Week 5: Structure of Spells

I liked how somatic poetry is about engaging everyday life through writing. I have always held the notion that only wonderful and mystical concepts could be written in poetry, however somatic poetry states that everything can be written about. Writing is a way to spark new ideas and different modes of though, and that is the magic of this kind of poetry. Creativity the only way to write about all the things that are available. I was interested in the idea that somatic poetry is in collaboration with all the emotions, experiences, and people you have encountered in your lifetime. This notion makes sense, because you can only write about things you have witnessed empirically firsthand or secondhand. Firsthand being experiencing in for yourself, and secondhand is considered reading it or hearing it from someone else. The overall objective I find is to return to the world and resist the urge to fall victim to societies and our vices. 

The workshop I relished the most contemplating about was the first workshop of "(Soma)tic Poetry at St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC." This is because it dived into our vanishing refluxes, and it forces you to think about things that we miss during close observation. This brings up the question as to why we forget certain images and builds on ideas on why we miss what we miss. One could go write a research essay on just this assessment, because our results to deeply into our psychology of the mind.