Poetry

Poems mainly revolving around nostalgia, the passing of time and death, tragedy and cycles, false love and women, paradoxes, shadows and clouds, heavens and midnight skies, flowers – mainly roses, engulfing flames and undying wills, and the belief and non-belief of God.

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  • Abandoning ’tis Haunting SiteA poem using homophones — a poem on denials of love and attempting to “abandon this haunting site”
  • A Fairness That Can Neither Be Etched Nor Lyric’d – Regarding a beautiful lady who can not be described by words nor portrayed by painting. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But if no words can describe her, neither can any picture do her justice.
  • AF/CU
  • Always and Forever
  • Amusement Park A poem about a child at an amusement park — influenced by a friend T.L.
  • Annabelle LeeA poem on Shakespearean foolish young love and Poe’s Annabelle Lee.
  • Annabelle Lee ii.
  • Appealing to Loving EarsA mere simplistic phrase of how the undeserving always gets the fame, but the truly talented does not.
  • April Showers – Of Mays and YetsA poem on breakups and starting new.  
  • Audibly Olympus  – A poem on attempting to write a note to a “dearest maiden ‘cross thee great seas.” Note – Zues is the mighty god of the skies, Selene is the Greek Goddess of the Moon, Demeter is the goddess responsible for the seasons due to the loss and regain of her daughter Persephone, Four* refers to the four seasons, Aeolus is the Greek storm god, Hades is the god of the underworld, Neptune is the god of the sea 
  • Beautiful Evil – Reference to Hesoid’s *Work and Days* and *Theogony* where Zeus commands this beautiful evil to be created as a punishment for Prometheus’s crime as he stole fire from the gods and gave it to the humans. Pandora opened the lid of the jar containing all the plagues and diseases of the world which was inherited by womankind.
  • Because You Love MeA poem on the mockingness of love and the pains of heart breaking.
  • Be or NayA poem on living burdens yet we still fear the alternative – death.
  • Between Passion and ThoughtA poem on passion and thought — references to Hamlet’s internal struggle of whether to give into passion and act or stay in the realm of logic and never take action.  
  • Beyond Death – A poem regarding beyond death…
  • Blooming from the Ashes – A tribute to the Boston Marathon injuries and/or deaths and to their loved ones.
  • A Broken PenA poem on the loss of something valuable. A reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet as misfortunes coming as numerous events.
  • Centennial Sightings – A poem on the sighting of something rare, angelic, once in a hundred years. 
  • Clashing Thought – A poem on clashing thought. 
  • Cursed Shacklings – A poem on the stupidity of marriage. 
  • Cycle of Joy
  • Cyclic TragedyA poem on a cycle of tragedy and a facade of failures.
  • Dearest Father – A poem on wandering thoughts regarding facades, friendship, trust, and understanding.
  • Dearest MaidenA poem to a maiden of the name C.K.
  • Demons UnseenA poem regarding …
  • Determinations A’flameA poem on individuals having resolutions during the new years, attempting to carry through, eventually losing motivation and having their resolutions dissolved into nothing, until the next year.
  • A Dreaming RoseA mere phrase along the lines of “reach for the moon, if you fail you land among’st the stars.”
  • Faded Scenes and NothingA poem on the inevitable fading of sorrows in time  
  • Fair-burning FlamesA poem on how the passions of love is like a flame that also burns love itself – and on the memory-ghost.  
  • Fairwell Feelings – A poem on farewell fair feelings. 
  • Fall – A poem about falling in love.
  • For Death and ExistenceA poem regarding death and the truth of existence and the nature of poetry, which is much like the voice of the dead; reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
  • For I and U (Another Poem With More Words That Rhyme)A poem that tries to say I love you, but can’t.
  • For When Roses Turn to Snow, and Snow to HeavensA poem to a maiden in the name C.K. as a birthday gift.
  • From the Heavens to the EarthA poem on the misfortunes of human society.
  • Hindering DesperationsA poem on the perspective of time.
