DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
Ice Cream
Cool and delicious
Tingles my tongue
Break ups, fired, rough days
You eat it when you stay at home and laze
Spoon fulls, pints, or gallon-sized tubs
You cannot exchange food for love
Sunny days, trips to the park
Waffle cone, cake cone or put it in a cup
Eat too much and you’ll throw up
Brisk walk and girl talks
Fuzzy blankets and fuzzy socks
Crying to chick flicks, hitting replay
No matter how rough the day
Milk, sugar, ice and salt
Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry malt
Problem is, it is very fattening
When you start getting screwed over all time
Switch to non-fat
t-shirt
I wear your shirt because it smells like you
Comforting, Peaceful, Happiness
Isn’t crazy how a smell can bring you back in time?
It brings me back to my rosy cheeks and sweaty palms on our first date
Of drifting across the ice on my jeep
The same jeep we shared our awkward first kiss in
It reminds me of graduation night when you left me for the summer
And our first “I love you' under the California sun
It reminds me of driving through the orange leaves in the fall
And you warming my hands from the biting cold of the winter
I know it may just be a shirt to you,
But to me, it is a kaleidoscope of memories
Neighborhood Dogs
All day long I wait by the door for you
My ears perked
I’m alert
I miss you
I lick my paws, I chew on your shoes
Wish you knew that you’re my muse
I bark at the squirrels as they try and enter our home
I spin in circles, I chew on my bone
I hear the car pull up,
Your keys rattle
I pounce with joy
It’s really you, Oh Boy!
When you finally walk in, I bark, and I jump
Come over here, love me, play with your pup!
You shake me off your leg and throw me outside
It’s okay, we’ll play another time!
EVE
I wake up and do the same thing everyday
I am here all alone
I just want a hand to hold
But everyone else is stuck in space
So, I must waste my days away
I was in disbelief when she arrived
I was honestly terrified
Now I must protect her- day and night
She left without warning
I want to go where everyone else is
I don’t want to survive, I want to live
Short lived
Bright and sunny
All day and all night
Fades in slowly
Then disappears without warning
Lazy floats and Barbeques
Hiking, horseback rides, and bicycles too
Welcomed warmly after winters gloom
Months and months of ice and snow
scarily living at forty below
Uggs in the closet, snow board safely stored
Sun dresses and sandals
Pedicured toes and summer glow
Vitamin D and fresh cut grass
To this any Alaskan girl will gladly tip her glass
Benjamin Hayward
Ice Cream- I’m on a See-Food Diet. They say you need to eat to live, not live to eat, I think I’m failing.
Tee-Shirt- I leave a sweater at home for the family while I am gone.
Neighborhood dogs- This is how I would imagine a dog would think.
Benjamin Hayward
Eve- Deep.
Short lived- As I’ve lived a year in Alaska, I so get this.
Lilia Lundquist
I liked how different all these were the one describing a love affair I found to be very personal and intimate with made me appreciate it more. I also though “a kaleidoscope of memories” was a lovely description. You somewhat lost me with the dog and the ice cream, these seemed a little simple compared to t=your other ones. I also thought the Alaska one was very clever.
Kelsey
I loved Neighborhood Dogs! It made me feel bad too though because I also get annoyed with my dogs’ high energy when I get home and send them outside. Their loyalty is so steadfast though and the last line “It’s ok, we will play another day” tore at my heart!
Tometria Jackson
I really enjoyed reading your poems. Except for ‘Eve’, I could totally relate to the sentiments you expressed in this delightful collection. I thought you perfectly captured the prevailing attitude of every dog in existence with ‘Neighborhood Dogs’. I also appreciated the effort you took to rhyme your poems. It’s a difficult task, and it lended a pleasing quality to your writing.
Delaney E Reece
I think that all of your topics are very good places to start. I must admit that you rhyming lost me, it was very heavy and came out to sing-songy at times where I could tell the mood was more serious. I think that less direct use of rhyme or less use of it overall might better hold attention on the meaning than on the word choices.
nmfleming
I found all your poems to be really good and well written they all had good imagery in them. I could relate to the T-shirt one, I’m that way with my boyfriend’s shirts. However, my all-time favorite poem was Short-lived. I just thought that it described living in Alaska quite well.
Courtney Kisner
I love the rhyming you incorporated, it made the poems very light and easy to read. I also loved the line, “kaleidoscope of memories”–if you were able to add more lines in like this, I think it would add some more depth to your writing. Also, I’m not sure if you wrote these because they connected in some way, but if they do, I think if you blended them with similar themes it would work really well, too. Great work!
Shana Waring
It was refreshing to see some positive, light-hearted poems. We all seemed to go a bit deep and dark for this assignment. You were able to provide just as much detail and interaction with fun summertime stories as anything else more “serious.” Eve was the was a great description of how parenthood changes our view on life. I really appreciated your account of the emotions heading into the unknown and the desire to live after life changes.
Brenden Couch
I enjoyed this collections diversity. From T-shirts and neighborhood dogs to others like them. In my mind those appear to be elements of life to most people so they are entertaining to read. Also I tend to love rhyming poems.
Jess Young
I loved short lived! It perfectly summed up Alaskan summers.
Kait
Your poems were very intriguing, each had its own meaning and some had a sense of mystery to me. Reading the poems with rhymes were really nice! Your rhymes really roll off of the tongue.
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