Bacon Says...Ketchup

So I fell behind in blogging just because it kept slipping my mind. So, I'm gonna play catch-up tonight and post the missing links (blogs). So I was trying to do that whole National Poetry Writing Month thing but I feel behind. Somewhere along the way I lost the fuel to my fire. It kinda sucks but then again it's a great thing because the very thing that was stressing me out was riding on this one person and we finally had a talk that resulted in me hanging up in their face....they pissed me off! But now I can finally focus on better things, rather than people who aren't worth my time.  Back to NaPoWri, here are two of the last poems I wrote in honor of NaPoWri Month. The 1st one was inspired by a mother and son I kno and a poem she wrote for her son that I LOVE! The second was actually something I wrote for the person I am no longer friends with...shaking my head!


MIXED EMOTIONS
Find your culture my child
embrace you heritage full force
be proud of your mixed up background
embrace it all with no remorse
embrace them no matter how different
as different as they may all be
for we are all mixed up in some way
we all are some how family
Dont let you skin color define you
dont let them to you what to be
find out what's mixed up inside of you
make your own self identity
define yourself not by your struggles
and not by your tribulations or trials
make your own mark in history
leave a trail with triumphs for miles
Find your culture my child
embrace you heritage full force
be proud of your mixed up background
embrace it all wth no remorse
Say it LOUD, I'm mixed and I'm PROUD :)

SONG BIRD
Sing me a song little bird
Brighten my day with angelic chimes
Allow me to sway with the wind to your rhythm
Don’t rush our moment just take your time
Don’t fly away just land in my presence
Stay here with me and keep me company
Come to my window and sing in my presence
Sing my a lullaby and sing me to sleep
Take me to heaven on this sweet journey
Make me forget all my burdens today
Show me the path on which I should be traveling
Don’t ever let me walk astray
Tell me little song bird how it is to be free
Tell me what it feels like as you sing constantly
Please little song bird don’t ever cease
Tell me the truth of how things will be
Sing me a song little song bird
Share with me all your sights
to me please foretell the future
For as I am I cannot not fly
I wish to be like the song bird
living free as can be
So teach me how to fly little bird
Teach me a song to sing

Bacon Says...NaPoWriMo

So as you should know April is National Poetry Month. During this month a lot of poets will write one new poem each day to celebrate. I've always admired poets who could really sit down and write a full length EVERY DAY! Never thought I could complete the task but so far I've been keeping up pretty well! Luckily Julia reminded me because it had been on my mind but of course when April came it slipped my mind. For the frst five days I was really in a slump because I had no clue what to write about! I couldn't think of anything until I gave in a wrote Haikus for those five days. On the sixth day I foujnd some inspiration in talking to my parents and on the 7th day I used the writing assignment from class. And since then I've been finding enough motivation to crank out some pretty okay poems in my opinion. I've gotten some pretty good feedbackand this had truly been a good outlet because at the end of the day it feels nice to just sit down and let out my biggest frustration or just something small that's bothering me. I've been trying to write a "Love" poem to dedicate to one of my friends...hard though! So anyway here's my poem from day seven, which was the writing assignment from in class...

Origin of Hate…


Because I love you that much…
And when everything in the world is going wrong I can run to you
My safe haven
I need nothing more than your arms to hold me
When rivers are carving caters into my cheeks because life just isnt fair
And you make me smile
The sun rises in your eyes and dries
Everything is dry now
And im fine now

Because I love you that much…
No one else matter and I schedule my time around you
Because you make me feel important
And I cant think of a better feeling than to be wanted
No judgment…I can be myself
No worries about what tomorrow holds as long as you're there

Because I love you that much…
I put you on a pedestal
I made God jealous because I worshipped you
And you knew that…
Your ego shot up and pretty soon judgment fell from your lips like the water falling from the sky
The storm comes
And now im left alone and judged

Hate…that’s what I felt
No words to really describe it because it hadnt existed until this moment
and I cried again…and things were bad again
The sun stop rising because you never opened your eyes to see how you hurt me
You didn’t want to
So now im facing darkness with the rest of the world
And I'm the only one who knows why
And that’s the problem
There's no one else to run to

Hate spoken into existence
Never before used to described such a beautiful thing
But now….now beauty has no name
And the night is the only thing that falls upon our arrival
Rivers have found their way back to the craters where they once dwelt
On my cheeks…running down my face dripping onto the left side of my chest
Heart beats irregular…because hate is in my heart now
It has a name now…
Spoken into existence