tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18838197658238691082024-03-21T10:54:29.578-07:00(Mis)Understandings in LoveShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-69599019243447682272012-05-15T17:22:00.002-07:002012-05-15T17:25:49.990-07:00"You" By Julia Alvarez<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">You</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">By: Julia Alvarez</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I love how English has a single you,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">no tu, usted, no trying to figure out </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">where strangers ran in the hierarchy</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">of my respect: are you a formal </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">or familiar you? No asking permission</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">or apologizing if I get it wrong. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I love the true democracy of you.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The pampered son of the dot-com millionaire</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">or the coal miner's daughter - all are you,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">united in one no-nonsense pronoun. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Comforting when I write because it means </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm leaving no one out, even a line</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">intended for an intimate includes</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">you, and also you. In this, my Noah's ark,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">everyone is invited and can board</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">in two or threes or singly - those unborn </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">as well as ghostly antepasados </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">who use to be usted and now are dust. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">At sea in mystery, we all became </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">human cargo down the generations. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Once you get used to you, all faces seem</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">to hold the face you love, and each child could be</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">the one you never had, each girl the girl </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">you use to be or who your mother was. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">You is inclusive like that Beetle ad where linebackers kept piling into a car - </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I forget what the point was, but I'd watch</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">and understand their yearning to be one.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Just as I once climbed into a second tongue</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and made room for me in its pronoun. </span></span>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-87257146166558636782012-05-15T17:13:00.001-07:002012-05-15T17:25:32.935-07:00This is My Heart By: Joy Harjo<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is My
Heart</span></h3>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By: Joy Harjo </span> </span></h3>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">This is my heart. It is a
good heart. <br />Bones and a membrane of mist and fire <br />are the woven cover.
<br />When we make love in the flower world <br />my heart is close enough to sing
<br />to yours in a language that has no use <br />for clumsy human words.
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">My head is a good head, but
it is a hard head <br />and it whirs inside with a swarm of worries. <br />What is
the source of this singing, it asks <br />and if there is a source why can't I see
it <br />right here, right now <br />as real as these hands hammering <br />the world
together <br />with nails and sinew? </span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">This is my soul. It is a
good soul. <br />It tells me, "come here forgetful one." <br />And we sit together
with a lilt of small winds <br />who rattle the scrub oak. <br />We cook a little
something <br />to eat: a rabbit, some sofkey <br />then a sip of something sweet
<br />for memory. </span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">This is my song. It is a
good song. <br />It walked forever the border of fire and water <br />climbed ribs
of desire to my lips to sing to you. <br />Its new wings quiver with
<br />vulnerability. </span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">Come lie next to me, says my
heart. <br />Put your head here. <br />It is a good thing, says my soul.
</span></h2>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;">
<h2>
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<br />Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-4140261756347700262012-02-14T17:52:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:53:58.662-08:00Love Poem By Louise Gluck<div style="background-color: white; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: #666666;"></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #666666;">Love Poem</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> by Louise Gluck</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is always something to be made of pain.</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your mother knits.</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She turns out scarves in every shade of red.