Word Vomit

An Obsession With Haiku

I was once obsessed
The poetic pattern of
Haiku was my art

In the boredom of high school, I often wrote haiku in the margins of my notebooks. I found it easy to quickly count syllables, often without repeating the word in my head.

The Disease

I was asked to perform a piece of poetry for a male beauty pageant in my residence hall. I refused to perform something I had already written, so I culminated my most recently acquired…

I had an interesting conversation with a girl once. It went something like this:

“How would you describe yourself using a picture of something other than yourself?”

She sent back a picture similar to this:

“Untitled”

This is a piece describing the crippling nature of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

A Conversation With Death

This piece was written under a unique inspiration, and received praise by the National Ametuer Poetry Contest.

Color My Life With Chaos

Enjoy this terrible “romantic” poetry that I wrote at some point in high school.

Robin Williams

This commemoration of Robin Williams was written in my high school speech class. Williams is a personal hero of mine.

Persistence

This was written for a university introductory class. Slight adaptations have been made from the original.

You:A Poem

You’re Gay, that’s okay
You’re Fat, I’m alright with that
You aren’t very tall, I don’t care at all
You’re poor, I think of you no less, no more
You believe in a different fate, I don’t discriminate
You let down your hair, who am I to care?
You’re of a different race, I still treat you with grace
You walk a…