  • Graceful ShadowsA poem on facades — A reference to Shakespeare’s Macbeth — bloody hands which water can wash not, as Duncan dies at the hand of Macbeth.
  • Happenstance – A poem on happenstance. 
  • Harbors Past – A poem on harbors past. 
  • ImminenceA poem on abruptness.
  • Impeding HorizonA poem on never ending burdens and troubles that when solved resolves in yet another.
  • Intrinsic FateA poem on the uselessness of worship and prayer and the power of the belief in motivation and drive.
  • Josephine, the QueenA poem on the perspective of women towards themselves; the reflecting mirrors of bovinic figure, of beauty and reflection, the idea of mirrors influenced by a friend — S.F.
  • Just Words (Incapable)A poem on the impossibleness of saying some words.
  • The Last Poem I’ll Write For YouThe title is a reference to the artist David Cook’s song, “The Last Song I’ll Write For You” in which he says “The lyrics talk about saying goodbye to a chapter of your life. Just like a girl breaking up and closing a chapter in life…”
  • Liberating HeartA poem on the struggle to say some words.
  • Life’s Greatest ThingA mere discussion among’st the most important thing in life. Money? Wisdom? Knowledge? Love, etc?
  • Living DeathA poem mixing life and death. heath*  – a tract of level wasteland
  • Lonesome ThroneA poem on inevitable loneliness.
  • Lone Souls
  • Lostful SoulsA poem on lostful souls – a maiden trying to find herself…  
  • Luminant Darkness – Be someone else’s light and perhaps we can shake ourselves of our own darkness.
  • Masking Thee Truthful Face A poem on the wearing of so many masks that eventually one no longer knows what his true face is.
  • Memory’s Acrostic RetreatA poem on “memory’s retreat” – of how the mind resorts to cyclic thoughts of what had brought us to peace in the past – a feeling seemingly so true that we can not distinguish between wistful nostalgia or just an escape for peace.  
  • A Message With Cold FlowersAn embedded secret message is to be found…
  • Midnight’s DuetWritten by two persons; every other couplet was written by the same person.
  • A Missing GodA poem wondering where He is or if He is even real.
  • The Moon’s ReflectionA poem on the realization of loneliness.
  • The Morning Bird’s CallA poem on the beauty of nature.
  • A Nameless RoseA poem on the significance of a name.
  • Neither Acrossed – A poem on something acrostic. 
  • Our Greatest InventionA poem on the cons of technology.
  • Paths AlignedA poem on the remembrance of a loving time at which our paths aligned, inspired partially by the Youtube film “Strangers, again”  
  • Posterity and Their Hearts – A poem dedicated to someone that lost their mother recently – a poem that speaks of heart breaking loss and treachery, but with what darkness there is still a light, despite minute and dim. And alike a simple stream that flows and inevitably is engulfed to the sea, will too such love, care, and passion into oneself.
  • Pray’st Upon thee Stars A poem on the slight hope of forgiveness.  
  • Preamble to a Deathly QueenA poem influenced by a sign on a church saying “You do not have a soul, you are a soul and you have a body” – thus in death shall the queen shed her body and wander as what she truly is, a soul. A reference to a past poem by J.M.Wong entitled “Josephine, the Queen”.
  • The PursuitA poem on the pursuit.  
  • Remember: A Reflecting ReflectionOriginally an assignment for a college writing class where students are to reflect upon their semester’s work; written 2011. References to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Othello, an essay by Wallace regarding lobsters, a research paper regarding black hole, and the photo-essay of the events of 2011 at Amherst, where an unexpected snowstorm occurred. *A reference to Guy Fawkes Day, the fifth of November; he designed a gunpowder plot in hopes to blow up the English Parliament. “Remember, remember the fifth of November” It is now celebrated as an annual holiday in London.
  • Remembrance of Shakespeare’s HamletA dedication and summary of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” the tragedy of the witty prince of Denmark written in 2011 for a class journal assignment.
