WELCOME

..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Ghost from Years Past

It caught me so off guard
because it didn't just 'happen'
it was a ghost from the past
reappearing to make me question
all I believe in and hold dear

Taken

I need to leave you alone
I cannot have you
because I, myself, have been had
It doesn't stop the feelings I have
Doesn't stop the complication
...I mean interestingness.
I have already sloshed your life around
enough as it is.
Me, a taken girl, should be sure
to not lead you on
(however much I'd like to).
I would hate to be the one
to make you miss another opportunity.

Right. So...

Maybe I shouldn't tell you,
let you find if you wish.
Humor me though,
because I want you to know.

Enjoy the Silence

Adorable and fascinating.
Now you know.
Knowledge can be dangerous.
We must be cautious.
Are you reading this?
I know now.
And we know what knowledge can be.
Knowledge revealed in the silence
(with no violence) via chat.

Monday, July 13, 2009

No Private Thoughts

Not private thoughts. No.
That is not allowed.
Tell the world,
broadcast your every pondering
Post it as a status
Post it in under 140
Post it to a blog
Encouragement to no longer have private lives
Everything you do is everyone else's business

Stay out of my life.

Learn?

I want to learn
I crave it
but I don't carve out
the necessary time

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Stabilize

Stabilize.
Stabilize.
Not Stable.
Wobble furiously left and right.
Stabilize.
Stabilize.
Feel it now.