Final Blog Post

After taking this course I learned about the different forms of poetry and how they can affect readers. To me personally poetry takes on many forms of media such as music, digital and fine arts, and cinema. I didn't really understand the purpose of writing poetry except for one trying to express themselves and I didn't realize how much of an impact poetry had when trying to deliver a message about different problems that certain communities must face. Learning about the different forms of poetry also puts into perspective the mindset other artist and poets have when coming up with their own poetry.

Given what I've learned about the last 100 years or so I'd say the role of an artist today is to inspire and bring people together as one through an expressive art form.

Red Raven

No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.

The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face

Here was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and each turn a novel effect.

The panes here were scarlet --a deep blood color. 

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

One by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel

Bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

            

            With such name as “Nevermore.”

Swept Under- Final Presentation

Currents, thoughts, currents

Swimming, floating, swimming

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Breathe, stroke, breathe, stroke

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Thinking, contemplating, wondering

Swimming, floating, swimming

Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Rest, swim, rest, swim

Swimming, splashing, gasping

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle

Gasping, sinking, drowning

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle

Sinking, drowning, dying

Think, panic, think, panic

Thinking, panicking, dying

Swim, fight, swim

Thinking. STOP THINKING! SWIM!

SWIMMING, SWIMMING, SWIMMING

Gasping, breathing, gasping

Gasping, wheezing, panting

Gasping, inhaling, choking

Wheezing, exhaling, gasping

Free, safe, free

Thoughts, currents

I'm OK

Darkness 

conceals the 

pain 

The pain 

of losing 

what we hold dear

We hide in the 

shadows so others 

don't see us cry

Saying everything is 

ok Although it's a lie

You stand tall

 head strong

feeling as if 

the end 

is nigh

No one

realising

deep

down

every

thing

is

     NOT ok

Found Poem

Take this kiss upon the brow

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow --

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

For the night -- tho' clear -- shall frown --

And the stars shall look not down,

From their high thrones in the Heaven,

With light like Hope to mortals given --

But their red orbs, without beam,

To thy weariness shall seem

As a burning and a fever

Which would cling to thee for ever :

But evil things, in robes of sorrow,

   Assailed the monarch's high estate.

(Ah, let us mourn!- for never morrow

   Shall dawn upon him desolate!)

And round about his home the glory

   That blushed and bloomed,

Is but a dim-remembered story

   Of the old time entombed.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand --

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep -- while I weep