May 2013
21 posts
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Cats
Little lap kitty
Purring on top of my lap
My tiny blanket
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My Impression of 'The Great Gatsby'
Tobey Maguire
My shining knight in the midst
Of unlikeables
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After much frustration and writers block, I've...
The comeback begins
Counting syllables trumps rhyme
Haiku, my real home
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Ukulele
Ukulele tunes
Laying on sand dunes
In my mind’s eye
My melodies let me fly
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Quatrains
I’m so sick of quatrains
They’re such a chore to write
I’ll give up soon
And restart with haiku some night
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Summer Vacation
First day off and I’m loving it
Sleeping late and seeing friends
Lazy days and late nights
I hope the summer never ends
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Bye-bye, freshman year!
The last day of my first year of college
Oh, what a year it has been
There were ups and downs and spins around
But finishing feels like a big win
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Thor
I was bored
I decided to watch Thor
They fought with swards
Bored no more
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I forgot another quatrain. :( I like haiku better.
I forgot to post again
Sleep deprivation will do that
Or maybe it’s that I don’t like quatrain
Haiku is a better format
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Mother's Day
I love my mother
More than most everyone
I wish I could spend today with her
Even if for just a short run
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Yet another poem about New York
On a bus to New York
To my favorite place
I get more excited
The faster we race
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Anxiety
What am I doing?
What’s happening to me?
Sleep interrupted
By late night anxiety
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Busy
The biggest assignment
Over the most chaotic break
Causing my confinement
Until I’m in this project’s wake
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Music
I know I should seek sleep
And dreams so very deep
But why go to the trouble
When music offers double
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Long Exposure Photography
Sitting in the dark
‘Bout to fall asleep
A flash disrupts my park
I almost fall out of my seat
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Long Hair
Split ends and static
Only one way to wear
But in the sun, so dramatic
I love long hair
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Brunch
Photo shoot first thing
Followed by brunch
Ignore the phone rings
‘Til after I munch
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Ukulele
Wasting time
Making rhymes
On the daily
Ukulele
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Café Art
New art at the café
Makes me feel older in a way
Old enough for art to come and go
As I march about to and fro
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Joints
I took a very long walk
Farther than the eye can see
It’s clear hips don’t lie
Because mine very clearly hate me
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Nap
Slipping into
A new routine
After three hours of info
I’m a napping machine
April 2013
29 posts
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Headache
Chronic mal à la tête
For chronological days
Ibuprofen and rest
Yet it never sways
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Lazy
Snuggled in a cozy cocoon
For most of the day since mid afternoon
Thought I’ve switched to dorm from bedroom
All the while wearing the same lazy costume
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Happiness
Whether your favorite band’s frontman just got married
Or you other favorite band’s live stream is about to air
Just remember no matter how gray the sky is
You can find some sort of happiness somewhere
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Joy
No work
It’s a first
In a while
With joy, I will burst
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The First Year
So long, freshman year
Before you I was full of fear
Now I’m an old pro at college
Reading books and absorbing knowledge
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When will finals week be over?
I don’t want to (insert task)
I’d rather lay here and bask
In the comfort of my sea of sheets
Not doing anything would be so sweet
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Nineteen
Lean, mean Final-test-taking machine Clean, green Today I’m nineteen
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I'm Getting Old
A little painful
Out of whack
There’s no sure cure
For an aching back
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More Poetic License
Last day of class
Almost over at last
But it’s bittersweet
‘Cause I’ve got finals all week
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Poetic License
It’s sunny outside
The birds are chipper
But I have to spend my time
Writing a long, long paper
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I have no power and it's a major problem
I’m frustrated with life
I just want to go home
Where I gave working outlets
And places to roam
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Sorry
I missed my quatrain yesterday
Because life is a mess
These assignments are killing me
I’m overloaded with stress
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Finals Week Approaches
Smacking baseballs
Out of the park
Putting my all
Into getting good marks
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Problems
My own problems
Are real problems
But they don’t seem that important when
Compared to problems where violence is the stem
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Defending My Midterm Grades
The last of my classes
Almost to the end
Along with the masses
I prepare to defend
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Sunday
Comforters and cats
Lazy Netflix Sunday
Curled up with snacks
Resting up for Monday
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Paper Writing
Papers are difficult to write
It’s like an internal fight
I’m straining to extract paragraphs
When I’d rather be out having laughs
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Gray Day
A light rain falls on campus
Soaking through each one of us
The perfect weather for a nap
Or reading or writing or exploring maps
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Humidity
The stickiness of summer
Months before expected
If I could control the weather
The humidity would be rejected
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The Misfortunes of a College Student
Some day I’ll write a quatrain
That’s about something other than sleep
But in order to think of anything else
My sleep will have to have been deep
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Tired
The fight’s almost out of me
I’ve got places to be
So I must stay awake
Until a nap I can take
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Swollen
Can’t swallow or talk
I choke when I walk
Why’d you come on this busy day
Sore throat, please, please, please go away
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3 More Weeks of the Semester
End of the weekend
But for a real break
The semester’s end will come
And for that I’ll wait
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Shy
Not as bad as I thought
Just wish I would talk
As much as my peers
But I’ve been shy for years
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I'm really tired this morning
9:09 when I started this poem
9:10 when I wrote the next line
Chances are if you write poems
They’re more creative than mine
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Ode to My Rhyming Dictionary
Quatrains without you
Would seem oh, so blue
If you weren’t around
How would they sound?
Disjointed and ugly
Real poets would laugh smugly
And I’d have even fewer readers
Than parking lots have oaks and cedars
I could always try free verse
But that my be even worse
Me just rambling on?
All my readership would be gone
So you can continue to help me rhyme
In my very...
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I feel guilty for never having explored the...
It’s National Poetry Month
And I’m starting to feel like a dunce
The number of times
I’ve written a rhyme
That is 5 lines long is…once
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Tests
Ache in the neck
Always present after
I take a test whether
It was a breeze or a disaster
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Doesn't Look Good
Rough night’s sleep
Please don’t be a bad day
Except I can’t hear birds cheep
And it’s gray, gray, gray
