Interpretations:
hey!
this is a part/section of my homepage that is constantly going to be under construction. --so
don't expect anything fancy.
i hope to offer my own interpretations to the things that i write, and explain a little about
different sources of inspiration. please feel free to comment on any pieces anytime. i always
welcome a new opinion! thanx.!
"me. empty me.": part of the idea for this one came from the song by 3eb, Motorcycle Drive
By. the lines "I've never been so alone, and i've never been so alive" seem to stick in my head
everytime i hear that song. so this was kind of my own perspective on that... on how sometimes
being 'alone' can be tough and a challenge, but in truth, there's more freedom to be yourself
when you're alone.
"come november": this is kind of a goodbye poem that i wrote for someone. at least, i thought
it was goodbye. the inspiration is pretty obvious: fall and saying goodbye to someone.
"my version of everything": this one, again, is pretty obvious. but i also hoped to make it not
only directed towards Christians. Faith is faith. its up to you to decide what to see in it.
"aftermath": this is your basic, not-exactly-everyday anger poem. i used the line "your red for
my black" from someone else's poem and added my own opinion and interpretation of it.
"if i walked away": this wasn't really my writing. Mike G started it and i kind of finished it. so
the inspiration and interpretation is his, not mine.
"fire, dream, intense, bean, spork": this was an assignment to use 5 random words in a poem.
it was interesting to see what everyone (in the poetry class) came up with. (1) is better with
bongos, just ask Tom.
"underneath": again, this was an assignment. this one was to use the same word at the
beginning of every line. they both attempt to address how people and relationships aren't
always what we think they are or what's on the surface.
"normality": this was an anti-stress poem. the underlying themes are that it hurts to grow up,
you have to fight your own battles, and sometimes acceptance of the abnormal can help to
overcome it.
"life of a cloud":the name says it all. i tried to make it come full-circle but... didn't really
succeed.
oppositional poem: this is about how sometimes you can seem totally alone and other time,
feel part of the greather whole--with a sense of unity in both.
"penny": this is a poem written directed towards someone in my life who things (he/she) knows
me but really doesn't and isn't true to (him/herself). he/she also pushes me to share parts of my
life that he/she wouldn't understand even if i did. its just a penny.
"Pebble": this is your basic abstract, perspective poem... this one is of a pebble in the surf of an
endless beach. . . . it kind of just.... is.
"that ends well": 'All's well that ends well' or is it??? this is a grief/sadness poem. and when
those emotions are, to a certain degree, overwhelming, one feels totally alone in that grief.
"who am i?": this is an expression of conflict everyone undergoes at one point or another in
finding the distinction between themselves and their parents and the person parents want you
to become.
"2am train": this one of those extremely abstract poems that i really did write at 2am. when
you're that tired, things just kind of pop into your head and if they fit together, its a poem. if not,
go to sleep! :)
"mist": this is about how one of my friends and i often visit our elementary school just to be there.
how growing up hurts, and memories fade and get lost...
"wait and see": 'stay the course' this is about wanting to see your future before you're ready for it
but wanting to see it nonetheless. its like, reading a book and being stuck in the middle... who knows
how its going to end. or climax... or anything!
"word": this is a poem i wrote soon after a very close family friend died. it expresses a lot of things about
that time. the whole family was together and i could see everything that is missing in the lives of the
older relatives in the eyes of the younger generation, that even though those people changed, they past
on what they gave up to the next generation. which mean that a piece of everyone we know that isn't
with us anymore is alive inside of us... at least to a point. it also expresses how one can be happy and sad
at the same time... it describes a real storm, one that changed my perspectives on a lot of things.
Carpe Diem, mom. thankyou!
"hero": this is an extreme-stress and losing control poem. the words sound harsh... but a reader has to
understand, they're just words... and they overdramatize the strength of the emotions.
"realm of sadness": see above, its basically the same as hero.
"cacophony": this is about not being understood. and being unable to express oneself otherwise
"after awhile": need i say more? its pretty self-explanatory. thankyou wings.
"wooden angels": the main theme of this one is growing up. but its also about the past, about fate,
about what happens to us, about looking back on your past, about childhood.
"rose colored fraud": things aren't always what they seem.
"untitled--poets": this is about a lot of things... but mostly poets. the world a poet sees isn't exactly
different from the real world, it IS the real world... more of it than scientists see. i can't explain it better
than i tried to in the poem, just read it.
thanks. -el
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