Creativity

You know what drives me absolutely nuts? Poetry. Because I recognize now that I am not a very good poet, because to be a good poet involves so many things. It involves rhyme and meter and feel and line length and over all length, which are things either you understand or you don't. I understand them well enough to know good poetry from bad, from a technical stand point, but nowhere near well enough to write good poetry. But here's what bugs me, I haven't found many others my age who do write good poetry. Free form has destroyed poetry, in my opinion. People change rhyme schemes and meter mid-sentence. It's ridiculous.

That being said, write poetry. If it makes you happy don't let my opinion stop you. If you want an editor, I'm here. I'm pretty good at it, and I'd love to see your work and try to help you get better. This goes back to the fact that I feel there is a severe lack of good art in the world today.

To clarify, I define art as something that displays a moment of truth, a shining spot of clarity in an otherwise grim and uncaring world. Art helps us define not only the world around us, but ourselves. That being said, there's a lot of crap running around in the world that pretends to be art. That infuriates me, but what's worse is that people buy into it. It has no creativity, no passion, no truth of the human experience. Whoever made it is quite obviously dead inside. It's pretty obvious to anyone that has spent any time critically examining art.

So I want to help my generation, because I feel that this lack of art leads to a lack definition. That lack of definition, that inability to define yourself and your world, that is what is destroying humanity. Ergo, the only way to try and fix that is to help people grow their art. So bring it to me and I'll try to help.
So, tune in next week folks for a blog post about higher education.