This week discussing and reading about blues and how it can be modified into verse poetry is an excellent topic. I really enjoy blues music and have been to many blues concerts. It is something that I find very inspirational. Langston Hughes is one of the best poets of all time and the fact that he used this type of poetry regularly gives the style a huge amount of notoriety. So before I even started brain storming on how to proceed with the poem I was excited.
Then I started the poem and realized it was going to be harder to do than I once thought. I got through a couple of lines and hit a wall. I'm still trying to sort through it but I'm almost there. It is a challenging but fun process.
The biggest problem was figuring out my inspiration for the poem. I started listening to a lot a blue songs and that sort of got me going on the right track. I realized how many blues songs are pretty much the same type of situation just stated with different words. That worked against me but I finally got to a point where I am satisfied with my work.
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