High School Poetry: The Joust

“Slash!” swings the sword, silently by my side.
Dodging and parrying just doesn’t…
“Swoosh!” slides the spear, right by my head.
If he doesn’t stop, I’ll…
“Slam!” sails the club, on the ground at my foot.
Where do they all come from?
What happens now determines my fate.
Life or death, as unhappy as it sounds,
Are the only outcomes.
“Crash!” says my sword, [...]

High School Poetry: Euphoria

I want to go outside today,
But all the dirt has turned to hay.
Instead I walked o’er to the mall,
To ride a nickel pony.
I laughed out loud when faced with chance,
The stinking pony just wouldn’t dance.
Instead I skipped out to the field,
To please the laughter that I feel.
Unfortunately that field was hay,
So I could [...]

High School Poetry: Brave New World

“We are on the horns of an ethical dilemma, and to find the middle way will require all our intelligence and all our good will.” -Aldous Huxley

Brave new world,
I suppose I would call it.
Living today, twice as long as yesterday,
Fearing today, thrice as much before.
Cloning, growing, and just plain fixing,
Could be used [...]

High School Poetry: Death’s Day Off

I understood the value of sticking to a job,
Myself being quite a grave man,
But sometimes one just needs off.
Unfortunately, though, when souls hang around
Instead of dropping like flies, things go wrong.
Whoever dreamed that keeping people around
Could make an icy-hot earth?
Whoever would’ve dreamed that the war would’ve started,
Or that the president would have done that?
Certainly [...]

High School Poetry

I’m cleaning out my junk in preparation for a move into an apartment with a girl. Tonight, whilst cleaning out a draw, I came across some random high school papers. One of them was a packet of poetry I had to write in AP English. It made me chuckle to re-read them, [...]