oh dilly dally
1 comment | posted May 5
After having a look around Virb I've discovered that most people that use this are photographers or graphic designers, which i am not. It's very cool to look at people's photography though. My mom is actually a photographer and I admire her creativity. I like creativity, but I seem be lacking in that department. I think up good ideas in my head, but don't have the means with which to create them...or the abilities. I told my mom that I was jealous of how creative she is, but then she told me that I can play an instrument and that's one thing I've got on her..haha. I am creative in different ways though. I like to write and express myself through the written form. I think words are beautiful and there's so many, thousands upon thousands, that I do not use in my daily speech. It's interesting that a word can have a different meaning to different people because of their experiences with that word. A word is really a symbol and if we have negative feelings it becomes a negative symbol. My professor last year told our class that he had bad memories with the word 'brick.' When he was a little boy he was playing outdoors in a grassy feild and he found a brick and decided to throw it, not knowing that it would land on his poor friends head and sending him to the hospital. My story doesn't do his story any justice, because my professor was such a great storyteller and because my memory isn't so clear, but I think you get my point about words being symbols and how we view them.
I wanted to buy a new journal today, but I want a leatherbound one and I cannot afford to spend $25 on one. I will probably just bring a notebook or some old journal with me to Germany. I cannot believe that there is only one more day until I go! I am so excited/ a little bit nervous! i'm studying spanish at the moment, so...yo no sé mucho de alemán, pero "ich lerne". haha, that is a great sentence. which really says, "i don't know a lot of german, but "I'm learning." half spanish/half german.
I just bought "Searching For God Knows What Today," which I am pretty excited to read! I've been meaning to read it for awhile, because I love Don Miller and his writing style, but I was too busy with school work (when I actually did school work.)
This is a poem that I wrote this year that I just feel like posting...tell me how you like it, if you like it..or if you think it needs improvement, i'm open to criticism!
Silent Melodies
Drifting in the breeze
Follow our bare feet
Over eroded memories
Subtle similarities are shared
in unspoken whispers,
as we breathe in salty air
in search of serenity.
Pretty parodies,
Trick us into thinking
This is heaven.
***
benjamin young says:
searching for god knows what...yes!
the poem:
i think its too abstract, in a poetry class i learned that poetry is best conveyed through the scene, here you only hint at the scene but it escapes before the reader can grasp it... for example "Follow our bare feet Over eroded memories" the reader has no reference point for these memories and it is generally a bit ask to get the reader to link this with their own eroded memories, a better word for memories could be something in the physical that represents memories like: sandunes or forests. i would offer similar advice for the rest of the poem but i think my point is made.(?)
i do like the implications of the last stanza.
posted May 6