Kim Cooper-Week 2

I can relate to Kurt's post about his inspiration for the second assignment. Because it was so open-ended, it really forced you to zoom in on the aspects of life that really stand out to you and those that you are passionate about. Kurt talks about finding the mechanical things about cycling so interesting and working out their different rhythms on the paper. One of the poems I wrote was based on an instrumental song called 'No trains to Kibera." I heard this while I was studying abroad in Kenya last semester. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and one of the largest in the world. The man who wrote this particular song was born and raised in Kibera. The rhyme scheme that I chose for the poem was one that I thought resembled his strumming pattern in the song. One of my favorite things about poetry is that you can put even the most remote details of something on a page and you can give it new shape. The Wrath of the Bees does this very well and it was my favorite poems this week. I had to read it a few times over, and I still don't really understand it, but I like the little pieces of the lines I can understand. The diction and the syntax is crafty and gives life to the most lifeless aspects of it. This is the kind of poetry that I admire most.