Monday, June 30, 2008
Flying Free
The wind pulls at my hair No longer do I care I've discovered that I have this need to fly Sunlight reaches toward me Moonlight still adores me No longer do I have this question, "Why?" The answers lay before me The questions I've had toward thee All answered in a blink of this mind's eye My tears...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Damage Tone
Sometimes the silence is a cry for help Absence of life, the presence of something else How destruction is planned, scheduled and plied Should give us all pause for a lengthening sigh The seashores’ and rainforests’ once deafening cries Are muted and hidden behind damaging lies Where before there...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
The Limited Ones (Final)
Bloodshot eyes watch a cynical world Through the bright noise of a screen Their view of perfection tainted By the frames of the sick and twisted Drawn in and intoxicated, the masses are teeming forward Life by design insanity is happening across the board The world sacrificed for sale, an altar...
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Development of a Poem: The Limited Ones (Part IV)
Later that same afternoon (I told you it was coming to a close), I finally figured out the problem I was having with the pacing. I combined the stanzas, making every two stanzas one. This fit better with some of the original lines, and forced the reader to slow down in their own head. I was...
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Development of a Poem: The Limited Ones (Part III)
A little over a week later, I came back to my work in progress. I had some down time during a drill at work, so I kept rereading the stanzas over and over. Where there seemed to be a hiccup in the rhythm, I just pretended it was the end of the piece so far and let my mind fill in the blanks. The...
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Development of a Poem: The Limited Ones (Part II)
As the poem continued to grow, I started to get uneasy with everything that I was writing. I'd been anguishing over individual words for days. I thought it was close to being done, but not quite. I liked what I was writing, but I was afraid it might convey a feeling or message that I wasn’t...
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Development of a Poem: The Limited Ones (Part I)
Below is an excerpt of an e-mail I sent to my wife while on my way home on the USS Essex a couple weeks ago: I started putting some ideas together for another poem. I haven't got it to come full circle yet, but I think it's about what I don't like about television and American society in general....
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Development of a Poem: History
Several people recently have commented on a few of my latest poems and some of the comments I’ve left regarding how I write them. After some of the questions I've received, I thought perhaps it might be interesting to others for me to make a departure from just posting a poem and give a little more...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Limited Ones
Bloodshot eyes watch a cynical world Through the bright noise of a screen Their view of perfection tainted By the frames of the sick and twisted Drawn in and intoxicated, the masses are teeming forward Life by design insanity is happening across the board The world sacrificed for sale, an altar...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Palace of Youth
This morning I lighted upon a whim As I went and sat upon the old jungle gym It now calls to me from a different light Such a fanciful thing, colored and bright It's a palace of dreams that once stood in my mind But to the times that I've had I've long since said goodnight This castle before me now...
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