</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They were for Christmas, and they kept you warm</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">while she married over and over, taking you</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">along. How could it work,</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">when all those years she stored her widowed heart</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">as though the dead come back.</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No wonder you are the way you are,</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">afraid of blood, your women</span></div><div style="background-color: #666666; color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">like one brick wall after another.</span></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-56629742848678669682012-02-14T17:48:00.000-08:002012-02-14T18:01:31.312-08:00Being Human (Freewrite)<div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaigemqqJ9lbrBeWj9iDGTJqVOrPiEW4TrojqM2P0ESIJEcvJEiE0C-f6LaE2rWnRpdlK_uZ6UznkgkTlNM-7kKUnjpFwZ6EuSFS813Il55T8Q6jRGrrVVTrveqfcgHChXPviZVjBLHI/s1600/DSCF3043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaigemqqJ9lbrBeWj9iDGTJqVOrPiEW4TrojqM2P0ESIJEcvJEiE0C-f6LaE2rWnRpdlK_uZ6UznkgkTlNM-7kKUnjpFwZ6EuSFS813Il55T8Q6jRGrrVVTrveqfcgHChXPviZVjBLHI/s400/DSCF3043.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">I prefer paper –</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">it burns with ease, </span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">floating away with the wind.</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But electronically ... </span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you can trace me</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">replace me, </span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and never have to face me.</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You've forgotten ... </span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What it feels like to be human.</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I prefer your voice -</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a sound I can identify</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The way that blue reminds you of the sky.</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we walk hand and hand, </span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the earth between barefoot toes in the sand</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Arms wrapped beneath mine-</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">we peered over the balcony</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">watching the sun set on the distant horizon.</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But those memories, have faded...</span></div><div style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your perception of love is simply - jaded. </span></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-80186598512485769982012-02-14T17:24:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:56:25.560-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmTucSH6LYkEb4B-vH5FqtDaHthfpw-rWcxwuq9cQmCFeZ2l90LKVZ7qcWagsTF5pyWIs8nHoWw-4uARoUl7KZ9SwfJHcwnHSRW80CrRf8bZaPn_jqaeyIZQMsLVf5eJXxYIt9iMtlE4/s1600/DSCF2376_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmTucSH6LYkEb4B-vH5FqtDaHthfpw-rWcxwuq9cQmCFeZ2l90LKVZ7qcWagsTF5pyWIs8nHoWw-4uARoUl7KZ9SwfJHcwnHSRW80CrRf8bZaPn_jqaeyIZQMsLVf5eJXxYIt9iMtlE4/s640/DSCF2376_2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-1684710514198541272012-02-13T17:52:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:59:09.517-08:00Because Love Battles By Pable Neruda<div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Because Love Battles"</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By: Pablo Neruda</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And because love battles...</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">not only in its burning agricultures</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">but also in the mouth of men and women,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will finish off by taking the path away</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to those who between my chest and your fragrance</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">want to interpose their obscure plant.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">About me, nothing worse</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">they will tell you, my love,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">than what I told you.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I lived in the prairies</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">before I got to know you</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I did not wait love but I was</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What more can they tell you?</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am neither good nor bad but a man,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and they will then associate the danger</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of my life, which you know</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and which with your passion you shared.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And good, this danger</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is danger of love, of complete love</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for all life,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for all lives,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and if this love brings us</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the death and the prisons,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am sure that your big eyes,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">as when I kiss them,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">will then close with pride,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">into double pride, love,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with your pride and my pride.