Escape Training: Instructor’s Flying Rappel (pg.121)
I jump backwards off the cliff
To show how it’s done:
One two footsteps taps on the face
Of the rock and then I rest
In the blink of an eye I’m at the bottom
Sounds of music that the rope makes
Whistling as the rope flows through the hand
One to stop the other to flow
Feelings of joy how does one express
To those who I teach
In dire situations is this movement useful
But done right it’ll sound like a melody
Measuring out the line is important
All lines eventually end just like a song
Down the rope I fly but as the rope ends
I look down with just a little to go
The
flames
Instead of rescue
This task is able to be done without the use of rope
I complete in silence the maneuver
I jump off the burning floors.
In class last week, the class went through the end part of “City
Eclogue” and wrote a response. This was
a difficult task at least for me since I’m not sure how Ed Roberson wrote these
poems. When the professor asked us to
write the response I read the poems and thought about which one jumped
out. After reading the poem, I thought
about how Ed Robinson styled the poem and what message he was trying to
convey. Since I lack experience writing
poetry I tried to look for patterns and spaces.
After writing the response we went around the class and talked about the
poems we chose and read our response.
Hearing the different interpretations helped me to understand the
writing style better. I also enjoyed
hearing how people thought about the various poems.
The response for this week’s blog is on the poem Escape
training. Reading the poem jumped out at
me because of my own experience rappelling down towers. Ed Roberson did a great job in describing the
experience of rappelling and the excitement it brings. Feeling the rope whistling through my hands
and tapping off the face are two things that I can picture while reading the
poem. The only part I had difficulty
visualizing was the end of the poem since I’m not sure what situation would
require you to rappel off the side of a burning building. I’m thinking that either the poem is about
his experience or if it’s through the experience of someone else. While writing the poem I tried to convey my
own experiences rappelling and also Ed Robinson’s feeling of the burning
building.
After reading the Poems, we talked about what we read in “Bird
by Bird”. The author does a great job in
describing the highs and lows of writing.
In the beginning of the book, the author talks about her own experience
with her father and how he inspired her to write. A classmate talked about how talking about
how “real” her father was is a brave act and I would have to agree with
that. Writing about one’s father is
generally done in a manner that exaggerates or draws one’s father in the best
of light. Anne instead writes about how
her father wrote about her neighborhood in a negative light, which caused
difficulties for her. Also Anne talks
about interacting with her students and how difficult writing can be. “I don’t even know where to start,’ one will
wail” is how I used to act towards my writing teacher in high school and when I
read that part of the book I laughed.
Anne does a great job to encourage writing with “Remember that you own
what happened to you.” Reading this
really put into perspective how easy writing can be. I’m really looking forward to reading more of
this book and learning the ins and outs of writing.
(In-Class) The "State as Body" Aspects of Eunuch Rule (pg. 113)
To hate or love by killing to feel
Simple sense
Interacting with
people cutting away
at my self
Sharing of
blood what is
Knowing others
Losing myself in
others inner turmoil
of the mantel
Earth Eyes on me
Looking into a
mirror
watching myself
Longing for self
Feeling alone always alone
To avoid loneliness
even if
Companion
with death
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