Penscape [Ex Credit Blog]

I walked into room 225 expecting to hear rhymes and rhythms, stories of childhood memories and long lost love. Only after 5 minutes did I realize I had fooled myself. All my life, since I knew how to make words with a pencil, I liked to express myself through art, mainly through writing. When I had a heart and mind full of strong emotions I would instantly grab a pen a pad to write the first words that came to mind. As I finished getting my first words of anger, love, or sadness out I started thinking about what I was writing. "Well, like 2 has to rhyme with line 4, and line 3 needs to rhyme with lines 1 and 5. Ok so...love, dove, above..." I would spend more time thinking of words to rhyme rather than what I was feeling. Listening to you [D.Disarro] showed me that good poetry does need a rhyming pattern. In a sense, yes I always knew that, but I never really understood how to do it. Listening to his piece gave me a bit more hope in my future poetry experiences. As the speakers progressed I saw a common theme. Sexuality. I understand that creative writing and poetry is a form of emotional expression, but honestly...I was a little taken back. One man began talking about the muffin purchased at Starbucks, ending with the quote "I was neutered, and left with a detached dick." Other people would be talking about a normal everyday topic and somehow relate it to sex or their sexuality. Personally, I don't think that's necessary in EVERY poem. Although the writing was obviously good I didn't like how they were all based around sex, their sexuality, and areas of the body. Besides the comments about sex, I liked how so many other metaphors were used. I really enjoy listening to peoples writings when their is such descriptive metaphors only a very talented individual can create in their mind.I really enjoyed listening to some of the works presented at the Penscape, it inspired me to revisit that stored pen and pad.