#4

My favorite poem, which I also used in my introduction blog, is Invictus by William Ernest Henley:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.

I love this poem because it inspires me to take charge and persevere through anything that comes my way. One thing I can learn from this poem is how to use rhyme effectively. I'm not so good at rhyming in my pieces. I usually end up writing to the rhyme, just like the poem BFF?? did. I think Henley managed to use rhymes to aid his piece rather than make it or hinder it.

#3

What is poetry?



Inspiration or disaster,
The pen is the master.
Faster and faster
The hand works till it fails.

Hastily scrawling
The images sprawling
The mind's voice drawling
Telling every detail.

Laughter and tears,
Courage and fear,
Some will adhere
And others will sail.

Pages print
The draft is sent
So much feeling went
Into telling this tale.





Poetry is written emotion.
~LaRue

#2

I decided to combine several of the free entry ideas since I didn't have enough of a single subject to write an entire blog. Here goes nothing.

Puns:
Edgar Allan Poe always used his manners when writing. He called it "Poetiquette."
I decided last week to write a book. My friends called it a novel idea.
Everyone I'm related to writes poems. Instead of a family tree we have a poetry.

They were supposed to be terrible, right?

Words that do not belong in poetry:
Personally-if you write about something, it's either your view or a character's view. There's no need to write "personally."
Sweater-this word is so overused. We get it. Nerdy is the new cool--glasses and sweaters and all that. Don't talk about a sweater in your poems unless you want to be written off completely in my book. It sounds harsh I know, but it's the truth.

Words I like:
Incognito-probably one of my favorite words because no one says it seriously.
Antidisestablishmentarianism-takes me back to the middle school days when you were cool if you knew this word. And really cool if you knew how to spell it. And even cooler if you knew what it meant.
Spontaneous-it represents such freedom in your actions. I think everyone should be a little more spontaneous.

~LaRue