Further Poetry…

Proper blog update to follow but to stop it from being cluttered I’m going to post some more poetry I wrote in a separate blog thingy (how articulate I am!)

Anyway over the past month I have managed to write two more poems, it is a medium that I am enjoying writing in although I am aware that poetry can easily fall into pretentious  or just be plain bad so I am open and would appreciate some criticism and feedback so I can improve and such!

This first one I wrote about my friends after I had some really lovely times with a bunch of them over the past month, I can see how it’s incredibly schmaltzy but I try and make it aware of how sappy it is because it is expression of actual feelings I have:

An Ode To Friendship

This is for those whom I love platonically

So much so my heart swells at the mere thought of wasting my days with you

Please know that when you leave me I miss you

When I get on a train

When you get on a bus

When we part ways on your doorstep

I feel my heart twinge with sadness

Please know when we laugh and it falls silent it’s not awkward

When I run out of things to say

When you feel you’ve told me everything

When we both quietly sit and smile

There’s no other conversation I’d rather be having

Please know when we’ve got nowhere to go, nothing to do I’m not bored

When I say ‘What do you want to do?’

When you say ‘I don’t know, what do you want to do?’

When we both agree that nothing is fine

Because not doing anything is only fun with you

Please know that when everything seems bleak

When I don’t know what to do with myself

When you feel you’re going nowhere

When we both get stuck in our rut

You are the reason I carry on, what I am living for

So let me romanticise it eternally

Exaggerate it needlessly

Until I sanctify it blasphemously

Just let me say

I love you

Each and every one of you.

The next poem I wrote was after someone I knew’s younger brother tragically died, although I didn’t  know the person very well I really felt for him, made me think about if I lost someone close to me and how awful it would be! It mostly made me think about how strange death is and how bereavement is simply one of the worst things human’s can go through!

To Those Who Have Lost

How strange that death makes us feel the most human, most alive

How strange we may realise how much you meant to us, did we take you for granted?

How strange we lose sleep over you, when you’re at rest

How strange that it makes us question our mortality, why is it so forgettable?

How strange it makes us think who deserves to live, and who deserves to die

So we’ll take our favourite drink

We’ll raise it to the sky

Toast how much we miss you

Shed the tears from our eyes

Try to get things back to normal

Try to kid that we can get by

Find some way of coping

Though we feel it’s pointless to try

So if things ever seem quite ‘normal’

And you feel you’re off our minds

Just notice how we’re still a little bit broken

And you’ll know your still on it all the time.

Again I think it takes itself too seriously but I guess it is about death, but still I quite like it I wrote it free hand with no planning as you can probably tell so I like that it was a genuine stream of emotion and contemplation.

Next time I will post my poems as I write them along with any other writing I do, it’s just as usual, I just haven’t had time (translation: too lazy) but I’m definitely going to make the effort from now on because I really do enjoy it!

anyway till next blog post,

Wes out!

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