new week blog

for me, the tension poem assignment was the most difficult assignment we've had yet. I normally write in a rhythm pattern and try to tell a story that people can picture. with the addition of needing rising and falling instances of tension, i was forced to carefully structure my poem with contrasting lines either with tension or without. i chose to write about a guy who has a crush on a girl and faces the dilemma of whether or not to approach her and talk to her. i tried to incorporate the tension of a close game that wasn't about a game, and i've had an idea for a poem like this for a while. the terminology is easy to understand and it flows like a song. I usually listen to instrumental music when i do school work, and I was listening to a particular beat when i wrote this poem. so the words in the poem fit to a beat and it flows nicely. this is how i like do many of my poems, as i see much of acapella hip-hop music as spoken word/poetry.