Poetry Writing.......

So I just have one thought tonight.... who in the hell would have thought that poetry writing would be so damn hard!!!! Yeah, I have to take poetry writing, so I figured I might as well take it and get it over with, and I have to say it is rough. Poetry never has been my forte', but I have to say I enjoy reading it, some of it, more than writing it. So I'm going to share my first poem of the semester that has some type of substance. Hope ya enjoy it, if ya don't sorry. As hard as it is it is a way for me to release some thoughts.... and i have to say i have new appreciation for poets.....


Meeting my Savior at a Coal Yard

His decent - left a billowing cloud of black dust
lingering in the air. I walked through it to
reach Him offering Him my greetings
with a scabbed and calloused hand.
His brown-grey brows crinkled into a V,
his piercing green eyes looking down on me.

Folding his arms tightly, He left my
Hand holding nothing but the air He allowed
me breathe. “I don’t think I know you,
but I’m sure you know Me”. Replying, i said,
“i’m Your servant, have been for years”.
You see, there’s too many of you,

I can’t get to know all of you”.
His radiant hand swept across the yard,
high lighting the coal trucks, each hauling
enough black gold to support man for a year.
“I have built up all you see, I have made man
and given him purpose in life”. I thought,

this Man is my savior. He who gives me all
I have with the thud of his check signing stamp”.
I was not edified. His words elevated himself
above all, and he ascended, just as he came:
in a cloud of billowing dust. It hung in the air

mingling with my blood, my sweat, and
the stolen breathe in my burning lungs.
Conversion came to my mind: My labor,
my blood and my pain has built his creation.
The sacrifice of my body and soul
Has given him all that he has.

Sick of every last flake!!!!

Ok, so I don't know about all of you but I am sick and tired of the snow!!! Ya know, I use to love the snow and I still do, to a certain extent. Snow should be reserved for the month of December, given Christmas and all, but after that it needs to get the hell out of dodge! Thinking about it, yeah, it provides us with water, it makes things look pretty and clean, and it is fun to play in (or at least it use to be). But really is it worth all the trouble? Yeah, so I have to work in the snow often, hence my current attitude towards this miserable mess. Just to let ya know, I'm a tire guy while I'm finishing school, which means I get to go work along side the road, up in the mountains, down on the desert or any other god forsaken place where a tire blows out on a truck! Yesterday I was lucky enough to get called up to Nine Mile Canyon, at 3 in the morning in a snow storm! And guess what else, I had to go work on the snow plow which meant the roads had not been touched!!! GRRRRR! Needless to events like this increase my blood pressure as well as my animosity towards the snow! I'm sure that one day i will enjoy the winter and the snow again, but for the time being it just needs to GO AWAY!!!!

The swing of things.

Well, its that time of year again so we know that we have to get back into the swing of things. Like many of you I took some time away from everything and attempted to relax during the break. Well, it was somewhat relaxing and somewhat stressful, but so is life. You really don't get a break away from all of your stress. So now that I am a week into the semester, I faced the hard fact that it is time to get back to work. I kind of look at myself as a boulder sitting on the edge of a cliff. It his big, and lumpy, and stubborn as all hell, but once a forced is acted upon to tip it over the edge the ferocity is unstoppable until it reaches the end of it path. So.... this week i rested on the edge and the homework was the force that pushed me over the edge. It is now time to get things going, and get back into the swing of things full force. I wish all of you good luck with this semester! I know that I will need it!