2nd Quarter Poetry Journal Reflection

The poetry response that I chose was a prompt that I wrote in response to the Bison Crossing Near Mount Rushmore poem. I wrote....

And we keep our line, slowly moving ahead to our dreaded misery.
Slowly, pacing, thinking before moving, like pawns in a chess game we are just pawns of human society reluctantly following high society thinking not speaking,
not contributing only playing.
 ONLY FOLLOWERS.
 Not teachers,
 for that is left to the rest.
For that is left for the rest.
Leaving
 behind
the
remains
 for
us


I wrote this poem because during the poem I tried to think of characteristics of the bison. They seemed unified and obedient I guess. Like they were just following. So, I tried to write a confusing poem to go along with bison crossing Mount Rushmore. I liked how I capitalized important words that I wanted to stand out to the audience. These are kind of like the overall message of the poem. Although, this poem doesn't necessarily have a specific meaning that is clear. They are mashed up meanings, all blended together. I think that this poem really clarifies how humans are just inferior to themselves. True, there are humans that are considered greater and more powerful, but they're still humans. They shouldn't be any greater. They may just be more noticed. So, if there was a message to this poem, that would be it. That all humans are humans, and no human is inferior to another.

So, again the pictures wouldn't load, just like on my last post. But what the picture was going to be was a line of people that was kind of dramatic with the words follower written above each of their heads. It actually was a good picture, and it fit well with the response, but my stupid computer would not load any of the pictures. So, after spending a while trying to get these pictures to load, I figured I would just explain the picture instead.