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But to my ears they will come before</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to wear down the tour</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the sweet and hard love which binds us,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and they will say: “The one</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you love,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is not a woman for you,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do you love her? I think</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you could find one more beautiful,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">more serious, more deep,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">more other, you understand me, look how she’s light,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and what a head she has,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and look at how she dresses,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and etcetera and etcetera”.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I in these lines say:</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like this I want you, love,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">love, Like this I love you,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">as you dress</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and how your hair lifts up</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and how your mouth smiles,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">light as the water</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the spring upon the pure stones,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like this I love you, beloved.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To bread I do not ask to teach me</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">but only not to lack during every day of life.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know anything about light, from where</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">it comes nor where it goes,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I only want the light to light up,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not ask to the night</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">explanations,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wait for it and it envelops me,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And so you, bread and light</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And shadow are.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You came to my life</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with what you were bringing,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">made</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of light and bread and shadow I expected you,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and Like this I need you,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like this I love you,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and to those who want to hear tomorrow</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that which I will not tell them, let them read it here,</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and let them back off today because it is early</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for these arguments.</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow we will only give them</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">which will fall on the earth</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">like if it had been made by our lips</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">like a kiss which falls</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from our invincible heights</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to show the fire and the tenderness</span></div><div style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of a true love.</span></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-63625394526994247352012-02-13T17:32:00.000-08:002012-02-14T17:58:38.402-08:00After a While By Veronica A. Shoffstall<div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a While</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a while you learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The subtle difference between</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Holding a hand and chaining a soul</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And company doesn't always mean security.</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you begin to learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That kisses aren't contracts</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And presents aren't promises</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you begin to accept your defeats</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With your head up and your eyes ahead</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the grace of a woman</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not the grief of a child</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To build all your roads on today</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because tomorrow's ground is</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Too uncertain for plans</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And futures have a way</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of falling down in mid flight</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After a while you learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That even sunshine burns if you get too much</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So you plant your own garden</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And decorate your own soul</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of waiting</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For someone to bring you flowers</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That you really can endure</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That you are really strong</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you really do have worth</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And you learn and you learn</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With every good bye you learn.