Poetry Blog

The poetry blog that I found is called  denvergabriel, run by Denver Gabriel (http://denvergabriel.wordpress.com/). One of the reasons that I chose this blog is because it is only poetry. Most of the other blogs had many comments, journals, and whatnot that aren't poetry.  But the main reason I chose this blog stood out to me not because of something in particular that it has, but what it does not have. Nearly every single other poetry blog that I found consisted of poems talking about issues the world faces or ones that they have struggled with in their life. Many poets use their blogs to preach to you about what is right or wrong, as where this blog consists of poems about normal, ordinary things and experiences. Other blogs preach to you about a racist man they encountered, and how wrong and ignorant he is. Or a woman preaches to you about how she is a victim of sexual harassment, and explains how traumatizing the life event was. One blog I read, talked about how ignorant people are who don't celebrate national human rights day. He said that white and straight people are ruining the day by not paying attention to its important, and that if you practice a religion that says "love thy neighbor" it is apart of your religion to support the holiday, and obligated to pay attention to it. I don't mean to come off as a scumbag by tearing apart these peoples poetry blogs, I could not agree more with them that racism is wrong, sexual harassment is not a joke, and national human rights day is important. But I believe that their way of supporting their cause is not the right way to do so. Telling white, straight, christian, men that they are obligated to support a holiday will drive them away from it. Talking about how racists are ignorant, will just fuel more racism, and talking about how it is wrong to make sexual harassment a joke will just make it even more funny than those who already do. Even more than that, I believe that those attitudes and topics are ruining poetry. Some people do not want to listen to people preach about what they think is wrong with the world, and would rather be more entertained by poetry about simple, everyday things like Denver Gabriel does.