Books, poems, and 80's music

OK, so an entire week without blogging. This thing where you have to come up with what to say then share it with the entire world is not as easy as I thought it would be...

What’s been happening with you? Hopefully more than me. What I can tell you is that I got my ear pierced for a second time the other day. Now I can’t take the earring out for two months, and I have to clean it with this antiseptic thing three times a day. I also am taking a break from reading the monstrosity of a book that is Gone With The Wind. Don’t get me wrong, it is a really good book, and the movie is one of my favorites. Just it has pages and pages of details. There is sometimes like ten pages where there is no dialogue at all. It’s not very fast paced. I am only like 300 pages into it, whoo-hoo, only 698 left to go. At least in my copy there is, if I was reading like the original copyright from 1936 I would have 737 pages left to go. If I remember correctly the last time I read it Scarlett was declaring that ‘with God as my witness, I will never be hungry again.’ Pretty admirable on her part, but I’ve never had to survive by digging through my neighbors gardens and eating rotten vegetables, while taking care of three sick women, a baby, a delusional father, the house staff, and Ashley and Melanie’s brand new baby, which I’m pretty sure doesn’t have a name yet, since his mom is sick, and they’re all positive that Ashley is dead, gone with the war. I won’t ruin the ending for you. Then I finished The Last Song last night, that was the second time that I’ve read it, and it still brings tears to my eyes in the way that everything Nicholas Sparks has done. If you’re a fan of Nicholas Sparks and you haven’t read The Last Song, yet, I highly recommend you do, it’s my favorite out of all of his that I’ve read, Dear John coming in at a close second. Oh, and by my parents recommendation I read To Kill A Mockingbird last week, I love that book. Highly recommend that book, too...

Enough about books, I wrote a poem the other day, a very strange poem, I’m not going to post it on here, but I wanted to tell you guys about it. While I was writing it I was watching “Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80’s” on Vh1. So I managed to squeeze in two references to songs from that era. One to a song that I really like, and a second that sounds cool. The first being “Voices Carry” by ‘Till Tuesday, and the second being “Your Love” by The Outfield. Yeah kind of weird. Then when I typed it up on the computer each stanza I made a different color, then printed it out. It’s like a rainbow!! Here’s a taste of the poem...“synthesizer beats with no where to go.......insane but far too crazy for a yellow box with holes in the top...” It just goes on and on, it’s really kind of weird. But I will share a poem I wrote quite a while ago. It’s kind of my tribute to the talented people who were amazing at what they did and then they all died young, and most of them tragically. Anyway, it’s my favorite.

Everywhere

see this

these are words

read them carefully

for they may not last

grace takes you there

takes you back

and everywhere

jeff sings

jimi plays

janis sings

kurt plays

marilyn acts

along with james

chris jokes

jonathan writes the moment

while andy paints the scene

diamonds are adorned

while a rebel watches on

a teen spirit hovers in the shadows

purple haze covers the sky

hallelujah sings out

a piece of my heart covers my eyes

a tick, tick, BOOM in the corner

tommy boy laughs aloud

popping art dot the walls

these are people

legacy not be forgotten

life takes you there

takes you back

and everywhere

Hope you like it. Can you identify the people that I mention in the poem. I will tell you that I was listening to a lot of Jeff Buckley when I wrote it.

till next time

shelby...