Friday, January 31, 2014

Winter's Snow


It’s been a while since I was on here. What, two months and 29 days? That’s more than a while, that’s almost a century. The thing is that I had been preparing for college, so I haven’t been on here like I was before. But it’s okay. It’s rewarding in its own right, I guess. I’m in college now, Seton Hall University just so you know, and it’s been exciting, thrilling, and terrifying all in one. But I think I’ll be able to adjust in the next month. The commuting I’ve been doing is difficult because I come from New York City and have to travel all the way to New Jersey by way of two trains, New York subway and NJ Transit. It’s been heavy on me for a while now and I still find the schedule of the NJ Transit hard to understand.

Anyways, let me write a poem for you guys:

Winter's Snow

Earth’s Crystal Tears,
I guess I should call it
Ever pure, ever white, ever peaceful
Ever flawless
Tears of Joy,
They really are
Tears of Glee,
Thus by far
I don’t really know how to express it
A happy planet is a wealthy planet
No, I can’t really have you guess it;
Shame on me for all of my limits
On choice of words
I can’t get it out
No words to describe it
As I sit here and pout
A poet,
Am I? No, I can’t be
Expression, expression
No, I can’t be, you see
All I’ve been trying to say is
How much I truly love
Earth’s Crystal Tears
From the Great Sky above

 

            It’s been pretty cold out for a while now, no huge snowstorms or anything. But snow and ice is everywhere from the quick snowstorm we had last week. I really just wrote this poem for fun, so it probably seems sloppy. I usually take a lot more than 20 minutes to do a simple poem. A poem is not unlike a story; you still have to edit and voice your opinions and concerns and yourself in to YOUR work. And 20 minutes never gives you enough time for that. I didn’t have to sit here and write this poem in 20 minutes. I could have sat here longer, but people need their beauty sleep, right? I really, really don’t consider myself a poet as the poem declares. I am more of a humble writer than I am an experienced poet. It’s just that I like poetry and may even introduce my poems to my club on Monday to see how they respond to it. I have a hard time getting my words out when it comes to rhyming, but I like rhyming much more than free writing just because I like the rhythm in the verses. Anyway, I hope it was good enough. Thanks for reading :)

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