Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Poems

31 comments:

  1. Mjollnir, Hammer of the Gods
    by: Brandon Wells

    The Thunder god Thor, my master
    I, his enchanted hammer
    We sail to the edge of the world
    To face the Midgard serpent

    The ocean waves crashing around us
    Jormungund must be near
    But my master is not afraid
    He knows the serpent thrashes in fear

    We ride to face the snake
    With Thor holding me high
    As Fenrir’s twin charges, his jaws open wide,
    Thor sends me crashing into his skull

    The snake roars in unbearable agony
    As lightning lights up the skies
    Yet Jormungund does not retreat
    His hatred compels him to fight on

    My master does not show fear
    There is a reason why he is the mightiest of gods
    He send me, his hammer, flying at the snake,
    With me striking the serpent like a thunderbolt

    The serpent howls in pain
    Unable to stop his bleeding
    Jormungund makes his escape
    To heal in the ocean depths

    Enraged, my master and I leave
    To return to Asgard, home of the gods
    There, we plan Jormungund’s demise
    When we next meet him at Ragnarok

    For those unfamiliar with Nordic Myths:

    Thor-God of thunder
    Mjollnir-Thor's magic hammer, narrator of poem
    Midgard-The Nordic name for Earth
    Jormungund-The giant serpent that lies at the bottom of the ocean surrounding Midgard, the twin of the wolf Fenrir
    Asgard-Home of the Gods
    Ragnarok-Also known as the Apocalypse, the end of the world, and the beginning of a new one

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  4. How can you fix something born broken?
    by: Hannah Eason

    Skyline,
    soles welded to window shaped pavement
    you are decadence, like devotion, that's irrelevant

    Sunshine,
    submerged in thick black velvet,
    renounces the claims that you will one day repent

    Entwine,
    strength fades as blazing color announces sunset
    you never come to life, at least you never fake it

    Moonshine,
    in mine your eyes resemble wet parchment
    faster, faster pupils stab like bayonet

    Grape Vine,
    vitiating worm to molded sand footprint
    it's the ocean's foam that's aiding your torment

    Resign,
    breath catches as trial is infinite
    so fragile and thin as you're handed your sentence

    Decline,
    dissent from your mouth is ripe like a Muscat
    descent from acropolis, proclaimed with a whimpered cry..

    That screams for benevolence.

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  5. This Thing They Call War
    By Adrienne Flippin

    The gunshots sound, right over my head whisk the bullets
    I hold onto my pistol and pray to survive
    It’s funny how you find God on the front lines

    The enemy’s separated from me by twenty feet
    If I dashed across, would they murder me
    Or embrace me as a brother

    The world spins around this battle we are fighting
    Bombs explode, sending us all diving for the ground
    It’s the worst kind of existence

    I think the killing has made me insane
    I’ll go home in a straitjacket or a body bag
    I won’t be discharged with my mind intact

    That soldier, he’s like me
    We would each pull the trigger and kill the other
    We both had lives before this thing they call war

    Uncle Sam forgets his men
    God has turned his back on this sinful act
    We are playing in the Devil’s playground now

    It’s so loud on the battlefield
    I miss the quiet Carolina days I loved
    Sunshine on my face and wind in my hair

    Across the way, someone throws a grenade
    My comrades tell me to duck but I’m tired of ducking
    And it’s finally quiet

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  6. A Day In the Life of Norman the Rabbit
    By Adrienne Flippin

    What a horrible day, thought Norman the Rabbit
    He had reverted back to his old habit
    Of a gluttonous love for carrots

    The luscious orange-ness was calling his name
    Now Norman lowered his head in shame
    Eating in moderation had its merits

    He glanced over at his exercise wheel
    To Sally the Rabbit, he wished to appeal
    But he wasn’t a buff bunny

    He walked over to the fat-burning machine
    He ran for a moment and was covered with sheen
    He collapsed in his cage, feeling quite funny

    Norman made himself a nice little bed
    Into the shavings, he buried his head
    As he settled for a nap instead

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  7. Black Car poem
    By: Andrea King

