/tags/poetry/ Recent content in Poetry on Werk Space Hugo en Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:39:17 +0000 /blog/thoughts/fragments/old-work/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/thoughts/fragments/old-work/ <h2 id="old-work">Old Work</h2> <p>These are typically from rather old handwritten notebook pages. For whatever reason, they survived. Their survival indicates that I should put them out to the world. There is no expectation of quality in these works. Most date to my teenage years.</p> /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-01-circa-1978-1980/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-01-circa-1978-1980/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>This is from a page I found in an old notebook. Likely circa 1978-1980. I tried to record this verbatim from the handwritten text. Take from it what you will.</p> <h2 id="anchored">Anchored</h2> <p>Everyone trying to beat the clown</p> <p>Each crowd flying higher than you</p> <p>yet anchored to the bottom of me</p> <hr> <h2 id="popular-grasp">Popular Grasp</h2> <p>A man tries to escape from the popular grasp</p> <p>What he can&rsquo;t see is he&rsquo;s the fist</p> /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-02-circa-1978-1980/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-02-circa-1978-1980/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>This is from a page I found in an old notebook. Likely circa 1978-1980. I tried to record this verbatim from the handwritten text. Take from it what you will. This one gives me a Pink Floyd vibe.</p> <h2 id="grinder">Grinder</h2> <p>As the world goes up</p> <p>and as the world goes down</p> <p>All the people just spin around</p> <p>wildly chasing their dreams to the ground</p> <p>They say they know where they&rsquo;re going</p> /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-03-circa-1978-1980/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-03-circa-1978-1980/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>This is from a page I found in an old notebook. Likely circa 1978-1980. I tried to record this verbatim from the handwritten text. Take from it what you will.</p> <h2 id="shine">Shine</h2> <p>Brilliance exists in all of us</p> <p>but in some of us there is more</p> <p>and in others it is closer to the surface</p> <p>For the some and the others it loses its shine</p> <p>through constant exposure to the unimportant</p> /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-04-circa-1978-1980/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/2025/08/05/poetry-04-circa-1978-1980/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>This is from a page I found in an old notebook. A little newer than some of the others, based upon handwriting. Likely circa 1980-1982. I tried to record this verbatim from the handwritten text. Take from it what you will.</p> <h2 id="truth">Truth</h2> <p>The worls is so unknowingly old</p> <p>and I so unbearably young</p> <p>How can I expect to learn every fold <br /> <br /> <br /> Must I search for the infinite truth</p>