Apr 30, 2017
That moment when you realize Charlie Scene’s real name is Jordan Terrell
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That moment when you realize Charlie Scene’s real name is Jordan Terrell
Knights By Jordan Terrell
High School,
Judgment School.
Cheerleaders, Jocks, Geeks, Freaks we've seen it all
What's worse to you?
Being a Drama Freak or Choir geek?
Project partner is the school's loner?!? Eghh why me???
Don't forget to label the people within categories!
Smart nerd, Dumb jock, Pretty geek, witty freak
Gothic loser, Underrated foreigner, All-around perfect guy
Let's not forget the "special" cheerleader
Everywhere you look Cliques
Cliques
Cliques
Cliques
And then there is you
You could fit in anywhere
but never seem to stay in one category
Not even a subcategory!
Puzzling and weird to the popular group
Odd to the freaks
Cool card to the geeks
Just another face in the crowd to the loners
As hard as everyone tries you just doesn't seem to fit in anywhere
Permanently that is.
Perplexed
Frustrated
They scream
Why can't you just conform!?!
Give into peer pressure!
Just stick to one form!
Don't be so divergent!
Didn't you get the memo?!?!?
This high school has a system
Where being different doesn't belong.
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Questions/ Observations; Jordan Terrell
1) I thought it was really interesting how Diggs uses different languages in her poems as she references aspects of that culture. For example she used Japanese in "Mista popo hollas @ jynx" because both characters she is referencing are from Japenese animated shows.
2) I like how "who you callin' a jynx" is a response to the first poem. After reading the notes that she provided it helped me understand more of what she was saying in all of her poems; especially in the poems with multiple languages.
3) What is she trying to portray by using so many languages in the poems? I personally think she is trying to preserve the culture of those languages. To show people that with every language there are years and years of culture and history that comes along with it and shouldn't be forgotten.
Yona Harvey Response ; Jordan Terrell
According to the Google definition an Ostinato is a rhythm or musical phrase that is continuous and doesn't change. Wikipedia recommended that I listen to Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition'. When reading this poem and thinking about how I would have this be preformed, I thought of this experimental jazz music. Where there is a musician (usually a drummer) on stage playing this constant beat that they just come up with on the spot and a singer on stage just singing to the beat. Picking where she wants to come in, stop, hold a note, use diminuendo ( loud to soft), crescendo (soft to loud), use dynamics or speed up her/his phrasing. I would really give the singer free will to do whatever they thought would be appropriate for this poem. I picture a singer changing pitch and/or tone on the italicized words such as in lines 1-3 Mercy, Well, and Speak. As well as maybe staggering the pauses put throughout the poem. I think it would be really cool to exaggerate and elongate certain words especially in lines 14-16.
My Questions/ Observations:
1) I thought it was really captivating in ' Hearing My Daughter's Heartbeat The First Time' to put 3 quotes by 3 African- American poets/authors in the beginning of the poem as well as structure.
2) In 'Devil Music' I found it really compelling and imagery captivating. She described it in such a way that made it really easy to paint a picture in my head.
3) In 'Theory of the Unheld' at the end of the poem the last line what does she mean by "they were expecting" ?
Shane McCrae Prompt.
I recently read a book called Conversion by Katherine Howe which is about the Salem witch trials. I really love any book with history in it and thought that this was interesting reading because of its point of view. With my metier, I was thinking as a project I could sing a couple of songs from that time period that tell a story about what it was like to live in that time period. I would do a lot of research on that time periods music and the way they told stories through music.
Questions from poem:
1) Why was she so brutal in killing her own children?
2) Why did she hit her son she had with her actual husband the hardest?
3) What happened to the woman? Was she killed?
Dawn Lundy Martin Style Poem; Jordan Terrell
It just doesn't make sense. I can't think straight right now. It seems like everything I say and do is wrong. I'm losing my way---slowly. Tumbling down the rabbit hole to wonderland never to return. But something is pulling me back, back to reality. I don't- I can't explain this feeling of being tired all the time. Sometimes I feel like I'm just going through life, existing. Not living my life, taking chances, interacting with people, going on adventures but just existing. Like a robot, lacking emotion, already programmed on how to live life and to never stray from the schedule engirded into its robotic brain. That terrifies me, just existing. Never straying from the normal so that when I die it's just another person dead. No one mourning. Often sitting in class I wonder about what living a "full" life means and how does one ever know if they have lived a "full" life. Are there guide lines? Does it depend on age? Gender? How much money they make? How many people they have impacted in the world? Politics? Religion?
Questions:
1) Why is there coding at the end of the poem?
2) On page 29 who is she referring to when she says ' You are in the face of something magnificent'?
3) What does she mean when she says The I is/more relaxed/when it is hunted?