Blog Post For Creative Writing Class on 9/25

Our assignment was to read City Eclogue by Ed Robertson, a book completely filled with poetry. Personally, I had great disdain for the book by the time I was half way through. As great as poetry is as a means of communication, I feel that a book written completely in poetry is too overwhelming. By the time I was half way through the book, I could barely even figure out what it was about. I'm sure the book was good, but I'm under the firm belief that poetry is best heard to allow audiences to fully grasp nuances behind the poetry.
We were also required to follow twenty instructions on writing poetic lines, and then use them to create a few poems. I decided it would be better to to call the poem "Rantings of a Madman," and tweak the lines so that they flow, even though the instructions seemed unrelated. My favorite line(s) I wrote was
"Can you hear the vibrant,
can you see the sour?
Can you taste the grit?
Can you feel the fragrance,
can you smell the screams?"

I thought it would be interesting to make each sense perceive something that the sense usually doesn't perceive, which worked well with the line where we had to refer to ourselves in third person.

Cameron Baker