    Black Car

    Imagine a black car
    Always alone from a far
    Black is the color that makes me so blue
    Sometimes I wonder why I feel like the flu
    All the fear I have makes me so dull
    Just wanting to live a little until I’m full
    Every time I’m out of gas so empty
    I just want to be used and feel like plenty
    The weight of the car
    Is the pain in my heart
    And who is the tented window who can’t see
    Well that tented window, and black, heavy car is me

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  8. Lost

    I sit in my room cunfused and disturbed
    What happened to me, my life will never be the same
    I never thought it could happen to me the way it did
    I got lost in the woods, I was so scared
    You can't see anything, just darkness
    And you hear strange noises coming from everywhere
    There's nothing you can do but try and find your way out
    Wondering for hours and hours but getting no progression
    Going in circles, round and round again and again
    When you're finally free you feel great
    You pray to God it never happens again

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  9. Cause & Effect of Road Rage
    Speeding and weaving from on lane to another lane
    Trying as hard as can be to get somewhere
    Trying not to hit a car is a tear
    Cars going slow drive me really insane
    It makes me mad, makes me want to tear brains
    These cars are driving me mad but I don’t care
    This will all be over once I get there
    Cars aren’t a big deal I have a cane
    I hate walking it makes me really mad
    They took my license I am furious
    In a really strange way I am alright
    When I walk around I seem very glad
    But on the inside I am furious
    Not having made me really want to fight
    Posted by Marcus Demery

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  10. Sammy the Fish

    Sammy the fish swims,
    which is good since he's a fish,
    and lives in the sea.

    Sammy the fish swims,
    swims all around the deep blue,
    even past the sharks.

    Sammy the fish swims,
    he swims to the beach and shore,
    all around our feet.

    Sammy the fish swims,
    his muscles never wear out.
    He's never tired.

    Sammy was swimming,
    and he swam into a rock.
    He hit his head hard.

    Sammy doesn't swim,
    he can't anymore because
    his head hit too hard.

    Sammy doesn't swim,
    he walks, which is weird for fish.
    Sammy the fish walks.

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  11. The Class Of 2009
    To the class of 2009 we can all say that the past four years of high School has been something else to us all.
    From the first day of school and walking in as Freshmen.
    That first year was the opening eyes eras.
    Being called fresh meat .
    Bowing down to the seniors.
    Learning new faces and making friends.
    Being taught the difference between 8th grade and 9th grade.
    Adjusting to the life of high school was overwhelming but getting lost was worst.
    Sophmor Year.
    That secound year was a little better than the first.
    Drama to our knecks about boys/girls and freindships.
    Seeing old friends and teachers.
    Knowing our way around the school.
    Having better locker locations.
    More maturity levels from us.
    Junior Year.
    That third year was our close to end era.
    We took our SAT and ACT test.
    Wondering where were going to go for college.
    Guidance councilor calling you in for class schedules.
    Making better grades,studying more,and having more responsibilities.
    Learning the difference between childhood and adulthood.
    Now l come to our SENIOR YEAR.
    Which is our last and final era into high school.
    Having freshmen bow down to us.
    Underclassmen looking up to us for advice.
    Juggling School,Jobs,Family,Friends,Senior projects,Boy friends/Girl friends.
    Looking forward to college and your major.
    Missing all your best friends and favorite teachers as well looking forward to the future.
    And what our life expects of us as we go on our way to adulthood.
    Our four years of high school became the the years of knowledge .
    Growing into fine woman and men with futures that are bright.
    l would like to thank the teachers and administration but most importantly our families for sticking it through even when we were being butts and complaining the whole way through.
    Thank you for all the LOVE and SUPPORT.
    And l would like to present to you and welcome the class of 2009

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  12. I lie there in the grass daydreaming
    As the birds sing and the bees buzz
    Before it all happened
    Now I'm just thinking about how life was
    It's like I knew something bad was going to happen
    Now my brother is dead, all because of the bloodz

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  13. As the breeze of the wind brushes against my face
    I took a wift of the air
    And got the taste
    Of flowers mixed with garbage
    I look to my rigt in haste
    And saw some art
    So I went to Wal-mart
    And I could still smell garbage

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  14. Your skin is like a blanket
    Covering the earth with your softness
    It's only a matter of time before the sun will remove you from the ground
    The kids have fun pouncing on you and tossing you around
    You cause cancellations in school
    You leave us to wake up to you
    Even though you go away
    I'm sure you'll always come back some day.

