Yea, so, I'm in this school function called, "Lantern" were students write poetry and share it and what not... Blatantly, at the first meeting, the teacher in charge comments on how almost all of the poems are teenage angst poems. Well, no suprise there, but it irked me a tad. Reading through the collection of poems from last year, it certainly seems the club is inundated with angst-riden poems. Well, if I were to add anything to the club, it would most certianly have been agnsty... so instead, I decided to do a light hearted, cutsie, foo-foo poem... with a Bradford twist. Yea, so it's done, just finished it now, doodled it up in AP US History. Hope you like it... and I hope it fits in with all the other poems... haha, sarcasm, how I love thee.
"Today I took a staple gun
And placed it upon my lip
Eyelids clenched, block the sun
Smiled, "Let 'er rip"
A heavy pull, a sharp yelp,
Some temporary pain
And suddenly, alright I felt
Enough for it, again.
Today I took a staple gun
And placed it upon my lip
A skillful hand, much fun
But suddenly, I slipped
Staples, staples in my cheek
I had not meant to maul
O dear how today's plans look bleak,
As I'm stapled to the wall."
Okay, where didja get the font for the poem first of all?
its a really cool font, and the splatter around the borders is a great touch, didja do that with a toothbrush?
the whole subject matter of the poem i think is nice too, really sorta dark but sorta care-free and cute.
(yes i called your dark poem CUTE!)
And yes, i have to say that usually i HATE all forms of poetry, simply because the ONLY people who understand it, are the people writing the poems, about nature or the 5000th poem of how their life sucks more than anyone else's.
but just cause of your layout and the way you incorporated the illustration in the image, i ACTUALLY read the whole thing!
i want to be stapled to the wall... o.O it sounds like a fun time...
nice job. : )
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How can I put into words the things I truely want to say to you?
I. Love. You.
And if you would only ask, I would take you to the ends of the Earth.
I would give you my life, my devotion.
See? Look above! Someone actually "read the whole thing". The WHOLE THING! It's en vogue to look at the art, read half a stanza, and comment on how it's pritty, I think. Anyway.
Fun stuff. I like the sarcastic, auto-morbid feeling you ran with. Hell, for something you just whipped up for giggles, it's actually pretty decent. You've got structure, you've got disobedience, you've got a little humor, and a bit of moral. To be the tangent-loving little fucker that I am, I'd like to say that I think more than an expression of a given subject, an emotion, a situation or anything, any poem is first and foremost an expression of someone's identity. Simply by the way it's written, how the writer chooses to examplify certain things, what metaphors or similes or devices they use, etc, it gives away a lot about that person in turn. I think you achieved that. from what I can tell, you're a calculative, darkly sarcastic observer, and this work shows that.
We can argue about what constitutes a good or bad attribute (if we wanted to be all Christian and judgemental about it), but I think it's all pretty damn good if you put it to task like you did here.
Cool and kind of surprising, enjoyable stuff, Bradford.
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I will light you up like the city from the skyline drive on a night worth forgetting
As I take you through the paces, I can think of nothing but her blood-lubricated orifices
And oh god let me savor the looks on your faces
Great great, I'm sure who ever the hell is running Lantern this year is gonna love that. har har har
hahah ap us I... hahahahahaha, the teacher is a sexist sodomizing bastard who should take his conservative values and shove them up his ass.... and then he should be fornicated with a stick. bastard. (i got the A for the year, so it has nothing to do with revenge)
See - I usually don't involve the words "poet" and "conservative" into the same catagorey, but I guess this man is one of the exceptions. Did he do anything personal to you? Discrimination... anything?
Haha, thank you soooo much! Well - the poem was supposed to be a bit humourous, so, I'm glad you liked it. The font is from [link] , if you want it.
And yea, usually I'm the only one understanding my poetry/writing, but that's okay... I'd rather it be opaque than transparent.
The splatter was from India Ink and, yes, a toothbrush. I scanned it at a high resolution and then took a small section of it, coloured it in, blurred it, etc. and then, yea... photoshopped it a lot, the wole deal.
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This is soo frikkin cool!!!
Okay, where didja get the font for the poem first of all?
its a really cool font, and the splatter around the borders is a great touch, didja do that with a toothbrush?
the whole subject matter of the poem i think is nice too, really sorta dark but sorta care-free and cute.
(yes i called your dark poem CUTE!)
And yes, i have to say that usually i HATE all forms of poetry, simply because the ONLY people who understand it, are the people writing the poems, about nature or the 5000th poem of how their life sucks more than anyone else's.
but just cause of your layout and the way you incorporated the illustration in the image, i ACTUALLY read the whole thing!
Great job!
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nice job. : )
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How can I put into words the things I truely want to say to you?
I. Love. You.
And if you would only ask, I would take you to the ends of the Earth.
I would give you my life, my devotion.
And I would love you more than any girl ever has.
Fun stuff. I like the sarcastic, auto-morbid feeling you ran with. Hell, for something you just whipped up for giggles, it's actually pretty decent. You've got structure, you've got disobedience, you've got a little humor, and a bit of moral. To be the tangent-loving little fucker that I am, I'd like to say that I think more than an expression of a given subject, an emotion, a situation or anything, any poem is first and foremost an expression of someone's identity. Simply by the way it's written, how the writer chooses to examplify certain things, what metaphors or similes or devices they use, etc, it gives away a lot about that person in turn. I think you achieved that. from what I can tell, you're a calculative, darkly sarcastic observer, and this work shows that.
We can argue about what constitutes a good or bad attribute (if we wanted to be all Christian and judgemental about it), but I think it's all pretty damn good if you put it to task like you did here.
Cool and kind of surprising, enjoyable stuff, Bradford.
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I will light you up like the city from the skyline drive on a night worth forgetting
As I take you through the paces, I can think of nothing but her blood-lubricated orifices
And oh god let me savor the looks on your faces
hahah ap us I... hahahahahaha, the teacher is a sexist sodomizing bastard who should take his conservative values and shove them up his ass.... and then he should be fornicated with a stick. bastard. (i got the A for the year, so it has nothing to do with revenge)
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And yea, usually I'm the only one understanding my poetry/writing, but that's okay... I'd rather it be opaque than transparent.
The splatter was from India Ink and, yes, a toothbrush. I scanned it at a high resolution and then took a small section of it, coloured it in, blurred it, etc. and then, yea... photoshopped it a lot, the wole deal.
Thanks again.
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