Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Random Poetry

Hey everyone. Been awhile since I made a blogpost huh? Lets end that right now. I've been taking a poetry class which is designed to basically help us write our own poems. So here's a few of the poems I've written so far, along with the assignment that prompted it.

This first poem was supposed to be written to someone, saying something that you couldn't really tell them to their face. I decided to have a little fun with it.



It was a good night


They killed your fish last night.

Not I,

they.

It was at the party we had

while you were gone.

We were taking shots

and dropping bombs

and turning the kitchen into a battlefield

when one of us decided

that your fish

wasn’t having

fun.

Before any of us could act

there we were

surrounding the bowl

laying it under siege

preparing to drop

one last bomb.

So we did

and your fish floated up to the top

in a jaeger filled dream



My second poem was supposed to be a highly descriptive poem. I struggled finding a topic, until I began to think about things I do everyday.


I do this, everyday

Hold them up, right up to your waist,

Acting like they’ve never been there before,

Pretending that they’re new

When in reality they’re your favorite,

Worn out white balancing the blue.

You snap them, watch it crack

Like a whip in front of your eyes

In a vain effort

To make them form fitting

Without a form to fit.

One step in,

It’s a delicate balance

Between the feel of denim

Brushing along your skin

And the pain of a desperate attempt

To pull out

Which is never in time.

Another step,

With that second foot

Poking through to the ground.

One last tug upwards,

To the left

And to the right,

In order to loosen out

Any inconveniences

Gained



My third poem was a poem that was supposed to be modeled after another poem. I choose the poem The Melon by Charles Simic as my inspiration. I'm not going to link to the original since I barely pulled from it, but it's a good read and Simic is a damn good poet. Look it up! This one's my personal favorite of the 3 poems I've written so far.


Strawberries


We would pick strawberries
every morning
in the spring,
until our fingers would glow
a soft pink.

We would shuffle
from plant to plant,
stopping
at all the reds.
You would brush the leaves aside
and whisper
Hello
to our newest prey
before one quick snap
would set our mouths
ablaze

The strawberries we now enjoy
together
comes wrapped in plastic
and lack any flavor
at all
except this acute taste
of cold


Look for more poems in the future :)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Mending a Broken Heart

“I still can’t believe you did this Harry. No, I’m not going to drop the subject. How do you go, and break our masters heart? Master spent so much time on it, perfecting it and turning it into something beautiful. And you had to go and break it. Now we’re stuck wasting away our Sunday morning trying to put these pieces back together. You know how hard it is to find a band-aid just for a heart? Sure they have them for cuts and bruises, but never for broken hearts. No, no, no, don’t give me any excuses. I don’t care how drunk you were at the party last night. You shouldn't have let that one girl anywhere near Master's heart. You know that Master only shows it to his love.Yes, I know she was a looker. No, I don’t care about how slimy her skin was. You shouldn’t have let her see it, much less let her hold it. It’s your fault she dropped it, not hers. Well you better be sorry. There’s not much we can do now except wait, and hope that Master is able to recover.”

Hangin' in there by Truffleshuffle

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Music :)

So one of my New Years resolutions is to write/blog more, so here's my first blog post of the new year. Just a list of bands I've seen and bands I want to see. Probably gonna update this list as life goes onwards.

Bands/Artists I Have Seen
The Killers
The All-American Rejects
Franz Ferdinand
Death Cab For Cutie
Sum41
Far East Movement
NeverShoutNever
Rise Against
Gym Class Heroes
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Mike Posner
We The Kings
3OH!3
Cobra Starship
Motion City Soundtrack
Jacks Mannequin
Hey Monday
Epik High
The Pillows
Noodles
All Ages
An Café
Chatmonchy
Alesana
Angels and Airwaves
Greely Estates
Horrorpops
Oreskaband
Reel Big Fish
Shwayze
The Maine
The Human Abstract
Neon Trees
Alkaline Trio
Anarbor
The Cab
The Summer Set
Laidback Luke
Markus Schulz
Dada Life
Wolfgang Gartner

Bands I Wanna See (before I die?)
Daft Punk
Linkin Park
Blink182
Deadmau5
Tokyo Police Club
Mogwai
Paramore
Foo Fighters
Freezepop
Dir en Grey
Big Bang (lol)
Brown Eyed Girls