Some blogs to check out

Here are some interesting poetry blogs you guys should check out when you have the time.

http://www.poetryoflife.com/
http://www.sbpoet.net/
http://www.poets.org/
http://ninaalvarez.net/
http://www.robertpeake.com/poems

My favorite blog in this list is from Robert Peake. I really liked one of his poem called "Pawn". Already from the get-go I understand that he's describing a simple chess game as a real war zone which pits soldiers and knights against one another. And how the pawn is always most likely to move first, and if need be the one to be sacrifice without much of a worry from the player. The way he read the poem was really good! It was calm, entertaining and amusing. The pauses were nice and at certain part of the poem he would tweak his voice a little bit to give it some emphasis such as "most unlucky lump", which depicts the poor pawn's fate in an average board game or even a real war setting.

LISTEN TO THISSS

Please give them a shot and listen to them, sharing them from Francis's blog.

They're great, I swear. c:

http://pechnotoetry.blogspot.ca/2013/10/poems-from-tumblr.html?showComment=1386479683885#c8180738969560461457

Poetry App

Recently me and my two other colleague took a small visit to the Seneca Library to rent out the Ipad tablet. We tried a few of the poetry apps and here was my take on it.

Verse Poetry
In this app I have the option to create a poem using words already listed for me. One of my friends thought if would be interesting if we all make a poem using words already available. I thought it was good idea and the results were very neat! We all created something that were very similar and yet they were completely not the same. It kind of shows how differently we think and create poems.
Here was my poem:

The sunny place fallen
Hoping your sorrows has change
These eyes decidedly watching the commotion
Grinning

Migration
This next app was quite fascination. My first impression of the little animation was that it resembles a parasite of some sort. At first I was confuse as to what the poetry app was about until I tapped the blob and saw some words coming out of it. These random words I thought were supposedly a poem.

Too much river and too much of me

Visual Poetry
For this app, it uses the poem you've written and make it into a nice typography. It contains many style and you also have the option to change the colour of the text as well as the text style. I think the purpose of this app was to make your poem visually appealing and interesting.

Rattlesnake
As for this app, it displays a plain mossy green background. It seems mundane at first until you start to tap or drag your finger around the screen. As you do that, it will then display words, or if you've swiped your finger around the screen, a short poem.

Know
Know was very similar to Rattlesnake, small snippet of poems/words would pop up if you tap the screen. The only difference was that there would be these white texts cluttered together-shaking-, and if you tap on it, some of the texts would be clearer while bearing the colour purple. It was quite creepy to be honest. The only thing I remembered from the app was that it keep displaying a sentence stating: my skin is turning purple -or something similar to that.

Reciting a poem

I recited a poem by E.E. Cummings called "Little Tree"

I had to record this multiple times.
After awhile my throat started to feel dry and saliva kept filling my mouth as I kept talking...
When I finally got it and read through it decently, I quickly found myself listening to my own voice afterwards.
And boy did I sound dumb.

Please note that I made a few mistake when pronouncing some words.

poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176724
me blabbering: http://snd.sc/1hGHtyT

Yes I chose a Christmas poem.

And down the ship she goes

All the old symtoms by Arlo Quint

http://www.bostonreview.net/poets-sampler-arlo-quint

The poem makes me think about a pirate ship. "Our ladies of Sorrow" sounds like the ship's name. The crew is caught up in a storm, a mutiny is taking place, and they fight over scribbles on a scrap of paper (perhaps a treature map). They blame each other for the mess they're in. "Delirious wild empie and tremple" could refer to winds and lighting while "washed out in tears dark paintings" refers to the harsh waves. The ship is caught in a maze; they will soon approach their resting place.

Poetry Bug

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/11/creating-the-poetry-bug/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/

For 11 years, Christian Bok worked on "The Xenotext" in attempt to create the world's first living poem. He has enciphered a string of DNA into a bacterium that will become a poetic bug. It is designed to respond to any translated genes inserted inside of the cell, creating an operable poetry machine. Bok was inspired by reading scientific articles done by Pak Chung Wong and Paul Davies. Wong would encode lyrics into a bacterium while Davies formed a theory that bacteria or virus could carry messages and communicate. Christian Bok's goal is to create a new type of poetry form by communication with microorganism.

Examining Poetry

E.E Cummings

Love is more thicker than forget

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/11427

The poem makes me think about how complex "love" can be. How it’s hard to forget and easy to recall. How in most cases it happens most frequent and out of the blue. And that it could drive people mad or desperate too. It's an intense desire that's comparable to fire, kindling one's chest without giving rest. (It made me think of a poem mostly...)

What I like about this poem is that it happens to inspire me. I do think love is a complex subject and that I can agree for the most part that it's hard to forget.

Hist whist

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239196

I'm getting a Halloween vibe from this poem due to the fact it mentioned ghost, witches, goblins and devils. I imagined little children chanting this poem deep in the night, in the middle of a forest or in an abandoned house. Due to the fact that I’m a little paranoid of the supernatural it kind of gave me the creeps as well.

Overall, I like this poem and I think it has a nice charm to it.

Susan Howe

From cabbage gardens

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172011

I am utterly lost and am not used to poems like this. If I had to think of something I'd say it's about an individual seeking guidance in some way. And the first thing that came in mind is that they're in deep thought while surrounded by nature. OR they could be reminiscing about the past. I wouldn't say I dislike the poem but it's really hard to think of a meaning behind it.

From chanting at the crystal sea (the 2nd poem)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172010

I like this poem a lot because it gave me an eerie feeling. It caught my interest because I like dark themes. In the poem it described a figure clad in white who stood surrounded by the blood of fallen warriors. It generally made me think of war and how horrible it is while keeping in mind the people who mourn the loss of their loved ones.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Dread Beat an Blood (pg 5)

My first impression of the poem is that it could be about a ceremony. People who gather at a place during the night, who surrounds the campfire while blazing out music. In the last verse it mentions some kind of a blood sacrifice happening (I think):

“then flash of a blade from another to a him

Lips out for a dog of a flesh of a piece of skin

An blood bitterness exploding fire wailing blood and bleeding”

I like the poem because the rhythm gave me a very dramatic feel and it has a bit creepiness that I am sometimes fond of.

Bass Culture (pg 14)

The poem makes it sound like someone is dying, how they’re in pain while death is drawing near. Their body gave in, too tired to move. Their mind laid focus on the beating of their heart and the flow of their blood. They wait for their fears to come true. I like this poem because at first I didn't get it, I thought it was about a beating heart until it came in mind that it could be about the emotions and conscious state of a dying person.