Poetry

Well, starting in high school, I had this habit of writing poetry from time to time. That sort of continued into college, but it's not something I've done in a long time.

The octothorpe and folly of the elven general still make me laugh. The others I'm a torn about. I've decided, despite my first impulse to omit poems I don't like anymore, to present to you all the ones I found. They are some sort of representation of who I used to be. The list below is in reverse chronological order.

• octothorpe (February 2000)
  This poem is inspired by that greatest of ascii characters...
• The folly of the elven general (February 2000)
  This is "An Interpretive Dance in Verse Form" ... a creation from during an art history class.
• Lend Me Your Ear (1994 or '95)
  The word "moin" is a german slang word that just kinda means "hi" ... beyond that i've little to say about this one.
• 14 meaningful words (and one other) (1994 or '95)
  This one involved me trying out different things. oh, and girls.
• Confusion (1994 or '95)
  girls (and their tendency to ignore me) definitely had something to do with this one...
• Opposites (1994 or '95)
  chances are i was obsessing over some girl or another when i wrote this...
• Nonsense (1994 or '95)
  fun with words...
• Poem (1994 or '95)
  In search of inspiration...
• The Bee (1994 or '95)
  I seriously don't quite remember what I was thinking when I wrote this, but I know I was not suffering of any skiing injuries.
• Abbreviations (1994 or '95)
  There was a certain point early in my high school career that I this sort of "loss of innocence" experience... I had up until that point naively assumed that my schoolmates were all as well-behaved as I was, but all of a sudden I found out that more than half the people at the school were using drugs of some form or other.
• A Hymn (1994 or '95)
  I still really like this one, I had some fun playing with ambigous sentences. This also seems to be the first poem that actually had a message other than "i like to go skiing"
• Untitled (1994)
  Yet another poem inspired by my love of skiing.
• Powder (1993)
  This is the earliest poem I can remember having written. It was an assignment for the english class I had with Dave Rothman. I was supposed to write a poem to express some kinda feeling, and this was during my first winter in Crested Butte, so skiing was something that made me very happy. This kinda kick-started the habit, as it allowed me to discover that I could express my feelings through words...