PlaceHolder: A.D. May 8, 2019

This is a special one. Sort of in the same vein to my poems Float and Before School, this is a bit of a word painting(Thanks Macy) of how I felt on a certain night. Again, if you just want to read the poem without context and just take in the piece feel free to…

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Too Many Animals: A.D. May 2, 2019

I don’t really know how to explain this one. It’s a bit of a doozy. I wrote this a couple days ago and it just sort of happened. Think surreal Lewis Carroll but really not. I can’t think if a way to describe what this is but you know, you should probably just read it….

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Stabiae: A.D. May 2, 2019

To leap off my last post, this is another poem I wrote while in Italy. This one was at a villa in Naples overlooking Pompeii. It was owned by a wealthy family who were affected by the eruption even though they were a significant distance from Vesuvius. Now it is a historic estate that can…

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The Fountains at d’este: A.D. April 24, 2019

To bring my blog back to a happier note, this poem is about an experience I had whilst in Italy. In the little city of Tivoli there is a great villa with vast expansive gardens full of fountains. I toured most of it and it was one of the best places I have ever been….

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Heavy: A.D. April 10, 2019

I feel bad putting up yet another dark poem, but this is just how I’ve been feeling, and it’s all I have been able to write about so I’m sorry if it’s a lot. I’ll try to post something more cheery next time. But at the present moment, this is what I feel.   Heavy…

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Two Roads: A.D. March 28, 2019

Greetings again everyone. This poem was for an assignment in my creative writing class. The assignment was to create a poem of at least 25 lines that begins with the famous opening line, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” to Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. Anyway, I thought it was a fun assignment and so…

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