desperate attempts at poetry

Having missed last week's class, I couldn't help but feel as if I was flailing around when trying to write something this week. I'm hoping I'll get some perspective and inspiration tonight so that I might finish up my project.

Here is what I did today for poetry, I mean, if that is the kind of thing you came here to see.

Couldn't decide when to capitalize a new line or when to add periods. Do you think it looks better if each new "thought" is separated by a line break and a period?

I don't feel like the periods add anything myself. How about you?

In the drool-filled haze between the sleeping and waking world I thought to myself, "Damn, my feet are COLD," and then, "That poetry submission is DUE soon, yo!" and I had a thought for a poem. Kind of silly! Let's see!

I was going to put in a LOT more effort and make this rhyme... I might revisit it and use it as a part of my submission.

Actually, now that I think about it, that is a really dumb thing. Needs work. I wonder if I just wanted to make a pun.

I had poetry on my mind this week, which isn't to say that I sought it out. Rather, just being aware of it let me see it in some surprising places. I have the feeling this will become a common theme with my writings for this class.

Today I was playing through an older video game of mine — Silent Hill 2 — and reading through the notes that you find during gameplay. One struck me as relevant to poetry, as despite not being a poem per-say, still read to me as poetry. The note is from the diary of a dying man, and reads:

Rain.
Stared out the window all day.
Peaceful here - nothing to do.
Still not allowed to go outside.

May 13
It's clear outside.
The doctors told me I've been
released - that I've got to go
home.
I --------------

For the sake of brevity, I edited out the days between the first and the last. This was not written as poetry. Yet I can read it as a poem. It seems to me to be a poem. There is something I feel I should learn from that, but damned if I know what it is yet.

Hopefully I'll have a more intelligible response to these discoveries next week.