August 2011
84 posts
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dear younger self,
Don’t wait until you’ve messed up before you decide to change. You know that what you’re involved in is wrong. You know the people you surround yourself with it detrimental to your growth. Do something about it. You’re the only one that can control the people around you and what you do. No one else can influence you to finally act. And you already know it isn’t going...
July 2011
162 posts
tjisawsome:
Let me tell you something about your girlfriend. I used to like her. I liked her for reasons other than her outer appearance. It was her personality that actually made her cute and likeable. I tried to win her over, but she just couldn’t see me as anything more than a friend. Like every girl that has rejected me, I was upset. I found out that there was more to that rejection than...
Sonnet XXV by Pablo Neruda
joshuabrandonbennett:
Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among objects:
nothing mattered or had a name:
the world was made of air, which waited.
I knew rooms full of ashes,
tunnels where the moon lived,
rough warehouses that growled ‘get lost’,
questions that insisted in the sand.
Everything was empty, dead, mute,
fallen abandoned, and...
I'm a gentleman at heart. But most girls don't...
looking back.
In a few years, we’re going to look back at ourselves and laugh.
We’ll laugh about why we acted this way and thought that we were so cool for thinking certain things. That’s the nature of growth. We mature and all the big things seem a lot smaller and all the things we never paid attention to become our focus. We grow up. Everybody does, as much as some of us may hate it. That...
Saddest Poem ~ Pablo Neruda
whisperedverse:
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.”
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.
She...
productivity.
I find that most of the time, I become a lot more productive or driven when people set standards for me. When people expect me to reach a certain level, I become a lot more driven to exceed those expectations. I admit, it’s not a good thing to get used to because I should always be striving to create the best product that I can or put in the most effort I can muster. And as of late,...
giving up.
Sometimes, it doesn’t mean that you’ve failed or that you’re weak.
It means that you are mature enough to realize that all the effort in the world can’t change the outcome and any further work is futile. When it dawns on you that it’s out of your hands and hang it up for all that you’re getting out of it.
Or it might mean that you recognize that somewhere out...
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How did the hipster burn their mouth?
They ate their food before it was cool.
i don't understand music now.
Kreayshawn is categorized under hip hop for chanting “Gucci, Gucci, Louis, Louis, Fendi, Fendi, Prada. Basic bitches wear that shit so I don’t even bother.” Makes sense.
Nicki Minaj is telling a generation of girls to aim to be “bad bitches”. I admit that she has presence that stands among the top female emcees and a cadence to match, but the voice switching and the...
I've gotten really good at saying a whole lot of...
Got you thinkin' that I'm easy to read. But you...
angel.
Probably my favourite piece that I’ve ever written. Took the better part of a week to write until I was finally happy with it, the search for perfection. But I’m proud of it. This is going to be one of those pieces I’m going to love performing. Again and again.
wordsinajar:
She has eyes the colour of raindrops. Violin strings for vocal chords And a laugh like sunlight fighting through...
“A while back a former gang member came to our church. He was heavily tattooed...”
– Francis Chan
bucket lists.
Personally, I’m torn on the concept of a bucket list.
I know it’s a list of things you want to achieve or accomplish before you kick the bucket, be it finding a cure for cancer or having a bare handed wrestling match with a polar bear. But on one hand, you could just be setting goals for yourself that you might never reach. And in that case, you’ll look back on that list one day...
Quite relevant.
emilyliuu:
I’m sorry that i’m not one to express a lot of emotions especially through my body language. I’ve been conditioned since I was little to behave in certain ways because it made my life a lot easier for me and the people around me.
Show no emotion when I was hurt
To not show any feelings of happiness although it was what I felt
Show no reaction when someone yelled at...
reading.
It’s been a while since I’ve been this heavy into reading, so I’m dedicating this summer to doing so. Here is my reading list for the summer until I have read all of them. And then whatever I decide to add at the end. Re-read some old favourites and hoping I find a grip of new favourites to add to the list. Also, just in case anyone wondered what I was into reading and wanted to...
having Twitter conversations with your biggest...
I’ve talked to Rudy Francisco, Joshua Bennett and Rafael Casal.
I know they’re just normal people and they’re only celebrities in a small niche group, but it’s crazy how much they inspire me and drive me to get better.
And I poetry groupie a little on the inside every time.
every poet/writer can be classified under a...
I remember talking to a few friends, all poets, about how they think they write.
For the most part, we don’t really notice our certain writing style until someone points it out to us. Because to us, we’re just writing down how we feel or what’s going through our minds at the time in a manner that appeals to us. We may think that we’re just putting down unadulterated levels...
Words of a Poet Vol. III
Canadian poetry lovers and fans, if you were planning on going, the event was moved to August 5 and it will now be held at the ROM.
If you’re still interested in copping tickets, then Ibn Najeeb who is one of the performers and organizers of the event will be in Toronto tomorrow and the day after. That is Monday, July 25 and Tuesday, July 26. If you’re interested, text him at...
for you.
One of my favourite pieces to perform. This got me a co-sign from Marc Smith after I performed it at the Toronto Poetry Slam finals. Yes, Marc Smith. The man that invented poetry slams.
wordsinajar:
“So tell me a story.” That’s what you always said to me. And every time I would wish I could tell you about a girl. The first time I met her…it was awkward. And quiet. We were both in the back seat...
it's not writer's block.
It’s not settling for less.
For the last week, I’ve been writing the same poem. Could I have finished it any time I want to? Yes. But I don’t because I take pride in the final product and I want my newest piece to always be better than the last. I always dream that one day, I’ll write a piece that will be my magnum opus. And I have a feeling this might be it.
I refuse to...
