Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Slave to Rhyme


Call me old-school
But I’m prisoned in a time
Where it isn’t poetry
If it doesn’t really rhyme.

Like a symphony of words
That abruptly changes melody
It pierces my senses
Can this count as poetry felony?

Subscribing to the old testament
I feel like a legit fighter
A crusader of the dying art
You can call me a strange writer.

With conjugations and gibberish
For weapons of survival
I’ll make it work, no matter what
It’s time for some revival.

Rhyme rhymes with thyme
Who cares what it’s to mean?
A rebel, I live dangerously
Because I’ve found my Billie Jean.

My deep thoughts on paper
Don’t seem quite as profound
What must I do to cure this ailment
To my sing-song rhymes, I’m bound.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

• The Haiku Project • Day 7 •

• The Haiku Project • Day 7 •

Locked away
in our tiny drawers
and roomy closets
are undisclosed skeletons
and unsolved mysteries.

• The Haiku Project • Day 6 •

• The Haiku Project • Day 6 •

"If you want to win, you have to learn to be the master of the game."

To all the walls we climbed, only to jump over.

Monday, January 11, 2016

• The Haiku Project • Day 4 •

• The Haiku Project • Day 4 •

Is this this fence around me
Meant to keep me safe from you?
Or keep you safe from me?

• The Haiku Project • Day 5 •


• The Haiku Project • Day 5 •

Do not take my body
As a battlefield, to be fought and conquered
For it is a temple of the gods
Far beyond your fathom, meant only to be worshipped.