The Toolkits for poet’s website was very helpful to me since I know very little about poetry. Through this website I was able to find a link called Poetry form and Terminology. I spent the majority of the time browsing this site familiarizing myself with the terms associated with poetry. I was shocked to see the large number of terms associated with poetry. Through this link I also browsed the other websites containing information over Asian-inspired forms of poetry. I was not intrigued by the Asian-forms of poetry. I found them to be very confusing. I believe that this site will be very helpful to me in writing poems. It contains the basic fundamentals that I need in order to be successful as a beginning poetry reader and composer.

I also spent some time browsing through the link for Japanese poetry patterns. I was most interested in the information on haikus. I read information and thought about the poetry style. For a poem that is short, I thought it would be easy to write; however, as I read more about them I realized that they are very well thought out and difficult. The part I thought was most interesting is that in a haiku the first line should convey a feeling through images drawn from our natural world. Wow!! I think that when you read something and it invokes emotions or images in your mind that are strong that it is amazing. When you hear people say that the written word is powerful, this is what I think of. Not only does it educate us, but it invokes such great emotions.

I believe that this site will help me in writing because it provides the fundamentals for poetry and a wide variety of links for examples of written works. There is such a diverse selection of authors and forms that I will be able to expose myself to many things. I need to understand the basics of poetry and to view works from different periods of time and people. I believe that is why this site is going to be so very helpful.