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  15. "Thunder Wakes Shudder"


    Slow tide strolls in, no concern for the passersby
    Footsteps fade, feet sink in glass colored sand
    Dim moonlight brings everything to a stand still
    The water navy blue, sand glass white, shadows thunder black
    “Don’t you wish we could live in black and white?”
    “Wouldn’t you miss the sea?”
    “She’d always be there fading in and out.”
    “What color would she be?”
    “Black isn’t really a color.”
    Dismal minds lull with lullaby
    Complex minds ponder, collapse on themselves.
    “Don’t you wish we could fall asleep?”
    “I’d rather not be like all the others.”
    “But we could dispose of all weariness.”
    “I’d rather not hide behind the covers.”
    “We could be safe, okay.”
    “We’d wake up to the unexpected, it wouldn’t be real.”
    The skin of innocence glistens in moonlight
    Shadows ripple over breakable ribs
    Pure, evil, pure, evil, pure, evil
    Lips mouth the words
    Why can’t we just be okay?
    Then tremble silently
    Hands stiffen ache, in the chill of glass colors
    Sit in the glittering sand
    The waves send strength…
    Then just fade away
    She waits for the return each time
    Fixes her gaze on the illusion of transparent hope
    Wonders how someone can justify murder
    Loves how shadows caress her body
    Counts grains of sand, diamonds
    Measures the echo of every heartbeat
    Floats from one thought to another
    The recurring one being
    “Please don’t fade away forever.”
    Strains for the next echo
    Holds her stomach, afraid of spilling herself to the sea
    Closes her mouth afraid of taking her breath
    Hands stroke her hair, jumpstart to another heartbeat
    Gasp then quick to inhale, too late
    “Are you apart of me?”
    “Yes.”
    She sobs, trying to push out the oxygen.
    Trying to hold in on herself
    she’s left in echoes, in patterns, in memories

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  16. Football and War

    Both of us prepare for the special day
    Both of us wear armor and protection to keep us safe
    Both of us hope the next day we can sit and pray
    Both of us read the Bible to improve our faith
    Both of us are nervous but we dont want to say
    Both of us try to remember our technique
    Both of us will be mad if it decides to rain
    Both of us hope to earn the victory we seek
    Both of us are aiching with pains and sores
    Both of us think friends and family are real important
    Both of us rest from falling and falling some more
    Both of us ask how and why we were involved in it
    Football is the name of my game
    While to my cousin war is the name of what is not a game

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  17. Desperate Heart By Catherine Grizzle

    ( comparing a heart /sailor)
    Desperate heart pled disguise
    when I cannot hide makes me adore more
    What I feel inside in despite my door
    Tears behind my eyes knowing in surprise
    My desperate hearts capsized
    shipwrecked by fear
    Into a bright sunrise
    It's there I escape the heart in prize
    Like a snake in the sight, silent
    Of ships in the night sailing on
    a lost land-scape
    Far away

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  18. One New Work
    You don't Know
    You see my face
    you watch my gaze
    you see my minds in another place
    you wonder whats taken me so far away
    But you don't know what i've been through
    you don't know what i have to go home too
    you don't know what keeps my angel face so blue
    You don't know do you?

    Just another dayit fades away
    you ask me why i never stay
    i turn to you and you listen as i say

    You don't know me
    you don't know what i could become to be
    you don't know the hidden meaning

    you just don't know
    evertime goes by
    I start to wonder why
    I'm so sick of seeing you cry
    it makes hurt so bad i just wanna die

    i don't know
    i just don't know
    i wish you'd let me in so i could see
    i wish you'd just confide in me
    i'll be right here
    waiting near
    All you have to do is let me hear