</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">~Veronica A. Shoffstall</span></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-31143739761404387522012-01-22T12:31:00.000-08:002012-01-22T13:10:13.055-08:00Artistic Poetry -Mizdi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtwp4OdBQkHzA8zZK7G5P7sP_paOHzhFUnKmnuaP8AGU2Y2BOGwYyEc7q2uHqNSN_E254T8avAF2CVP9jupvtzqEfAepjJP6BnF2_lhR3LC5-f3oLn4MwMHzAoURfh7W6K9mtCAyQQ7s/s1600/poem+pic+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtwp4OdBQkHzA8zZK7G5P7sP_paOHzhFUnKmnuaP8AGU2Y2BOGwYyEc7q2uHqNSN_E254T8avAF2CVP9jupvtzqEfAepjJP6BnF2_lhR3LC5-f3oLn4MwMHzAoURfh7W6K9mtCAyQQ7s/s640/poem+pic+1.png" width="489" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhBYlNC8CXLWoO2Tgh04T4hUsC6XtVURr0LagIUV5PLPbpudAd3nh6clPHBh79ZeKPZYQuXsS38dav13phn_lZNsK9H6qg52xPwfLbYFVlIsxNpdUhKdrPZWsbsq1zdHjrYmNLtJQMvE/s1600/poem+pic+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhBYlNC8CXLWoO2Tgh04T4hUsC6XtVURr0LagIUV5PLPbpudAd3nh6clPHBh79ZeKPZYQuXsS38dav13phn_lZNsK9H6qg52xPwfLbYFVlIsxNpdUhKdrPZWsbsq1zdHjrYmNLtJQMvE/s640/poem+pic+2.png" width="456" /></a></div>From: <a href="http://mizdemeanor.net/2009/09/27/i-carry-your-heart-cummings/">Mizdi</a>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-73879257155207140992012-01-13T20:20:00.000-08:002012-01-13T20:23:09.399-08:00Silence breaks the heartShe said, I love you.<br /><br />He said, Nothing.<br /><br /><br />(As if there were just one<br />of each word and the one<div>who used it, used it up).<br /><br /><br />In the history of language<br />the first obscenity was silence.</div><br /><br /><br />The Primer <br />by Christina DavisShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-37810363710021427672012-01-01T17:12:00.000-08:002012-01-01T17:19:48.714-08:00Pablo Neruda poema de amor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">I do not love you as if you were salt-rose or topaz,<br />or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.<br />I love you as certain things are to be loved,<br />in secret, between the shadow and the soul.<br /><br />I love you as the plant that never blooms,<br />but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.<br />Thanks to your love a certain fragrance,<br />risen darkly from the earth, lives darkly in my body.<br /><br />I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,<br />I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride,<br />so I love you because I know no other way than this:<br />where "I" does not exist, nor "you,"<br />So close that your hand on my chest is my hand,<br />So close that your eyes close and I fall asleep.<br /><br />-Pablo Neruda</span>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-25372085955211914822011-12-29T12:57:00.000-08:002012-01-22T13:03:31.752-08:00E.E. Cummings But... I Carry Your Heart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJAXbYOg-WbFitZNTDnDmt0T2JAPF_QT1bOVL5sDMXic4gKGnOGRBnyqeAgtNdTjnzOYKStLWlirp7Xr2z9Ne1WROIEZuf5IUznYA9V7hFlR5Z6ytqDPIWytPcn5ggnhnNo-rkDKU2_Q/s1600/ee+cummings+poem.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJAXbYOg-WbFitZNTDnDmt0T2JAPF_QT1bOVL5sDMXic4gKGnOGRBnyqeAgtNdTjnzOYKStLWlirp7Xr2z9Ne1WROIEZuf5IUznYA9V7hFlR5Z6ytqDPIWytPcn5ggnhnNo-rkDKU2_Q/s640/ee+cummings+poem.png" width="488" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-AjTQ-8ZhyrXTyjrBDYKtptWh9x_GUqowqoQ-4KM5jIgl0GtKx20IXOD6nIWu-KMIIiZB0zzl8d59UwKYvEGclHTr2mzCrxIC3EoSPyNoVlcBDE3NcxG_L9a03-j_38_lNiPbyNoPPE/s1600/ee+cummings+poem+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-AjTQ-8ZhyrXTyjrBDYKtptWh9x_GUqowqoQ-4KM5jIgl0GtKx20IXOD6nIWu-KMIIiZB0zzl8d59UwKYvEGclHTr2mzCrxIC3EoSPyNoVlcBDE3NcxG_L9a03-j_38_lNiPbyNoPPE/s640/ee+cummings+poem+2.png" width="494" /></a></div>From <a href="http://mizdemeanor.net/2009/09/27/i-carry-your-heart-cummings/">Mizdi</a>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-39324600032587056912011-12-24T13:14:00.000-08:002011-12-24T13:16:46.556-08:00Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">This is a word we use to plug<br />holes with. It's the right size for those warm<br />blanks in speech, for those red heart-<br />shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing<br />like real hearts. Add lace<br />and you can sell<br />it. We insert it also in the one empty<br />space on the printed form<br />that comes with no instructions. There are whole<br />magazines with not much in them<br />but the word love, you can<br />rub it all over your body and you<br />can cook with it too. How do we know<br />it isn't what goes on at the cool<br />debaucheries of slugs under damp<br />pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-<br />seedlings nosing their tough snouts up<br />among the lettuces, they shout it.<br />Love! Love! sing the soldiers, raising<br />their glittering knives in salute.<br /><br />Then there's the two<br />of us. This word<br />is far too short for us, it has only<br />four letters, too sparse<br />to fill those deep bare<br />vacuums between the stars<br />that press on us with their deafness.<br />It's not love we don't wish<br />to fall into, but that fear.<br />this word is not enough but it will<br />have to do. It's a single<br />vowel in this metallic<br />silence, a mouth that says<br />O again and again in wonder<br />and pain, a breath, a finger<br />grip on a cliffside. You can<br />hold on or let go.