Realism

Drown

Drowning underwater,

A rope lynched around my ankles,

Tied to bricks,

Pulling me down,

As I watch feet,

Walking above me.

Looking through  my reflection,

In the shining sharks,

As they raced around my body.

I wondered,

What could have been?

What should have been?

What is here?

What is now?

Where will the stones take me?

How can you say I  jumped in a running river,

When you pushed me here?

How can I swim to the top,

Knowing that I’ll die,

Before I get there?

And just like karma,

You wear the veins in your eyes,

Like Louis vuitton glasses,

And around your neck,

Like a golden Varcache chain.

I drown underwater,

Even when i’m walking through air.

But I still,

Watch the sharks eat,

you.

What makes a good poem?

   

   A good poem is for making a connection with the audience through the context within the meaning
behind the poem. Whatever is writing in the poem has to do with the writer and their connection to
the piece. The most effective thing with poetry is that there are many theories behind what the writer
is saying and what the poem itself says to the audience. There is no right or wrong way for poetry, but
if the poem brings the audience to a critical thinking point, then the poem had a deep context that
made it mean something.

    Even Though many of my poems have elements of symbolism, the difficult error I have when writing
is how am I going to connect what I am going through in my head with something else. I need the
audience to not only know what I am talking about, but to also see it. I have to find the things that
connect to me and right about them through a situation that plays through my mind.

    Overall, I don’t critique myself that easy, but with my poem this week I think I did fine. I’m glad
that people liked it. I usually don’t read them out loud to others, but I found it to be a good exercise
and practice.

Week 2: Symbolism

Poetry always means something. A poem could not be written without meaning. Poetry is a form of
literary contemporary art meaning that it is a form of work that the reader would have to bring something
to the piece. Behind poetry is an element that is to be unfold. Poetry is not a mystery, but sometimes
the reader has to unfold the context within the poem.

In the visual arts, especially in contemporary work, the viewer always looks for a meaning behind
the element of the artwork. Visual arts is a totally different concept the poetry, which is more of a
literary artwork. There is no right or wrong what to any of the two. Both Visual Arts and poetry
carry concept and meaning, but in a way that we process differently.

I disagree with the phrase “Too Hard”. I believe that if the poet made poetry ”too simple”, by just
writing sentences in stanzas that are simple, then the meaning and context behind the elements
dies. The poetry has to have flavor, and the audience needs to taste what poet is saying.  
An artist cannot create art without purpose.

           

         Passion Fruit 

Fruit of knowledge,

Let your blood run down my breast.

Soak into me,

Deep,

as I bite into you.

Serpent's semen,

Race through my veins.

Impregnate me with Abel,

Let my death be victorious.

Soiled hands,

Take me under the tree of shame.

Reject me in the light,

As I walk into flames,

With you.

Writing Process

                                   



                                          

When one processes an idea for creative poetry, the idea comes for experience, inspiration, or a personal belief. Good synthetic poetry always carries a certain context intended by the writer. The writer connects with the message, or experience, then translates it through a symbolic metaphor.
The writer has to start by thinking of a specific scene. The scene that is being pictured in the writer's head connects with a situation or experience. Then the writer takes that scene, then adds a subject to it. The subject will give the scene imagery which will expand the poem metaphors and symbolism.

     Although writing from experience or inspiration is a usual way of going through the process for idea, there are some writers who will sit and write on cue. Everyone has a different method of creativity through their writing.

Personally when I write, I have to go in a place of isolation whether if thats in my bedroom, car, or even an quite empty space in a public area.  My best ideas usually come at night. A lot of the things I write about take place either at night, or the solitude of loneliness and by being in the atmosphere that sets the tone of what i'm writing about will move my creativity forward.

Week 1: Introduction

                                                        

-Good poetry comes from the heart weaved within the soul of the writer. It brings the reader into the depths of the writers world. Poetry is more than just words, imagery, sound, or symbolism. It is a contemporary element of art that moves us.

-A good work of art comes from experience. It is controversial and has a premise from the artist. Great work of art dose not come from visuals, but context. 

                                                            Without Hope 

               Frida Kahlo, 1945

                                                          

Weaving into the world,

I sew my skin through a mattress.

The sun whispered goodnight.

I slept with the doors opened,

while watching a sky rotate,

listening to a dancing waterfall,

as the moon greeted good morning.

Force feeding myself,

rejections of yesterday and tomorrow.

Nailed over a short ladder,

that leads to here.

There are no walls,

In the bottom grounds,

of the Grand Canyon.