I am trying to understand some of the things that seem to change as you grow older. I am not sure why I take interest in these things of vanity – but I do – good or bad. I don’t want to give away too much – enjoy!
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Everyday Poems
Poetry can be a mythical creation that comes at times unexpected. Sometimes it is just a plane old everyday experience. I am currently exercising my writing every day as a way to grow and understand my own writing and inspirations – as a poet and a songwriter. Somedays are just like this poem – just a simple reflection about the things around me with no real deep inspiration, other than the commitment of writing. I hope you enjoy this “Everyday Poem”. Cheers.
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Cup of hot tea
Time for reflection
Nothing better
Than late night detection
The mind wanders
Fingers write
Thoughts of the day
Lead to the night
Trying to grow
One line at a time
Creating poems
Words whisked together
Hoping they shine
Adjectives and verbs
trying to find the right words
Behind these eyelids
Simple thoughts will serve
For the next idea
Will be stolen from the day
Spoken in words
Elicited from what we say
Some nights are inspired
Others the normal kind
Putting the pen to paper
Just doing it every time
In hopes of growing
Achieving something greater
I needed it in my life now
My world would be different
If I waited one second later
Through poetry I have found
What resonates my life
Notes that resound
The soundtrack of my days
Is written in these lines
In these pages
It is me that I hope to find
When eyes become heavy
Sleep bound
I pull up the covers
Close my eyes
While the world spins round
Wonder
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This is a song about how my mind seems to wonder at all times. I have a very curious personality – and I feel this song really captures the way I feel sometimes. Enjoy!
Light and Meaningless
This is just a piece written out of inspiration after watching a documentary about a pop star that has had her “big break”. I found the most ridiculous part of the movie was how they talked about her writing had developed her vocabulary. Then they showcased this horrible song overusing mediocre simile. So I have some simile thrown in for effect here and how ridiculous it is to claim that good simile can create good poems. It can help, definitely, but I believe there is a lot more to poetry and learning how to write than that. On top of all of this, she still co-writes all of her work with major hit writers. So lets not get over zealous with how much she is doing. Anyways – RAWK!
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Heartbreak
Why does every song have to be about heartbreak
As though what you say
Has never been said
The book that was written
No one actually read
Or took any time to look it over
Over and over
My stomach turns listening to stale bread
Filling up the holes in my head
With words so light and meaningless
Where is the controversy in all of this
But a love song will sell
It will land you on the charts
That is all you should care for anyway
Get charted make some dough and roll away
I have no appetite for that no calling for swooning
My heart cannot be pulled anymore by this
Songs about how ones hearted is wounded
Do I really have to be relatable and and marketable
At what point does all of this become a song
Whether I seem to have it right or have it wrong
I can debate this question all night long
When my eyelids glue open to ceiling above
There is no point to this all when push comes to shove
The feelings fall like honey down a wilted tree
I used the word honey there
Isn’t that so creative of me
I have no calling for simile or rhyme
I just try to create what I feel I can call mine
A concoction of words so bitter and so timid
Just the flesh of a peach left when it is pitted
Try to make something small everyday
Quick painting of what is going on around me
To look back one day and truly be able to say
The meaning was left in the heart of the words
There truly is no right way
A Poem on a Poem
This was some late night scribbles. I am not quite sure if I translated some of the scribbles correctly – had they been different maybe this would be more clear and concise, hard to say. Interesting none the less.
A Cup of Songwriting 