    One day i'll know
    One day it'll show
    One day it won't matter anymore

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  19. Revised Work
    Time to Meet
    The wind chills highit cuts through my skin
    Blue-Gray skies show throughthe bare shaken trees
    Snows hidden on the groundcrisp leaves lay dead and forgotten
    Awinter rush against my backChills embrace down my neck
    Is being here always so cold?
    Always so alone?
    An unspoken pressure of lonliness
    It's all left unsaidTears frozen in time,
    regrets linger
    An unknowing silence
    Is it always this cold here?
    Leaving questions without answers
    Riddles without questions
    Brisk winds dance on wispers
    I must know
    I stand to hear
    Waiting,listening
    Untill she blooms'and reaches nearI
    'll quietly ask her
    is it always so cold here?
    As cold as ice
    Her warm breeze touches me
    But no answer was told
    I guess I'll never know
    why it's always so cold.
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  20. Sitting here, thinking of you,
    I'm detached,
    no longer a part of this earth.
    I am floating in nothingness,
    Oblivious to everything.
    I can't feel anything.
    Every touch I make, every move I make,
    Futile.
    I can't feel a thing.
    The only thing I can feel anymore
    Are the feelings I have for you.
    Why these feelings came to be,
    I do not know.
    But what I do know;
    These feelings,
    They can't stay dormant any longer.
    They must express themselves.
    And they won't change.
    These feelings are a part of me now;
    A part of me, like my arms or legs,
    I have grown accustomed to them,
    Just as I have grown accustomed to you.
    If these feelings leave, then it means you have left,
    And you if you're gone,
    I no longer have the reason to live.
    These feelings...
    You,
    Keep me bound to existence,
    Keep me alive.
    Without you,
    I would be nothing.

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  21. Life

    Fire upon the never ending stars
    Wish upon all the ones that aren't far
    And happiness will come your way
    Hopefully it will stay,

    Each time you look away at the sky
    Each time you ask your self why
    Remember who are and what you want to be
    So the mirror reflects exactly what you wanna see,

    You have to find your way through it all
    Getting up every time you fall
    Pretend you really care
    Pretending life is fair,

    You have to open doors that are closed
    Cover the feelings that are superimposed
    Making new friends when you really don't
    Love them when you really wont,

    Say something you don't mean
    Tear open the never ending seam
    Just do get in that shining light
    When in reality, you'll lose the fight.

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  22. We Make Our Prisons

    What do we know except what we're told
    Whether it be lies or truth, it's all we have to hold
    What choice do we have but to trust

    I've been traveling these roads for a while
    And I've yet to find a reason to smile
    Alone with the scenery

    Our little homes, we think they're everything
    A twist of fate and they're nothing
    I'd rather be a traveler

    We created this illusion of security
    It's all about society and family
    So eager to imprison ourselves inside four walls

    But I'm not buying in
    I'm not about to settle down and win
    A lifetime of quiet regrets

    Disown me if you must
    If you can't understand my wanderlust
    Live inside your lies

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  24. Rapunzel
    by: Hannah Eason

    She braids a rope
    Made out of angel hair
    And a demon's stare
    Secure and fastened
    amongst lipstick and napkins
    She holds a rope
    Made from kisses
    Where God should have covered his face,
    And Jesus asks
    And Jesus asks her
    "Why do you love tempting fate?"
    She throws a rope
    From a tenth story window
    Waiting for her princess
    To deliver her from sorrow
    And her father
    And her father asks
    "Why can't you see reason, what's safe?"
    From the window, she can't part her gaze
    "There's no love in reason, nor heart in what's safe.
    Everything I am is twisted into this braid."
    Her father turns away
    With a tear,
    With a tear in his heart.
    And she waits,
    And she waits,
    And she waits.
    And the world asks
    "Why won't you move on?"
    And she reaches out the window
    "Because my princess is coming,
    she's coming for me,
    in ten years or twenty,
    it's her love I'll keep."
    And she grabs the horizon,
    pulls it in.
    She'll waste her life,
    determined not to forget her.

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  25. As Long As I Live


    Despite these irriversable feelings for you,
    You will never feel these same feelings towards me.
    I'm just another friend, who,
    one day, will be completely forgoten,
    no longer in your thoughts.
    I'm not one of the important staples holding your life together at the corner.
    Someone else is already the permenant glue, with no solvent able to tear you apart.
    What is this Hell you put me through?
    Day in, Day out, I live my life for you,
    But it's the same every day.
    The fiery pit, suffocating me, fading into oblivion...
    Your voice, sweet as honey.
    Yet the words spoken, sharp as the stinger on the producing bee...
    The stinger can never be removed from my heart; it just gets deeper and deeper, day by day.
    Maybe one day it will eventually go out the other side, to leave forever.
    I will long for this day for all eternity.
    I will wait until the stinger is ejected from the back of my heart
    For As Long As I Live.

