| Random Poetry |
| in my life I've had too many sleepless nights; too many dreams of para-dise. I stuffed towels under my doors to keep the reality from seeping in it's dusty here and too morose I think I might fall out my window one of these days, and take to the sky. the ground quakes under my feet here. I think I've forgotten what it was that used to hold me up. -10/24/05 |
| The Swan Princess Poem Poem based on the story of Swan Lake. Slightly confusing at parts. It's one of the few poems I've ever written that rhymes. So...that's something. |
| Dizzy An older poem, hideously free verse but still breathlessly effective. (Try reading it to yourself out loud quickly, and you'll see what I mean by "breathless.") |
| Sleepless Title's pretty self explanatory. I couldn't sleep, so instead I wrote this poem. |
| Cheap Motel Another sleepless night, in an entirely different setting. |
| If you made it past that, you can handle some of this. |
| First Heartbreak Five-stanza ghazal expressing the emptiness of heartbreak. |
| Resolution A Sestina. Don't really have a good summary for this. |
| Ink Run A poem about...um, writing poetry. |
| Last Resort Stand Because growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be. |
| Finding Yesterday This is me saying good-bye to high school. |
| It's A Good Thing We Have So Much Media Censorship These Days, to Protect our Kids From all the Violence. I think the title pretty much says it all. |