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


Sunday, February 27, 2011

Southern Girl

Boots to my knees
Skirts to my thighs

A gun tucked in my left boot
A flask deep in the right

...

posted from Bloggeroid

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Writer

If I wrote every time I had the urge,
I'd never accomplish anything.

Maybe I should be a writer.

posted from Bloggeroid

Grow Up

I don't want to stay immature,
but I never wanna grow up.

Effect

If you don't know how I'm feeling,
You don't know me very well.

If you have no desire to read what I say,
I tell myself you still care, just not my way.

If you don't know why I listen to what I do,
Then you've never been here before.

If my emotionless state dumbfounds you,
You don't affect me deep enough.

If you question what I say,
You're getting closer to the truth.

If I hear one more time that "it'll all be okay,"
I might show you that it's not.

You push, I pull. You pull, I push.
Nothing will ever be resolved.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Thought

Once upon a time
A little girl had a thought that she thought would put her to sleep.
Well,
She thought wrong.

posted from Bloggeroid

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

A combination of many little pieces of many parts of life. As a whole, I do not properly fit anywhere.

posted from Bloggeroid

At Odds

Why can I not draw cohesive lines
between who I am and what I like?

A combination of many little pieces
of many parts
of life. As a whole,
I do not properly fit anywhere.

Someday,
this combination that you so like in me,
darkness and light,
will rip me asunder.

posted from Bloggeroid

Monday, February 07, 2011

Winter Evening

the sky is heavy and laden with snow
the fields are white and the roads dreary

posted from Bloggeroid

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Paranoia

What imagination I have often displays itself in the form of paranoia.

posted from Bloggeroid