And here’s my second set of attempted poems from famous poems. Now, I will move onto something else and not do this again for a long time. Another Time (Luck by Charles Bukowski)another placewe were stupidat telling timesmokinganother timewe were dreamingof better daysstill smokinganother citywe were tiredof waking upnot having cigarettesanother statewe kept silentduring long

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I decided to experiment and try writing a poem similar to some famous poems I have read many times before. While my take falls far from the mark of the original, it was something to do when I didn’t feel like writing a flash fiction story or rewrite my novel. This more in depth and

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I will not sit idly by whileyou stomp on my heartbecause you feel it is your right.I’ve told you countless times,it was never your decisionto make that mark on my body.It almost seemed fatefulto drink your cup of poisonuntil I came to my senses.I tell myself on nights when the fluttering won’t diethat you were

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From where I stand in this late hour,I have travelled to mental places few othershave gone and good thing for this.Their virgin eyes could not accepthow others could be so cruelfrom deep inside the wishing well.There was no water or coinsbut a darkness no one wants to acknowledgewhen on their own and alone.The fears in

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From that moment, I did not cry. My preservation meant something else. There were moments of clarity. I recognized there was safety. All the colors seen were gold and silver. He envied them all. One color was left behind.

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For if I die today, tell me how much I meant to you. Don’t think of the blood-soaked field around me. Or how many bullets missed my head. Imagine something positive to say instead. Plant a seed and watch it grow. For I am in that dirt as well as the water. The kingdom we

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And from the beginning, the influence was different than the rest. When the shape reached, there was an emptiness. The thoughts it could not share with others. The feelings it had kept hidden within a mirror. There were tears that never fell. And in the middle, the darkness became stronger. The shape could not force

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