this is what you want?
this insanity.
this chaos.sink my teeth in
an apple from the tree
on a cold fall day.the entire world
in the drop of spittle
hanging from my chin.
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22Jan
Tags: drew laplante, observation, poem, poetry, world
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28May
i can see the pieces
though pieces they remain
yearning for whole
still
the frustration in
this brokenness is
overcome
by the beauty of each piece
and knowledge of the challenge
and promise that lies ahead
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12Feb
i promised i wouldn’t write you a poem – i lied.
i apologize – prose does not suit you
you are a poem not a paragraph
grammar has no place in your definition
your hair owns the wind that blows
crosses off the t’s and dots off the i’s
your eyes fragment my hardened tendency
structuring the sentences of feeling
your lips rewrite the rules that govern
they forget to write out 17
and i am lost in your poetry
no commas to tell me when to pause
reading further and further
i could never write a poem like you
but i could love your poemi’ve been organizing my life over the past couple days and stumbled across some of my old writing. this poem is from my junior year of highschool. hope you dig it. live happy!
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18Dec
winter freeze sets in.
optimism its victim,
trapped beneath the ice.trees of industry
crashing heavy to the ground-
cacophonously.houses built on sand,
monuments to mankind’s greed,
blown into the wind.we’ve taken stock in
false constructs for way too long.
lets blaze our own trail.in the wilderness,
our trademark has always been
ingenuity.be ever hopeful
together we’ll discover
life in harmony.with strengthened resolve
the whole of humanity
will walk in the light. -
13Dec
where did you come from?
the universe, he whispered
through the silent snowfor some inexplicable reason, i’ve recently found myself on haiku-writing kick. well, maybe its not that inexplicable, i’ve been using twitter–a social network/micro-blogging service–and haikus lend themselves to the 140 character limit. that coupled with the fact that i’ve been mildly beating myself up for not writing much poetry anymore.
there are some haiku variations, but traditionally they’re three lines: a five syllable line followed by a seven syllable line by another five syllable. usually they incorporate nature and lend themselves to the changing seasons. here’s a few of the latest:
snow-covered boughs hang
evergreen in time and place
forest through the treeswe spend so much time
glued to the computer screen
nature will calm uswinter rain falling
today’s battles lost it seems
much colder than snowon katy’s birthday
brilliant muti-colored lights
shone for her and friendswinter skies can’t mask
incredible energy
springing from insidegive it a try! capture the way you’re feeling, what your seeing, or what you believe with 17 syllables. the boiling-it-all-down is therapeutic and the result is something that will remind you of an exact moment in time. let me know what you come up with, it would be most excellent to receive haiku comments on this one… life is poetic, live happy!!
other links:
haiku wikipedia entry
my twitter profile
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