Poems: Aug 3, 2020

I keep watching Juice WRLD's freestyle raps on youtube, and Youtube knows it. I see them all the time on my homepage. 

This is a small section of an hour-long freestyle he did. He's just so damn good at it!

          

And, in the theme of doing things to get better at them, I think it would be fun to practice rapping. It's a long way from you hearing any raps from me, but poems are pretty similar to rapping, so I'll start with poems as practice. 

2020-08-03

I listened to an economist article about the anniversary of the atomic bombs dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki today.

I just happen to have this cloud photo on my desktop, not a mushroom cloud but it looks like one.

Power so great

Tempting fate

Lives erased

As delicate lace

Now today

Seeming so far away

The power remains

To unleash the flames

2020-08-04

I had a nice chat with an old friend today. The topic of acceptance came up. More than any word, acceptance has been the most meaningful and challenging thing for me. 

I remembered this photo today. It's of a pagoda in Magway in central Myanmar.

Accept the little things

Accept the big

Accept time and change

And that nothing will be the same

Accept the mundane

the joy, the ecstacy, the pain

Accept that I will die

Accept that others will die

Accept that sometimes I will cry

Accept the present

For only then can I enjoy it

2020-08-07: Screw

I put a screw though my brother’s finger

It wasn’t a site I wanted to linger

The timing was poor

Blood spread on the floor

The terror did grip us both

He screwed it out

With a bit of a shout

As I took my oath

To never again put a screw through my brother’s finger.