Creatures of commerce Dead expressions in their eyes Mindlessly shopping Buy bigger, better Advertisements everywhere Never good enough Quaint trappings of souls Lost on the road to nowhere O Suburbia Strings of colored lights Tacky ornamentation Battling neighbors Need for perfection Destroys holiday spirit And misses the point
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Some Pre-Christmas Haikus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, consumerism, haiku, poetry on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whistle Blowin'
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poems, poetry on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t usually write poetry, but I scribbled this out last night and thought I’d share: Whistle Blowin’ Everyday I see Trains pass, And I think about Hopping on, Like a traveler With a knapsack On his shoulder, To take me away From here.
A Spin on Frost
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poetry, Robert Frost on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t really get poetry. It’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t understand most of it. I don’t properly appreciate it no matter how hard any of my former English teachers and professors tried to teach it. I can say that I like a lot of song lyrics, as well as death [...]
