I worked by myself for 8 hours, which was awesome. I am proud I didn't ruin everything ever. I only made one silly mistake. Not so bad.

My sister picked me up and had a present for me. I closed my eyes, held out my hands, and received the Firefly DVD set <3333333333 ( Read more... )

She is like autumn ( Read more... )

Time curves patiently
And life changes with the moon
In the end we wait

I just spent 45 minutes digging through six old notebooks looking for one thing in particular. 18 words arranged from magnets on the refrigerator that made a poem I called "The Current". I remembered it after talking to a friend about the time we sat on the kitchen floor for three hours writing naughty things out of the X-rated magnets she had. ( Read more... )

Editing poetry is fun! (Really I'm at an impasse, and re-writing old stuff sometimes helps to break the block.) Some of this stuff I dug up in the back of my mind's filing cabinet. It's dusty, needs work, but I like ( Read more... )

I can see her. I did see her, but you never did. I wish you could. She was beautiful, tiny, filled with strengths I never knew existed. She had the darkest violet eyes, and the smallest mouth unless she was smiling. Then it consumed her face, and it was radiant. I remember going into her bedroom before school, after she had left for work, and ( Read more... )

My friend Jose (aka: Honey Mustard) interpreted my poem into Spanish for me.

She moves in rivers,
Ella se mueve en los rios,
Muddy lines of her body snaking through drought and dust,
Líneas fangosas de su cuerpo que serpentea a través de sequía y del polvo,
The dusk of a city's skyline glistening,
La oscuridad de una ciudad que esta brillando ( Read more... )

Not sure if it's finished or not, or what it's called yet, but here's the latest blurb I've regurgitated into some semblance of poetry ( Read more... )

So, an eventful two days it has been ( Read more... )

And what better night than tonight to start posting again? It's fantastic, really. I went to a kick ass poetry slam, hung out with many great friends and laughed and stayed up way too late. I feel like I'm in high school again, or something. Well maybe I should catch up on where I've been in the last two years. Life has been a crazy one, that' ( Read more... )