Poetry

Here are a couple of poems I submitted last semester for one of my assignments. Personally I don't think they're any good but I got a first on them so perhaps I'm the next Shakespeare in the running. The first two are sonnets, the last is projectivist.

Love 2011

We wake up naked, tattoos kissing

Mascara on the sheets.

My mouth is dry, dignity missing -

I hastily retreat.

Tomorrow night – it's you again,

A pill sits on your tongue.

I tell myself I should abstain -

Willpower isn't strong.

See modern love is just like this

No roses, rings or letters

But wait – now Facebook knows we've kissed

so everything is better!

As now one thousand strangers know,

Our union can start to grow.

Faith

Back here again, an empty room

My loyal friend returns.

This can't be real, it's all too soon

My skin, it screams, it burns.

And where are You, in all of this,

When Your presence really matters?

My faith was but a stolen kiss,

My trust in You is shattered.

I cry for You to stop me falling,

My prayers, it seems, in vain.

And then Your spirit hears my calling

And hope bleeds through my pain.

As now it seems the battle's won,

I thank You God, You and Your son. 

The Festival

She sat baking in the tent, sweaty

didn't want to get up

didn't want to face them,

the world,

everything.

Depression is a crazy thing.

Crazy when you're avoiding your wellies, caked in mud

and the Malibu in plastic cups.

Sausages on paper plates.

There's a tray of greasy chips in there with her

Cold and slimy like a bitter heart

and she can hear Rage blasting from the main stage

Two blonde heads appear – come out, come out

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.