A Small Revision to "The Plan"

Okay. So I'm not actually going to get all the Sugarland poems done by tomorrow. (What a shock, right!)

So I'm moving the deadline. And when I say moving, I mean getting rid of. I don't actually think I need it. Having the songs as inspiration actually makes it REALLY easy to write like crazy. So they will be there, just not by tomorrow.

Days 39-46 - MORE Sugarland!!!!!

Here are the Sugarland poems I have written this weekend. Basically I gave myself the length of the related song to pump them out. As a result, they are largely quite bad. Oh well.

All I Want To Do
Laughing when we're lying on the floor
and sipping wine
and living high and fine with time for love and lust
and holding hands
and kissing lips
that's what I want to do with you

This next one sucks. But I reaaally don't have time to make it better.
It Happens

Some mornings when the clock strikes one,
the phone chirps too.

I answered with my sleepy moan,
Morning beast awake.

A crisis all the way at work
I have to go

It happens

I want to go back home
I need a nap

If only the day were over yet.
Where's the weekend?

It happens

I actually wrote this a while ago as a song. But it fits this Sugarland song so well that I'm using it.
We Run

Run

Until there’s no more ground beneath your feet

Run

Until you reach the end of the longest street

Run

Run as fast as far as long as hard as you can

And when you feel like you could never get up again

Thats when you run

They say i’m running away

But i’m not running away

I’m running to you

Into your arms

And i know that you might never take me

Might never hold me

But even if that’s true

The only thing left for me is to

Run

Until I feel the earth just disappear beneath my feet

Run

Until I can’t remember who you are

Run

Until I can't remember where you are

Run

Until I've run so far away I could never find my way back again

Run 

Joey

What if you'd said no?
What if I'd said go?

What if he'd held tighter?
What if I hadn't been a fighter?

What if your fear was stronger?
What if I had waited longer?

What if we'd given up?
What if patience had emptied it's cup?

I'd be sorry

Love
Love is stubborn
Love is loud
Love is angry
Love is painful

Love is patient
Love is tender
Love is kind
Love is healing

Love is long
Love is passionate
Love is needy
Love is greedy

Love makes fools of us all
Love makes cowards of the weak
Love makes stonger those who stay

I love Love

Genevieve
In the shadows of a broken hill lives a broken man.
He lies in frigid dark though in the sun.
A face is carved into the sight of his lost mind.
Her name is but an echo on his wicked tongue.

In the shadows of a broken hill lives a broken man.
Next to him there used to live a broken women.
Until the day she fixed her legs and ran.
And on that day he became a broken man.

Keep You
Two lives
One to have, one to hold
One to cherish, one to keep
One to touch, one to feel

Can we have two?
Can we have both?
Can we find a way to hold what we have? To keep what we cherish? To feel what we touch?
Can we find a way to remember the glory of the world?

Take Me As I Am
My shoes don't match,
I revel in attention,
Bad jokes make me smile, (worse ones make me laugh)
I'll always refuse to see the worst,
And I will never change.

I have a history,
a past and some emotional luggage.
My dreams are impossibly large,
my goals are unimaginably huge.
And I will never change

I know who I am.
I know what I want.
I know who I love.
And I will never change.

Day 38 - Want To

Ya.. I'm TOTALLY gonna get all the Sugarland poems done on time....

Want To

I want to see your face
I want to touch your skin
I want to kiss your lips
I want to hold your hand

I want to free your soul
I want to end his hurt
I want to stop this now
I want to relieve my guilt

I want to split yourself
I want to let you have us both
I want your utter happiness
I want my conscience silenced

I want to say "surrender"
I want to make retreat
I want to save my fragile heart
I want to swiftly kill my pain

I want to have you and to hold you
I want to seranade you
I want to dance with you
I want to love you without fear of retribution

I want to say hello
I want to say goodbye
I want to whisper in your ear
I want to scream my rage

I want to cry and sob
I want to laugh and smile
I want to let go of the world
I want to hold you for a while

I want to reach the future
I want this to be the past
I want to just move on, with you or without
I want to know your choice

I wanted you
I wanted not you
And one of those came true.

Day 37 - Something More

This is the first of my Sugarland poems. It's based on the first song from their first album. As I plan to do with all of these poems, the title is the same as that of the song.

Something More

There must be more to life than fruitless work
or no one right would ever in it lurk.

There must be more to life than pain and ache
or in the heat of it we all would bake.

There must be more to life than missing you
or from our cages all us would have flew.

There is so much more to life than that which pains
and in your eyes I find all suff'ring wanes.

There is so much more to life than being lone
Happiness is true when love and friends are shown.

YES!!!!

That's right. I'm back. And I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!!

In my opinion, the greatest musical act in the history of the Universe is Sugarland and they have a new album being released next Tuesday. In celebration of that, I will be writing one poem based on each song they have every released between now and then. All total, that is 62 songs (minus five that are non-original songs from their Christmas album, plus one of those that is awesome and not cliched (and yes that means they wrote HALF of the songs on said Xmas album-how much more awesome can you get!!!) also minus three that are duplicates from their live album, and including one that is actually a Brooks & Dunn song (Red Dirt Road) of which Sugarland did a cover that I LOVE!!)

For those of you not good at fuzzy math, I will have posted 55 new poems by next Tuesday. Not only will I be caught up, I will actually be 35, that's right 35!!!!!!!! (please imagine that those numbers are in caps, even though that isn't a real thing) AHEAD of schedule, which will give me some buffer room if i should miss any days in the future.

If anyone is wondering about the fact that I won't technically HAVE to write a poem EVERY DAY if I have that many extra, I say to you first, I still plan on writing as many days as a possibly can, and second the point of this project was not for me to force myself to write EVERY SINGLE DAY, it was to force myself to write MANY MANY days and produce A LOT of poetry. I will write MANY MANY days and will produce A LOT of poetry so this is NOT jeapardising the project.

Prepare yourselves, I WILL post some poems tonight!!!

Day 36 - Lasagna

Lasagna

You make me melt
just like hot cheese
and feel warm inside too.

A mix of everything perfect.
Cheese, pasta, sauce;
Beauty, kindness, affection.

And you feel like home,
to match the dish's taste.

But though I love lasagna,
I love you more.

Sick Leave

Just thought I'd mention that I am deathly ill and thus have not posted the last few days, in case anyone is still reading this and is wondering why I stopped.