  • Reminds Me Of But Twin SeasA poem on … twin seas.
  • Rowing Towards the Double-Backed BeastA poem on one’s first time having sex. Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello – the beast with two backs refers to a pun that Iago is using to describe Othello and Desdemona’s sexual tendencies, described to Desdemona’s father, Brabantio.
  • Rudolph’s Fame ArisenA poem on facades of immediate friendship following immediate fame.
  • A Sailor’s KnotA poem on the hope of repairing past friendships — influenced by an old friend, R.M.
  • Setting SunA poem on the human facade of progression at the mercy of the destruction of the beauty of nature.
  • Shall Caged Birds Fly FreeA poem on some final thoughts before finally departing…  
  • Shell
  • Simple ComplexityA poem on the paradox of simplicity and complexity in the heart.
  • So Dearest ChangeAn essay on the impossibility of change.
  • A Stubborn Undying WillReferences to old idioms and stories by the Chinese culture of an old elderly woman who has a persistent work ethic, who was able to polish a large pole into a small needle as well as a man who was able to slowly dig out a mountain that was an obstacle between his house and the village.
  • Summer’s End – A poem on the end of summer and missing the friends we have made.
  • Taming the LionessA poem on facades and masks. A reference to lyrics: “lights all faded… that Heaven is overrated” Drops of Jupiter – Train.
  • Thank YouA poem on thanking the events that has given us many sorrows but has in turn shaped us into who we are and who we truly trust.  
  • That Of Which We Had Once
  • Three-Faced WormA poem with three separate interpretations, outlined in the poem; a poem of three poems.
  • Time’s Unfaithful PassingA poem on the passing of time and the feeling of regret of unfulfilled goals due to such.
  • Titanic: A Cruel FateA tribute to the tragedy of the Titanic and regarding the cruelty of fate.
  • Toddler’s Ice CreamA poem on the loss of something great — idea of “ice cream” influenced by a friend C.K.L.  
  • To Free
  • Towards Nothing – A poem towards nothing.
  • True EqualityReference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet – in death everyone is but a food to a diet of worms.
  • Trust (A Poem With Words That Rhyme)A poem on the breaking of trust.
  • Twenty First MomentA poem on people caring more about capturing a moment in film or image rather than living or experiencing it and a slight mocking towards individuals on social media who require attention.
  • Two Lonesome NightsA drafted impromptu sonnet for someone — C.K.
  • Ubiquitous Love
  • Unfair Fairness – A poem on a fair damsel who is not single. Extra notes on symbolism, purple rose*.  — J.C.
  • Unfair Fairness in Farewells – A poem on the unfairness of saying farewell to someone beautiful — S.A.
  • Unforeseen Idleness – A poem on people not knowing when to leave the scene of looming treachery. 
  • Unknown Reasoning – A poem on unknown reasoning. 
  • Unsober ThoughtsA poem on a wandering heart due to alcohol…
  • Unspoken Minds – A poem on unspoken minds. 
  • A Waiting RoseA poem on waiting on something great with some references to Greek Mythology. — Gaia is the goddess of the earth. Prometheus, a Titian, molds man out of clay and breaths life into it. Demeter is the goddess of agriculture who has her daughter Persephone taken by Hades to be his wife, it was later determined that she will be allowed to see her mother half of the year, the other half she shall be in the underworld. Demeter (Mater Dolorosa, Mother of Sorrows) as a result weeps with sorrows half of the year, resulting in the death of plantation and the arrival of the seasons.
  • Walking ParadoxA poem on a walking paradox — myself. Unconventional style…
  • Wandering SpecterA poem on a purposeless meaningless being.
  • A Weeping RoseA poem on a sorrows, misfortunes, and troubles.
  • When the Darkened Skies ClearA poem on the freeing from something treacherous.
  • Wistful Hearts – A poem on wistful hearts. 
  • A Withering RoseOriginally an essay that was written as part of a college application in 2010. Now, it is a fragment of a biography.