I Found You!

This si actually a really cool idea. In my grade 12 english class we did "found poems" while reading The Stone Angel. Found poems are created by taking quotes from another piece of writing and creating a whole new poem. Part of the assignment in this case was to create a poem to better explain a theme of the novel. Enjoy!

At the Cemetery on the Hill

April 2011

Rigid as marble I sit

At the cemetery on the hill

I try to pray

But I’m damned

Neglected

A throbbing pain in every part of me

A cold memory before I’m on my way down the steep slopes

To be swallowed by the night

I’ve gone beyond

I’m dead

Until Then

April 2011

I’ll meet it when it comes

But I’m not weary at all

You never know what’s going to happen to you in this life

I knew the chance I took when I began

May they not come to the place where sun and shadow mingle

I’ll not sleep a wink tonight they’re greatly mistaken

I’ve taken matters into my own hands

Barricaded against the dried blood red and the shadows on the sea

I’ll be an escaped convict an angry shadow

Until at last I rest 

Emo o.O

This poem is the product of the Writer's Craft course it took in high school. The idea was to write really bad, angsty poetry and follow other guidelines set up by the teacher. This is what I came up with.

Echoes of Sorrow and a Scorching Bane

October 2010

Wallowing in my own self pity

I was alone in this broken city

In hidden chambers I did mourn

Into sorrows I was born

And now the horror of shattered dreams

Rip my soul at the seams

Burning tears of maiming pain

Echoes of sorrow and a scorching bane

Crimson gashes shatter my wrists

Hidden shards in shadowed mists

Sheltered from the outside world

From the goodness I was hurled

Into irate pits of fire

Thrown away from my one desire

For someone to show that they care

For someone to notice I was there.

What Was That You Said?

This poem started off inspired by life experience and then grew to follow a very cliche line of thought. You will soon understand what I mean but, I still really like how it turned out :)

I thought you said you loved me

January 2011

When we were sitting on the beach

Staring at the ocean

Cuddling under the moonlight

I thought you said you loved me

When we were walking down the path

Under the branches of trees

On and on, hand in hand

I thought you said you loved me

When we were laying on the roof of your car

Staring up into the stars

Thinking about what we could become

I thought you said you loved me

When we were laying in your bed

Staring into each other’s eyes

After you’d taken the only thing that can’t be given back

I thought you said you loved me

When I was standing on the sidewalk

Looking back at the door I’d just walked through

The door to the past, the door to you

I thought you had said you loved me

I thought you said you loved

All those times we’d been together

Was I hearing things,

Or did you lie?

Imagination, Mystery, Facade.

Double post today! I really wanted to get this one up. I just can't wait. This poem is actually recent :) Not too much to say about it so I will not waste any more time.

The Mask

December 2011

To rest, to rest

With heavy chest

And feel the way I feel

The confusion stirring in my head

My tears may break the seal

To bed, to bed

To rest my head

To dream of what I dream

The mysteries within my mind

Some that will make you scream

To sleep, to sleep

I’ll take a leap

To see what I can see

The horrors just behind my eyes

Hope they never come to be

To wake, to wake

That smile is fake

I’ll hide all I can hide

But underneath this pretty mask

I’ll suppress what I hold inside

The World is Truly Obscure

This poem was written as an excersise in surrealism. I found it really hard and when I had first wrote it I wasn't all that impressed. Now however, I am quite happy with the way it turned out and I would like to share it. Enjoy.

My World is Upside-Down

January 2011

The rainbow flavoured drops fell up from the ground

And the flowers that grew from the sky

Were a lovely sight to my laughter burned eyes

My mother would have loved this.

She will never smell the colours of the grass

Or see the scent of the breeze

She will never taste the softness of the earth

Or touch the sweetness of the clouds

She has left me surrounded by the wispy shadows of death

And alone by the sun beams of life

My mind so confused

Yet I’m seeing so straight.

I continue to fly along the well beaten path

My feet dragging across the ground

My finger tips touched the cotton candy clouds

Leaving blood running down my arms

Slowly sinking into a dark oblivion

Shards of diamonds slice at my feet

Leaving eviscerating cuts on my wrists

Where now my heart spills out.

She has gone and I am surrounded by the wispy shadows

Alone among the darkening sun beams of life

I can finally think clearly

But my vision has faded.

I can no longer see the daisies

I can no longer feel the rain

I can no longer see the falling sun

I can no longer feel the flowing breeze

I can only feel the dripping blood

I can only see the crimson streams

Soon I will see her loving face

Soon I will feel her loving embrace.

My world has been turned downside up

But soon it will be right-side down

And soon the sun will shine

And the moon reflect its light.

Larks still bravely singing fly...

So this was meant to be posted a long time ago, like over a month ago. I wrote this spur of the moment so i had something to put as my facebook status tht wasnt cliche. Its a poem for rememberance day. Nothing else to really say about it so here it is...

I Don't Remember

I don’t remember

The sound of bullets whizzing past my head

The sound of my comrades screams and moans

The sound of mines exploding

I don’t remember

The searing pain

The laboured breaths

The dripping sweat

But I do remember

The lives given for my freedom

The pain of losing those close to us

The ones still out there fighting