Poetry Show You Guys!

Posted by Laura G. at May 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM
School Shows

Hello every one
The Poetry Show is coming
Music
Props
Movement
Memorization.

Did you take note of my well placed line breaks? 
Oh yeah, it’s on.

Ok, so I have a confession to make.  I majored in creative writing in poetry in college.  That’s no joke.  My mom’s still mad.  And I’m not a poet because a.) I was terrible at it b.) It made me obsess about rhyming things, which only reinforced the fact that I was TERRIBLE at it and C.)  I was terrified of making all that famous poet money!  But what writing poetry in college did was make me really love reading other people’s poetry.  Because reading along with a poem as if you are writing it, speaking it, or painting it is a really cool feeling.  You get to experience what it’s like to be a poet, to create images, to capture feelings, and maybe even to uncover truths, one word at a time.  And that is what we get to do in the Poetry Show.  Poems can pack so much meaning into such a small space that they can make you go “YES!” and “What?” at the same time.  So you read it again, preferably out loud.  At rehearsal, we read a lot of really good poems that unraveled in unexpected ways. Like this one:

Human Nature

Crazy
Feeling
When you sometimes when
You are happy
You get crazy
And flow up
So this isn’t
Real

-Joshua C. South Shore Cultural Center

I love this poem.  This poem made me remember what it is like to be delirious with joy.  And the last lines, I read them over and over again…is he saying that once I start to “Get crazy/ And flow up” that I can look down at all my bad day frustrations rooting me to the ground and see that they aren’t real? Or is he saying that this “Crazy/ Feeling” feels really good, and that it lifts you above it all—but only for awhile—because in the end it isn’t real ?  Or both?  AHHHHHH! POETRY!

Laura.