Thursday, October 8, 2009

poem below - in vector form???

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pvought/some%20kind%20of%20poem/vpoem.swf

Exams coming

Pressure’s mounting

No time for studying

Test’s in an hour

Down some coffee

Get out of bed

Drag yourself to class

Stumble through your instructions

Why doesn’t any of this make sense???

Its like reading another language

This isn’t fair,

It’s the Michigan difference

Saturday, October 3, 2009


I would venture to say the entire idea

of a sonnet is a rather ridiculous thing.

The very thought of being boxed in a genre

is enough to make any creative man scream.


So try as one may to confine what they’re feeling

to the shackles of inhibiting rhythms and rhymes,

most will find themselves frantically fleeing

from the boundaries of these stifling 14 lines.


To the poetry instructors from every nation:

please attempt to grasp this. I’m trying so hard

to convey this emotion in strict rhythmic formation.

Can’t you see that these rules may as well just be bars!


And the truly ridiculous thing I must add;

Is that my sonnet is actually not half bad.