The great Malcom X once said, “Educations is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for today.” Being from one of the hoods of Shreveport, ‘Motown’ to be exact, opportunity for success was inexistent , not applicable, nowhere in sight. With that in mind, my grandmother not only advocated the …
jokenge by jokenge
For my blog, I chose to do a short haiku of my life. I used the technique shown in class of doing 5 gifs, 7 gifs, and then 5 more. I did add a small twist by experimenting with the different options of displaying images via WordPress. I also spent a lot of time making …
Degree Chasin’
My poem is about how my college career has gone up to this point. I’m in my fifth year, but I took a year off and still have at least another year left. A lot has happened from failing to barely passing, so this best describes how its transpired.
Cats and Dogs
In this blog I chose to portray the comparison between these two fine species of cats and dogs only using GIFs in a poetic form of using simile to compare the two and personification to justify their actions. I also included pictures of my own cat being a b!+&# A$$ cat. Try to translate my …
Complicated: the wattpad novel
My poem is framed on the haiku format, following the 5-7-5 syllable sequence. In this case, however, instead of syllables I'll be using the individual gifs as a representation. The premise of my poem is based off my ongoing three year wattpad novel, Complicated. Now you may ask, "Dre, why choose a haiku?". Haiku's are …
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My free-verse poem is about my dog. We got her when I was very young and she quickly become part of our family and one of my favorite reasons to come home. Right before this school year started we had to make a tough decision, but we knew it was for best because she was …
Rollercoaster Ride
I had trouble coming up with a good idea for a poem. Then I figured I would just express how this semester is going for me so far. This semester was definitely an emotional rollercoaster as you can clearly see, I explain my feelings with these Gifs. This semester has had its ups and downs …
All the Feels
In my couplet, I used gifs with white background throughout the poem. Not only that, but I also used animation gif on the white background to give for a more realistic, cohesive feeling. Every couplet represents an event that happened, or a step taken in their growing relationship. Every gif represents an emotion in the …
Watch it Fall Apart
This semester has been a wild ride, and one might not quite understand quite what I mean because they haven’t seen or gone through it with me. On that note, with this free verse poem, I attempt to take the reader on a journey through my final fall semester. Because the poem is made of …
Oh lord, again?
https://media.giphy.com/media/13rQ7rrTrvZXlm/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/13JHOHY8NoO8Bq/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/ClDK43SFEe2cw/giphy.gif Is gifs a form of art? Are they a form of poetry? The answer is yes. I created this poem just like Dennis Cooper has done. He created poetry with gifs. And guess what? I just used gifs! I used gifs to make my serious and blunt poem into humor at the …
Emotional Roller Coaster
Can’t express yourself with words? Use a GIF! GIF are readily incorporated into today’s communication and humor. A GIF poem or novel, such as Dennis Coopers’, Zac’s Freight Elevator, is a new, yet creative, concept to me. Writing my own GIF poem was a fun challenge. I decided to write a poem composed of one …
Life
This is a free form poem made of eleven different gifs to make up a story. My goal in creating this was to make as many of the gifs in my poem myself. I made all but two of them from various music videos. With these, I was able to string together the story that …
Blog #5
I call this poem "The Evolution of Jefferson St.". For those of you who don't know, Jefferson street is the road where the strip of bars are found in downtown Lafayette. I wanted my poem to be comical as well as relatable. The poem begins with the beginning of a night out which includes getting …
“Changing” Seasons
. . . . . I decided to create my poem with the use of six couplets. I created the, "Rise," and, "Shine," gifs and added text to a few others. The beginning of the poem starts with the end of a seasonal cycle. Throughout the poem we see the changes of the seasons as …
The Life of A Furry Friend
Our lives are fairly planned and predictable. School and/or work during the week. While we are busy during the week, we may forget about what our furry friends are doing at home. Thinking of exactly what they do during the day can seem a little difficult and vague. Their day consists of morning time, before …
Lucky
My poetic form that I used to display my GIFs is a free verse poem. I arranged my GIFs in this certain format because I wanted to tell my story in this way. By putting my GIFs vertically I want viewers to see my story in stages. I want everyone to see the different ranges …
Holiday Szn
After “reading” Dennis Cooper’s GIF poems, I believed that this would a piece of cake to make my own GIF poem. However, I was wrong. I wasn’t really sure to do at first, but then I really started thinking of things that I would enjoy. So, I decided to do a couplet poem for the …
Wait… Did I Water My Plants?
