This could mean soup or risotto
or chutney (from the Sanskrit
chatni, to lick). Slowly the onions
go limp and then nacreous
and then what cookbooks call clear,
though if they were eyes you could see
clearly the cataracts in them.
It’s true it can make you weep
to peel them, to unfurl and to tease
from the taut ball first the brittle,
caramel-colored and decrepit
papery outside layer, the least
recent the reticent onion
wrapped around its growing body,
for there’s nothing to an onion
but skin, and it’s true you can go on
weeping as you go on in, through
the moist middle skins, the sweetest
and thickest, and you can go on
in to the core, to the bud-like,
acrid, fibrous skins densely
clustered there, stalky and in-
complete, and these are the most
pungent, like the nuggets of nightmare
and rage and murmury animal
comfort that infant humans secrete.
This is the best domestic perfume.
You sit down to eat with a rumor
of onions still on your twice-washed
hands and lift to your mouth a hint
of a story about loam and usual
endurance. It’s there when you clean up
and rinse the wine glasses and make
a joke, and you leave the minutest
whiff of it on the light switch,
later, when you climb the stairs.
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PS: Thank you for such an enjoyable class, I will miss all of you.
Journal 7 from Jake
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
The websites that I explored seem to really have a lot of poems from people that are interested in posting their poems for the public to read. I had a lot more trouble finding poetry that I enjoyed from the poetry foundation because there seemed to be a larger selection. I enjoyed how you could narrow your search based on the theme and titles.This helped me read the poetry that I enjoy instead of taking hours to scan through material I would not enjoy. Both websites allowed for the user to limit their search but I believe the poetry foundation was more efficient in the process. I would give the Poetry Outloud website a 3/5 and the Poetry Foundation a 4/5 because of the ease of use and total access to tons of information. I think they could improve by adding a 'most popular' or 'best rated' section to really entice their users to enjoy what others enjoy, this could cause a snowball effect and soon BAM! a poem or poet could become famous!
Cloud Fishing
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To fish from a cloud in the sky
You must find a comfortable spot,
Spend a day looking down
Patiently, clear-sighted.
Peer at your ceiling:
Where a light dangles, hook & line
Could be slipping through.
Under the hull of a boat
A fish will see things this way,
Looking up while swimming by —
A wavering pole’s refraction
Catching its eye.
What will you catch?
With what sort of bait?
Take care or you’ll catch yourself,
A fish might say,
As inescapable skeins of shadow
Scatter a net
Over the face of the deep.
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