Keep on Keeping on
Have not updated in a while, I figure I should.
School has been extremely busy, trying to keep my head above water in both of my chem labs and my Microbiology lab has proven to be quite challenging(along with work and all of my groups and juggling time b/tw the dorms and the apt). However, with less than a month left in class, I need to just keep it up a little longer, then I might just not have to retake so many classes next semester. XD Oh well, it's my money, I guess I get out of it what I put into it.
For a break the other day I spent part of one of my hours off at the library doing what I most enjoy: wandering and picking up random books off the shelf. I found myself in the poetry section, something I hadn't indulged myself with for quite some time. After blowing the dust off a couple books on the bottom shelf, I found one by an author called Linda Pastan. There were a couple of poems that I was especially fond of, but one that struck me most was
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
AVARICE
They say Midas
died a ruined man-
you can't eat gold,
gold can't keep you warm.
But that's just
allegory, and anyway
times have
changed. Give me
that touch.
I'll take my chances.
PRIDE
I have swallowed it
and swallowed it,
but I am like the Whale,
I can feel my Jonah
down there, waiting.
When I spit him out
everyone
will take notice.
GLUTTONY
As I finish lunch
I am thinking about
what I will eat
for dinner, so
if I give you
the smaller portion
of dessert, it is only
because I am
preoccupied. Here
let's cover it
with cream.
LUST
There is a candle lit
between my thighs.
Come, blow it out,
you with the down
so new on your face
it could be a girl's,
though I saw the muscles quicken
under your shirt,
as my pulse
quickened when
you lifted the groceries
into my car.
SLOTH
The indolent sloth
had three toes
on each front foot,
a small mammal, slow moving
and from …
South America.
Since you ask,
I would tell you which country,
but I am too tired
to look it up.
ENVY
There was a green
silk scarf with gold
around the edges
that matched
my cousin's green eyes
flecked with gold.
Mother said mine
were pure merino wool.
Mother said never mind,
boys would want to marry
girls like me.
ANGER
You tell me
that it's alright
to let it out of its cage,
though it may claw someone,
even bite.
You say that letting it out
may tame it somehow.
But loose, it may
turn on me, maul
my face, draw blood.
Ah, you think you know so much,
you whose anger is a pet dog,
its canines dull with disuse.
But mine is a rabid thing,
sharpening its teeth
on my very bones,
and I will never let it go.
Linda Pastan A Fraction of Darkness
Norton, 1985
Otherwise, Cody has been getting lots of pretty new video games (the most recent one being Assassin's Creed) and making me quite jealous. XD I wish I had the time to go and beat all of them like that.... But no, I have yet to sit down a play Portal and the two Final Fantasy games I bought at a garage sale over the summer... and Legends of Dragoon(sp?)... *sigh* Maybe I'll have more time this summer.
^_^ Hope you all are faring well.
@--(--
School has been extremely busy, trying to keep my head above water in both of my chem labs and my Microbiology lab has proven to be quite challenging(along with work and all of my groups and juggling time b/tw the dorms and the apt). However, with less than a month left in class, I need to just keep it up a little longer, then I might just not have to retake so many classes next semester. XD Oh well, it's my money, I guess I get out of it what I put into it.
For a break the other day I spent part of one of my hours off at the library doing what I most enjoy: wandering and picking up random books off the shelf. I found myself in the poetry section, something I hadn't indulged myself with for quite some time. After blowing the dust off a couple books on the bottom shelf, I found one by an author called Linda Pastan. There were a couple of poems that I was especially fond of, but one that struck me most was
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
AVARICE
They say Midas
died a ruined man-
you can't eat gold,
gold can't keep you warm.
But that's just
allegory, and anyway
times have
changed. Give me
that touch.
I'll take my chances.
PRIDE
I have swallowed it
and swallowed it,
but I am like the Whale,
I can feel my Jonah
down there, waiting.
When I spit him out
everyone
will take notice.
GLUTTONY
As I finish lunch
I am thinking about
what I will eat
for dinner, so
if I give you
the smaller portion
of dessert, it is only
because I am
preoccupied. Here
let's cover it
with cream.
LUST
There is a candle lit
between my thighs.
Come, blow it out,
you with the down
so new on your face
it could be a girl's,
though I saw the muscles quicken
under your shirt,
as my pulse
quickened when
you lifted the groceries
into my car.
SLOTH
The indolent sloth
had three toes
on each front foot,
a small mammal, slow moving
and from …
South America.
Since you ask,
I would tell you which country,
but I am too tired
to look it up.
ENVY
There was a green
silk scarf with gold
around the edges
that matched
my cousin's green eyes
flecked with gold.
Mother said mine
were pure merino wool.
Mother said never mind,
boys would want to marry
girls like me.
ANGER
You tell me
that it's alright
to let it out of its cage,
though it may claw someone,
even bite.
You say that letting it out
may tame it somehow.
But loose, it may
turn on me, maul
my face, draw blood.
Ah, you think you know so much,
you whose anger is a pet dog,
its canines dull with disuse.
But mine is a rabid thing,
sharpening its teeth
on my very bones,
and I will never let it go.
Linda Pastan A Fraction of Darkness
Norton, 1985
Otherwise, Cody has been getting lots of pretty new video games (the most recent one being Assassin's Creed) and making me quite jealous. XD I wish I had the time to go and beat all of them like that.... But no, I have yet to sit down a play Portal and the two Final Fantasy games I bought at a garage sale over the summer... and Legends of Dragoon(sp?)... *sigh* Maybe I'll have more time this summer.
^_^ Hope you all are faring well.
@--(--