<br /><br />By: Margaret Atwood</span>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-9245610165990650982011-12-23T22:39:00.000-08:002012-01-22T12:56:29.287-08:00Cityscape by Brandt Campbell<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8v5A_LJYCp7ypbyaOkFCoEYX3HAKe3inueg9aC8uNuWC9x2FFdwC82oDTpiJ6lGAjAfJleQmkO14o8uQniH2JL7hHg5JZOmicksKzFkx3lJPl6ZGQLEUfsyhzS1Nnrms-QY3cQOe9cA/s1600/Brandt+Campbell.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700560336368345922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8v5A_LJYCp7ypbyaOkFCoEYX3HAKe3inueg9aC8uNuWC9x2FFdwC82oDTpiJ6lGAjAfJleQmkO14o8uQniH2JL7hHg5JZOmicksKzFkx3lJPl6ZGQLEUfsyhzS1Nnrms-QY3cQOe9cA/s400/Brandt+Campbell.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 275px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<div>By Brandt Campbell<br />
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<a href="http://500px.com/photo/4332317">Via 500 Pix</a></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-1963943899768842202011-12-22T20:43:00.000-08:002011-12-22T20:48:53.835-08:00Love by Gwylyn Cane<span ><b>love </b></span><div><span ><b>by Gwylyn Cane</b></span></div><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><span >there should be one hundred words for love</span></div><div><span >just as the peoples who have lived in snow so long</span></div><div><span >have so many words for snow. love</span></div><div><span >can be cold. difficult to walk on. slushy. mushy. </span></div><div><span >it will trick you. betray. </span></div><div><span >it can fall so silently on you that it mystifies --- </span></div><div><span >soon everything is quiet </span></div><div><span >a blanket under which even the cold streets of your city </span></div><div><span >are warmed. clean. it can also sting. </span></div><div><span >invariably, it melts. often, then, it smells. </span></div><div><span >and each particle is different and you know no two </span></div><div><span >are the same, so never fear, lovely people, love comes </span></div><div><span > again. </span></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-52516886155903196212011-12-22T20:12:00.000-08:002011-12-22T20:15:14.865-08:00Nighttime Walk<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XUDgbsyVlfkev_FWJrqcWFsCBU8S9XXQBZUGbndXjuC9T5MJLIjcdHMRzVbF-StL05DFuG2aA2qkFa2r55mW8cOVA-80aMnyXJIiN4d_ZuD_T637JtPtF7K1qkkzK2FO2IMOzuHnxqg/s1600/DSCF4086.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XUDgbsyVlfkev_FWJrqcWFsCBU8S9XXQBZUGbndXjuC9T5MJLIjcdHMRzVbF-StL05DFuG2aA2qkFa2r55mW8cOVA-80aMnyXJIiN4d_ZuD_T637JtPtF7K1qkkzK2FO2IMOzuHnxqg/s400/DSCF4086.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689172211605558850" /></a>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-62134872902113616962011-12-22T19:54:00.000-08:002011-12-22T20:04:29.683-08:00Love at 16? Of Earthworms And You by: Todd VanDerWerff<div>OF EARTHWORMS AND YOU</div><div><br /></div>sun's misplaced in the universe<div>galaxies fade</div><div>and planets disperse</div><div>every day is dark and drab</div><div>find my pleasure in</div><div>science lab</div><div>gone from the hope of your embrace</div><div>i stop and find</div><div>myself emasculate</div><div>dissect and earthworm</div><div>with a knife</div><div>and strike a point for </div><div>animal rights</div><div>saggy ascus and liverworts</div><div>i'd buy you back</div><div>but i'm afraid</div><div>iwishiwere</div><div>Omniscient</div><div>(don't ask me what it means)</div><div>sweatsocks and urine overpower me</div><div>as i walk into the rancid heat</div><div>you fell for gelboy and his hair</div><div>davy crockett shot a bear</div><div>i loved you and you loved me</div><div>gymnosperms grow inch by inch </div><div>(i suppose you wanted atticus finch) </div><div>after all, gregory pecks a</div><div>hottie i guess)</div><div>disjointed ramblings </div><div>from a twisted brain</div><div>are all i have to hide the pain</div><div>in a perfect world</div><div>x always equals three</div><div>if memphis is in tennessee </div><div>overwhelm me with self-pity</div><div>as mormons move to salt lake city </div><div>(i was never very good at history</div><div>but i'm worse without you) </div><div>give gelboy all my best</div><div>as for me I remain</div><div>Obsessed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Todd VanderWerff, age 16</div><div><br /></div>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-2510617706379224392011-12-22T18:59:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:01:41.480-08:00Painting with Water Colors<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzvLEge6osQ11mNPorrvN2UnZ80geUjQUd3iHW-tD6N-JrUOgrIInaCzHaZoWH9h6n_sjNZ1zTyK8Y_PCbope9pY3cONRNKRD90KiyW-vlTp3dJRBB1LMSOzmlGqxJQpfWAXCZOLvxVg/s1600/LOVE+BIRD.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzvLEge6osQ11mNPorrvN2UnZ80geUjQUd3iHW-tD6N-JrUOgrIInaCzHaZoWH9h6n_sjNZ1zTyK8Y_PCbope9pY3cONRNKRD90KiyW-vlTp3dJRBB1LMSOzmlGqxJQpfWAXCZOLvxVg/s400/LOVE+BIRD.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5689153498194815042" /></a>Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883819765823869108.post-88378999450042620682011-12-20T20:03:00.000-08:002011-12-20T20:23:53.653-08:00Rough Draft 1 you and meIts this ebb and flow<br />and back and forth of what we know<br />to be right<br /><br />That mutual understanding<br />which doesn't have any groundings<br />in reality<br /><br />Because what I see,<br />you see differently<br />Or as you want it to be<br /><br />Moments turn into days<br />and what felt like just an ache<br />turned into a throbbing pain<br /><br />Five years has made few steps<br />towards progress<br />or what you'd even call a success<br /><br />Full relationship<br />of empty promises<br />and half lived dreamsShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521448109725952464noreply@blogger.com0