Just Some Poetry
Ode to Modest Mouse

Such an eclectic blend of note

Each album, a different band

and each song, a different album

-

Loud, quiet

hard, soft

long, short

-

living contradictions

giving my ears endless

topics to dream about

I like modest mouse. Not a great poem though.

Ode to Poetry

A release

a language

an expression

a way

-

to say what I mean

and mean what I say

and present it quite

aesthetically

-

universally understood

yet eclectic and limitless

I’ll never run out of 

poems to write

Some more poems that I had to write.

Ode to Biking

Fast

Going fast

Going downhill

wind brushing my face

reaching that valley, finally

starting back up the hill

working hard to move

pushing to the peak

the peak at last

resting a bit

start again

fast

I recently got a 24-speed Raleigh bike.

Coffee Cake

Why do they call it coffee cake?

It doesn’t taste at all like coffee…

It tastes like heaven.

Well, not all of heaven.

I hear it’s a pretty big place.

So like, that one hot chick

that you always wished would date you

awaiting you in heaven,

holding coffee cake.

That’s what coffee cake tastes like;

heavenly recursion.

I had just eaten some amazing coffee cake.

Coffee

The taste of coffee flowing down my throat

It makes my lips and stomach both rejoice

each drop is like a great symphonic note

That keeps me getting more without a choice

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You could say I’m a slave to this hot drink

but I don’t think that that is really true

Okay, I’ll say that I am on the brink

for coffee there is nothing I won’t do

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I come here 10 and 2 days of each week

which leaves me little time for other things

It could be I must change from being meek

and all the weakness that it seems to bring

-

Please help me get this monkey off my back

the strength to do so I do surely lack

A sonnet written while drinking a mocha.

Our Daily Patterns

Death and death

and death and death

and death and death

and life

-

It seems that we

will ever be

stuck in this tree

of strife

-

sad and sad

and sad and sad

and sad and sad

and gay

-

it seems too bad

we’re rarely glad

and always mad

all day

Playing with some rhyme things.

Why do we Live?

This world

this life

this pain

these scars

-

as proof

of life

and proof

of death

-

we live

to die

and die

to leave

-

the pain

of life

with death

now friend

-

we run

we hide

we’re found

and struck

-

no way

for to

escape

the whip

-

so smile

and lie

as if

it’s good

-

and try

to live

through the

next day

I wrote this after finishing watching Dead Poet Society.

The Trouble With Words

I will not give you my guarantee

for it is a madman’s promise

nothing is absolute in this world

except for the fact just stated

and that these words

will always be ridiculous

I wrote this in the middle of watching Dead Poet Society.

Perspective

This home

this land

is unfit

for life

I sit

and starve

watching crops

of rocks

grow large

and wide

for the taking

not for the eating

watching them eat it

the poison

the hurt

the boredom

they enjoy it

I spit at them

then I die.

Sometimes I feel like an outsider.

Ode to odes of odes

Such an eloquent concept

meta poetry, that is

you sir have written about writing

and I commend thee.

Just know I have one-upped you.

A tiny piece of doggerel I wrote.