Week 4 blog for 2-10-09

This week I attended a Cal Poly Pomona open mic night session. It is held every Thursday at the Cal Poly Pomona down town center(Gallery). It is a relevantly new place that attracts many poets across the Inland Empire. It is a very nice and dark place perfect for poets to come and show case there talent and be surrounded by people that love and enjoy poetry. You have every type of poetry you have the rappers the meaningful and sympathetic poetry, poetry about love and many other things. This is a perfect place to escape from life at least for an hour or two, and while you escape you listen, learn and love.
Even though I am not a poet myself I enjoy listening and being surrounded my a room full of poets. It is a warm feeling, it makes me feel as if this were a second home in which no one judges you for who you are or what you think. When people step up to the microphone they seem as they are nervous but as soon as the first word comes out of their mouths they seem happy and free as if they just escaped from prison after fifty years. Even though this place is a poetic sanctuary it is still only a place a place in which people feel at home and are not judged, a place of poets.