Though I tend to use my tumblr account mostly for drawings,pictures or other random visuals, a poem does happen to pop up on my dashboard once in a while. I thought I'd share the two I came across the last month cause I like them for their intensity.
http://lexysama.tumblr.com/post/65507408936/sweaty-goddess-buttonpoetry-rachel-wiley
http://ladyzolstice.tumblr.com/post/62712154284/ishipthat-shanwaters-archiescrush
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Poem Recording
Sick people should not do recordings of their voices. I realized this last week after the 10th attempt of me reading a poem resulted in tears as I listened to the nasally sound of my stuffed up voice. No matter how hard you try to cover up the sniffling, you can still hear the reader choking on their on phelm.
So, after a few days of popping pills and sleeping, I managed to take back my voice and record me reading one of my favourite poems as a child, Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. I tried to read it with my energy at first, but then I got horribly embarrassed and settled with being mediocre.
Here it is! https://soundcloud.com/acadicus/annabelle-lee
So, after a few days of popping pills and sleeping, I managed to take back my voice and record me reading one of my favourite poems as a child, Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. I tried to read it with my energy at first, but then I got horribly embarrassed and settled with being mediocre.
Here it is! https://soundcloud.com/acadicus/annabelle-lee
Ipad Poetry
So me and two of my buds headed down to our school library the other day to check out the Ipad mini's which they were lending out to us. However, these weren't just any Ipad mini's these ones featured mainly poetry apps. And I thought to myself
What sort of applications could you possibly make that involve poetry. I mean, you just need some word processing program and you're basically good to go. But they had some interesting things on there.
The three that stood out to me were
Visual Poetry: Basically, you type out your poem and them it takes it and shapes the verses into whatever shape you want followed by you fiddling around with the colour. It's cool if you want something artsy or a poster type of thing, but you have to actually have a poem in mind beforehand. Me and my friend tried to make a poem. But it isn't the type of poem that should pop up on a poetry blog so I shall not share.
Migration: No poetry writing here. The poem is already made. I didn't catch the name of the author but I bet he's a pretty cool guy. In this app, each verse of the poem is shaped into a jellyfish and they float around the screen. If you drag one around, the words it contains, start flaking off and you can read bits and pieces of the poem at your leisure. It's fun to play with and it kinda forces you to analyze the poem in fragments.
Verse Poetry: I really liked this one. Now verse poetry (from what I remember from my Grade 11 creative writing class) is where you take words that you like from various magazines,books,newspapers, what have you, and you cut them out to try and make a poem. In this app, random words are given to you to use. You can pick different sources, like words that have something to do with medieval Europe or something, and then move them around to form your own poem. Me and my friends spent most of our time using this app and each of us took turns making a poem from the same set of letters. Mine goes:
Sunny eyes watching
Your sorrows commotion
Grinning, then hoping
these to the fallen
So pro, I should totally just ditch art and head straight for freelance poetry. That's where all the money is made. You can check out my other friend's poem at her blog here: http://technopoetree.blogspot.ca/
What sort of applications could you possibly make that involve poetry. I mean, you just need some word processing program and you're basically good to go. But they had some interesting things on there.
The three that stood out to me were
Visual Poetry: Basically, you type out your poem and them it takes it and shapes the verses into whatever shape you want followed by you fiddling around with the colour. It's cool if you want something artsy or a poster type of thing, but you have to actually have a poem in mind beforehand. Me and my friend tried to make a poem. But it isn't the type of poem that should pop up on a poetry blog so I shall not share.
Migration: No poetry writing here. The poem is already made. I didn't catch the name of the author but I bet he's a pretty cool guy. In this app, each verse of the poem is shaped into a jellyfish and they float around the screen. If you drag one around, the words it contains, start flaking off and you can read bits and pieces of the poem at your leisure. It's fun to play with and it kinda forces you to analyze the poem in fragments.
Verse Poetry: I really liked this one. Now verse poetry (from what I remember from my Grade 11 creative writing class) is where you take words that you like from various magazines,books,newspapers, what have you, and you cut them out to try and make a poem. In this app, random words are given to you to use. You can pick different sources, like words that have something to do with medieval Europe or something, and then move them around to form your own poem. Me and my friends spent most of our time using this app and each of us took turns making a poem from the same set of letters. Mine goes:
Sunny eyes watching
Your sorrows commotion
Grinning, then hoping
these to the fallen
So pro, I should totally just ditch art and head straight for freelance poetry. That's where all the money is made. You can check out my other friend's poem at her blog here: http://technopoetree.blogspot.ca/
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