Kelsey-Jo• Show poetry

Bum-bum-bummmm...

I've been writing poems since I was twelve, sharing them since about thirteen. After trifling through many systems of sorting, handling, and eventually (because it is only safe and necessary) emitting emotions, this method has proven itself most effective. And, well, I mean I do love it. My style is generally free verse, often fictional narrative, but a reflection of myself--flexible... or indecisive... it's probably safe to say she has mood swings, as well! Probably more like mood fluxes! Anyway, please don't take my poetry at face value. Just because it's a nice story that does not mean it is only a nice story. There is deeper meaning. If you don't feel like looking for it, I won't be offended to hear you don't like my writing. However, please don't tell me it's not poetry because I don't simply string metaphors together and hand you the point on a chinette plate. And, I do know how to write in forms/have and are capable of doing so, but simply do not on a regular basis. I enjoy other people's form poetry!

Doo-doo-doooo....

Me? I'm twenty. I'm a creative writing major. I am an oxymoron.
I'm not afraid to change my mind.
There are lots of various sides to me/my personality/life. Sometimes they spar.
I love the color green... life, growth, change... they are all very important to me. Plus, it's pretty!
I'm loyal. Ridiculously so.
I love impetuosity, chaos, randomness, surprises, split-second decisions, improvisation, and never knowing what to expect next.
I hate roses.
I love school. Wait, let me rephrase that. I LOVE school!!!
I like being challenged and thrive under pressure.
Coffee=good mood.

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I fell once.

And, though I'd never tell anyone, perhaps to this day, it hurt like hell.

So, if you're looking for something in common, there it is.

We all run, we all trip, we all skin our knees and swear no one's felt this pain. Then, some of us grow up and some of us sit on the sidewalk clinging our knees to our chest in tears.

So, whether I trip over your pathetic pile of self-pity or brush shoulders crossing a busy street at noon, there it is.

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[ "This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."—Hamlet ]

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."--David Copperfield

"To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear." Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

"What must be shall be."--R&J

"Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them." George Meredith The Adventures of Harry Richmond

"The human heart," he murmured, "is the tomb of many feelings." John Galsworthy Fraternity

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial." Philip James Bailey Festus

"To believe in the heroic makes heroes." Benjamin Disraeli Coningsby

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

"It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!" Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby

"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends." Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne Of Avonlea

"The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The White Company

"remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope." Charles Dickens Wreck of the Golden Mary

"To hope, and not be impatient, is really to believe . . ." George Meredith The Adventures of Harry Richmond

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Dashboard Confessional... "The Brilliant Dance"

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So this is odd,
the painful realization that has all gone wrong.
And nobody cares at all,
and nobody cares at all.

So you buried all your lover's clothes
and burned the letters lover wrote,
but it doesn't make it any better.
Does it make it any better?
And the plaster dented from your fist
in the hall where you had your first kiss
reminds you that the memories will fade.

So this is strange,
our sidestepping has come to be a brilliant dance
where nobody leads at all,
where nobody leads at all.

And the picture frames are facing down
and the ringing from this empty sound
is deafening and keeping you from sleep.
And breathing is a foreign task
and thinking's just too much to ask
and you're measuring your minutes by a clock that's blinking eights.

This is incredible.
Starving, insatiable,
yes, this is love for the first time.
Well you'd like to think that you were invincible.
Yeah, well weren't we all once before we felt loss for the first time?
Well this is the last time.


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~try not to sacrifice your own smile for someone elses...not unless their smile will in turn make you happy~ -My incredibly wise AP daddy...

~ Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks ~

~ The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is to move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with youself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.~ -Katharine Houghtin Hepburn 1907-2003~


~A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~ Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)~

~....Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy Shit...What a Ride!"~

~When something slips through your fingers, only then you know how precious it is~

~We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give..~

~One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.~ Jack Penn~

~Seasons change as do people, be as flexible as the wind, but stand for what you are!~

~You are the only you there will ever be so make yourself known!~

~Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up.~

~Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind.~

~Knives hurt the most when they're in the back~

~Perfection itself is the biggest flaw~

~Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.~

~Anyone who thinks sunshine is pure happiness, has never danced in the rain.~

~Intelligence is like a river. The deeper it is, the less noise it makes.~

~I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, But I never knew looking back on the laughter would make me cry.~

~What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.~

~Sarcasm keeps you from telling people what you really think of them.~

~"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.~ Calvin Coolidge

~Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct--a byproduct of achievement. Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement, and consequently, no happiness.~ Ray Kroc



[ The Thrills -- "Our Wasted Lives" ]

Hey kids,
There's no romance in fate
You'll go far

Because all the one night stands
Could be within your hands

Here comes the hard sell from the top:
Used to sleep walk but I woke up
Felt emptier than a suburban swimming pool in the fall

Wait. I noticed today I've let years slip by. I don't know why.

It's not like I've got time on my side
It's not like I've got time on my side
Who will testify
For our wasted lives

Hey kids,
You've been type cast all your lives
but no more.

Guardian angels
should be ashamed of themselves

Here comes the hard sell from the top:
Lose faith in fate