A view on Poetry

I feel poetry is always hard to get into at first.  Usually there is no attention getter right off at the beginning but one must take the time to read and find further connections.  This is why a lot of people hate poetry so much but these poems were pretty good I thought.  I almost thought that my favorite was the Messenger or the Uses of Sorrow poems.  The Uses of Sorrow was so short but made you think about how thoughtful just a few lines could actually be.  The Messenger had really good imagery in it especially the line, “telling them all how it is we live forever.” I thought it showed how even the creatures of the world scream and worship for God and just how the world is missing this big critical aspect of peace and harmony with nature and with each other.  The essay talks about how our love for God should in return give us a passion for his creation.  This not only means with other humans but with nature and the outdoors as well.  I also really wanna stress the importance of having that connection with God and the world and how it effects us  producing,good fruit.  See, it almost feels that when we write and appreciate poetry and literature we are taking in other people’s fruits. This not only allows us to grow spiritually and test our faith but help develop our fruits as well.  I feel that this is where many Christians get stuck, is that they know they are going to heaven so they don’t see any reason to try and further the kingdom and so they lack the fruits and power that God has given them.  Honestly they are cutting themselves short, I fell, because they are not being the best person that they can be without spreading or sharing God’s love with someone.  One thing I liked about the essay is how he described it as a tension and that we’re supposed to build it up.   

First off, I was not able to have acces to a computer this weekend but I thought I would just mention that I really enjoyed the trip to Circle B.  It was alot of fun and I plan on going their again just to visit and walk around. 

On Thursday night I did attend the showing of Othello.  It was hard to get into at first but by the end i thought it was pretty interesting, kinda cliche as far as Shakespeare's tragedy's go almost. 

 "I went to Lake Bonny Park for this field trip, and I stayed there for at least 45 minutes."