just as i was about to give up on Yik Yak, i got a notification saying that 5 people voted my post up. This was surprising to me because it wasn't that impressive of a line of a poem, just something that was on my mind, because I had Chinese food for dinner the previous night and was watching funny turtle videos on the internet. It goes to show that poetry has to come from somewhere, and the poets who write these successful poems get they're inspiration from everyday things just like you and I.

This was a very interesting project, I didn't get the results i had hoped for, but you can't always get what you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7leQB_Oe_k

I don't have too many followers on Tumblr, so i didnt get too many views, but i did get one reblog from Grace!

I decided to try to publish my poem on a new app called Yik Yak. Its similar to Twitter in the sense that you publish your thoughts and other people read them, only Yik Yak is anonymous. Like Twitter, Yik Yak has a character limit of 200, so i was unable to publish the whole poem on there, instead i wrote the first line.

English 10 Poetry Project

This project was one i really struggled with. It was hard for me to decide a way to publish my poem, especially one that would be successful and original. Rather than writing my poem in chalk and filming the process or handing out copies at the art gallery, i decided to take to social media.

 The picture above is what I started with. I couldn't figure out what to write about so I just wrote about passion. I'm a man of many passions, including skateboarding, art, music, so this was a topic i was fond of. My first attempt at getting my poem out there was through Tumblr, which i use as a portfolio for my photos.