As I was growing up, I always struggled to pick up hobbies. I would always start them and ultimately get bored and quit. When I got to college, I decided to have my go at owning plants. It is the one thing that I am actually decent at and enjoy doing, but I have definitely …
Work? *sigh*
For my Gif poem, I chose to highlight my frustration for my job. I work way too hard at my job and all I hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! Don’t get me wrong, the money keeps me there but even that can’t keep me satisfied. When you are a college student, you are busy ! …
The Farmer and his Cows
Narrative Poetry is the ability to tell a specific story while also incorporating poetry elements within. I chose to tell a story with a tragic problem followed by a bitter truth and finished with a depressing answer. I tried to use elements of color as well as motions to help my poem flow in logical …
Me.
I never could imagine myself ever having to write a poem out of GIFs. This was an interesting assignment to say the least. It really wasn't as hard as I initially thought it would be, but it still took me a little while to come up with wanted I wanted to "write." I chose to …
plant mom
Creating gifs into poems was quite challenging and Dennis Cooper made it seem easy. Integrating gifs into art and poems takes much more skill than you would think. This poem is in the form of couplets and tells the story of a plants life cycle. I color coded the couplets into white and green to …
Peace Arises at Night
These two poems are written in the form of Haikus. This kind of poetry consists of three lines with a certain number of syllables in each line: five in the first, seven in the second, and five in the third. Being that Haikus are mainly centered around aspects of nature, I decided to write on …
Sunshine After Rain
For my poem, I chose to write in the form of a haiku. A haiku is a short poem that consists of 3 line with 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the last. Haikus are usually about nature, so for my poem I focused on a specific aspects of …
Gif Poem
The form of poetry that was recreated is a free-verse poem. This raw sense of poetry without many guidelines and rules seemed like the perfect style for such a nontraditional creation of poetry. The gifs I used, mainly display actions, therefore speaking the actions of the poem. Pacing was developed through this poem by setting …
Discovering
While creating my poem, I contemplated the topic. I did not know exactly what direction I wanted to go in, so I composed this poem based on personal emotions that I am currently feeling. Since it is the end of the semester, motivation is almost at a complete loss. I feel that many may relate. …
Ahhh so Satisfying
I never really thought about GIFs being used in the same format as poetry until I “read’ Dennis Cooper’s novel. I only associated GIFs with funny reactions to send to my friends when I wanted to give a response to what they said. The poetic form that I chose to follow was the couplet. As …
Gif Poem
I chose to do a couplet with rhyme. I did the rhyme by taking gifs from the same TV show/movie in each line. For the original gifs, I put them in the same line to keep the rhyme going. What this poem is about is the process of being assigned a project, working on it, …
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
The gif poem I created is all about Christmas, if it is not already obvious. Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, and although we do not have much of a winter down here in Louisiana, these gifs make up my ideal Christmas. The gifs are placed in order of when Christmas activities …
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Emotional Rush….
--------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- My poem is a small narrative, to make it a little more interesting. I wanted to make a free-verse couplet poem, so I tried to arrange my gifs in a pair of two …
SEX!!!…Now that I have your attention…
Sex is definitely not an easy topic to talk about, yet it has lit up all over the internet like a wildfire. There’s millions of websites and apps that either show or give information about sex, and the rate they’re being looked up is unheard of. Sex has become a staple of modern society. It …
The Internet Ruins The Idea Of Sex and Relationships
Growing up in a catholic private school, the talk about sex was pretty much never talked about. Basically, they would say don’t have it until you are married and that it is bad. It left me to learn about it by myself and talk about it with my close friends. Now you see sex everywhere, …
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Having Sex On Social Media
The terrible sex education I got in middle school did two things for me. Forced the thought that if you have sex, you will get an STD every time, and that abstinence is the only way to avoid teenage pregnancy. It wasn't until a few years later, I learned this information was actually false. The …
Sexuality and Relationships have done a complete turn around…
In today's world you can just go on the internet to learn about sexualtiy and romantic relationships. Personally it has taught me more about sexuality and relationships than an education class or having “the talk” by my parents. I feel that the internet will allow you to see or read explicit content without even looking …
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.men are hurt.
From an early age, I was taught a lot about how to love others correctly. Now before my you assume the worst of my small Christian family, let me clear some things up. Yes we believe in God, Yes we are white, upper-middle class, and yes, my family was close minded. Naturally, a family of …
Literature & the Internet 
