Journal 8?

I have mixed feelings about this current unit. I love poetry and have always admired it. I think this may be because poetry can have a set structure or formula, which is a step closer to my comfort zone of scientific writing. In my first poem of this unit I did not take advantage of any particular structure however. Rather I tried to have it be a bit more free verse and expressive. I was slightly influenced by this particular poem, http://vimeo.com/9526797. The second poem I thought I would enjoy writing due to the requirement of structure and meter; boy was I mistaken. In my head I was hoping to make a beat poem, as inspired by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw. So much for that! My goal was to write at least a page of iambic pentameter, but it didn't take me long to realize that writing even 5 successive lines was a near impossible feat. Even once I had done that, I realized I was losing the message I was trying to convey by trying to keep the correct emphasis and syllable number. I thought I would sleep on it and read it the next day; that was a mistake. When I reread what I had, the way I read it I realized I had reversed the stressed/ unstressed pattern I though I had. Not only that, I realized that for many of my lines, I had ended with 2 stressed syllables. One thing is for sure, I could really use that divine intervention from the god whom this blog is named after!