Poetry

I am not an avid poetry reader. But I do surf the web for amazing poems. Many of them are not contemporary poets. I find them on different sites and keep them in a word document. My topics that I collect range from death to life, happiness, heartbreak, loneliness, love, friendship, and many more. I would love to actually memorize some of my more favorite poems. But I am content with just finding them for now. I have found a large (10x13 or so) journal that I can start writing them down in. My handwriting is not the best so it'll take awhile. But these are poems I want collected in one book for myself. Maybe even put some artwork around them. I already have a spiral bound art book that has some of my favorite poems already typed up in it. Within this book I paired my collected poems with pictures I have taken over the years of nature and inanimate objects; some wildlife. I think even a person who doesn't like poetry can appreciate how poets can create a feeling in a reader through a few lines.

It would be amazing if I could write poetry. I have dabbled in it and have a few of my own poems. But they aren't really for sharing until I polish them up some more.

"Zoo" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

This is the first book I have read by James Patterson. Eventually I will try the Alex Cross series since I have heard great reviews about it. I decided to read "Zoo" because of the commercials I saw about the miniseries and then saw it at Walmart. It was pretty much a decision of the moment book. It was very good! There isn't a lot of the plot I can talk about. To me it is along the lines of a doomsday book. Towards the end I am angry for the human race. We can be stupid as a large population and Patterson and Ledwidge show how. The book is disturbing to read; especially if you own an animal. But it moves along quickly and keeps the reading thinking about why the animals all went homicidal on humans and if we are going to figure out how to stop them before we become extinct. The authors also touch on how political forces can sway a population to go the way they want it to. All in all I would say it is worth a read. I'm not sure if I an watch the miniseries. But it would be interesting to see how they align the events with the events of the book.