My Year of Writing Dangerously

On the spur of one of my (increasingly rare) moments of inspiration, I decided that in order to maintain my artistic integrity, and because I can't keep calling myself a writer for much longer without actually WRITING something, I am going to write a poem a day for the next year. The first poem will be posted on August 10, 2010 and the last poem will be posted on August 10, 2011. (Unless, of course, I decide to keep going.) Not all of the poems will be good, and DEFINITELY not all of them will be interesting, but I will gaze around my kitchen, my living room, and Coming Home Cafe until something inspires me, then write a poem about it, as well as my random thoughts on the mundane things that no one notices, but which it is my goal to immortalize over the course of this year.



Friday, October 22, 2010

Day 49 - Schooool

I wrote this for school and lo and behold it's actually pretty decent.

Blue Eyes
Her eyes in mine are blue as salted sea.
With depth and shine that shame an angel’s own.
Two oceans making her endeared to me,
tho’t seems to me this wings of falsèd tone.
As well her face is fair as pale morn,
a smile bright as early risen sun.
Between my sight and reason I am torn:
I wish to list to reason’s tight-formed bun,
but cannot do, for beauty o’erwhelms
my self and shows perfection in my love.
By sleep-drunk dream mayhaps by sight is helmed,
that makes me see such beauty, pure as dove.
So ‘haps it’s so that I have this contrived
and that her beauty’s just to me divine.

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