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  27. Perfection, precision, perfection,
    Angels can speak.
    That’s what he kept telling me, just without words,
    And I believed him
    but he didn't know.

    Perfection, Precision, Perfection
    "I should do this the right way,
    And end just everything now," I would say.
    He would just shake his head,

    "Chance Chance Chance,
    That's all you've been given girl.
    That's all.
    That's all."
    And our conversation would end there.
    That’s all he had to say.
    Angels can speak.
    And he did.

    Now it’s been endless time since I’ve seen him.
    And I haven’t spoken to him in quite awhile.
    Maybe I will, if I ever come across him again,
    And perhaps I will learn by then,
    When I don’t.

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  28. That man!


    As I walk through these gloomy streets
    I wonder of I’ll ever hear
    the beat
    Of his heart

    I lay on his chest
    Or is this just a test
    For me no for him maybe
    I have to detest

    This is pain
    Without a gain
    I cannot take it
    I must begin to fake it

    He is my dream man
    Driving away in that van
    But why do I not run after him
    Is this what love is

    Or is it just fear
    In falling to near
    I’m crying with yearning
    To see him again

    He is my life
    I am his wife
    But why the cheating
    It’s a mental beating

    Am I to blame
    For this dreadful shame
    For he
    Is not in love with me

    Just I
    Who will love him till I die
    Without Fail
    I’ll pay his bail

    For he will run
    Into that sun
    And to never again
    Pay me back

    He wants us to be divorced
    I feeling like I’m being forced
    I have no voice
    In this dreadful choice

    I stand
    I raise my hand
    Swear to tell the truth
    And sit in that dreadful booth

    I tell my thoughts
    My stomach in knots
    He triumphs
    And defeats me

    As usual
    I’m becoming delusional
    He’s my life
    I am his wife

    Now the ex
    Its like a hex
    I cannot escape
    The thought

    To believe it is wrong
    Like banging on a gong
    Strong, loud, powerful
    Everything he has in full

    He got my stuff
    With his big bluff
    I will start again
    In this journey of life

    As I walk this gloomy street
    I cant fell me feet
    Maybe I’m wrong
    But I feel defeat

    He has beat me
    Once again
    The people come
    I face that power again

    I pay his bail
    Without fail
    And he still run
    Into that sun

    But I’m done
    With no fun
    I want a life
    Not being his wife

    I have won
    Cause that gun
    He’s gone
    But I never did it

    It was her
    She was the murder
    The words I spoke
    Were like deadly smoke

    She looked for mercy
    I had no mercy
    She took him
    From me

    Without my permission
    She had taken my ambition
    I loved him
    No matter his condition

    Now I face life
    Without him
    I’m going on
    Doing no wrong

    I can do it
    I’ve got wit
    He’s by my side
    Paying my back

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  31. Seeping through my fingers, blood red,
    Powerful resentment cannot be easily contained.
    You say I’m not capable of such feelings,
    But I think you don’t know me as well as you’d like to believe.
    I openly repudiate you,
    and suddenly I feel strong enough for vengeance.
    You don’t like one bit of this.
    Explicit and precise, rage colours all things red in your eyes,
    But my ire turns all a deep, hemorrhaging shade of vermillion.
    I am proud,
    And I am out for blood.

    I quip, hitting hard and fast;
    “My apostasy may fuel your fire,
    But your frequent absurdities burden you.
    You are determined, but weak.
    And though your vain efforts may get you so far,
    Your vanity will ultimately be your demise.”
    Unmoving, you stare blankly;
    I know it’s all for attention.
    I continue, drinking in your awe with great mirth.
    “Was your life not good enough for you?
    Undermine my credibility, go ahead.
    Only smooth sharp lies take shape in you;
    I can see it.
    I hope you choke on your words.”

    You shoot me an incredulous, silencing look
    and my anger dissolves for a brief moment.

    Pulsing, twitching,
    Adrenaline stifling all sense,

    I begin to fear who I’ve become.

    But fear certainly can’t extinguish this,
    Nor can it adequately restrain me .
    There is no stopping this spontaneous combustion.
    No, I’ve tasted blood now.
    Let the frenzy begin.

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