Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Shine

A few months ago I went to the Shine.  It's a little club for local artists and poets,I read there.  It was my first time and I had to drink a few beers before I got up to read.  I think it went well, I was there with my class so I know I was not alone in my bad poetry.  Thanks to all who listens and did not mock as we were all nervous.

Two of the poems I read there:
(based on a black and white photo of my mother and her friends in a photo booth)
Yellow gapped teeth
Surrounded by two red snakes
Obscure 
The horn-rimmed owl
Peeking through cold pillars.
A coy confidence
Hides behind a priests collar.

Mousy haired girls play
Silent games,
Vying for attention
When they step into 
The box.



Secrets Poem

Critiqued,
Slowly walking to my death.
It makes me uncomfortable.

Sitting in my chair, 
Insides displayed,
Invasive, intrusive.

Hiding behind my hair
Reading, shaky voice, 
Quivering leg.

Still .……….listen.
Broken and bent.
In my death they 
Gave me 
wings.



Prickly Pomme Poem

Okay so poetry today.  I wrote a very bad poem about an ex.  It started last night before I went to bed and confessed that I missed him, to myself, even though it's been years and years.  I know he never felt strongly for me but I still think he is one of the best people I have ever meet.  I like unique and offbeat and he was that indeed.  I find the more "off the beaten" path you are the more interesting.  As I have grown older and been around many different people I have come to cherish the ones who stand up and quietly shout that different is not all that bad.  I, over the last few years, have began to be more choosy in my friends.  Okay enough of the over the top anthem of "individuality" alas the very bad poem:

The first time I saw you
   a blond mexican
     standing
       surveying
I, the chubby redhead
   staring
      stumbling
We glanced at each other
    i forgot
Next time
    same sequence
But
    i remembered
       you cut your hair
Coupled eventually
    mostly not but some
Different world
    you were the center of mine
        i was a stranger in yours
When you left
    the cuts appeared
Scars are my memories
    of times that have past
         a bloody mess
    till
         white rippled old and ragged
    forms morphed
a reminder of time
crescent shaped
     you gave me
         in a wrestling match
vertical ones
     I gave
         myself
             when you found her.

It is actually a few more pages so I think I won't be so personal now, after all I do not know who is reading this.

Call me stalker or appreciative,

MM

P.S. I spell very badly!!!!
P.P.S.  <3XOXO