June 01, 2007
Poems In Obscurity
I've written quite a bit of poetry over the years. I lost a lot of it when my hard drive failed in my Junior year of college. In the long run this was probably good, since I suspect that none of the stuff I wrote in high school was really any good.
Most of what I've got lying around now is short, very very short. The longer a poem I wrote was the more I disliked it, so I steered towards very brief little pieces. Eventually I began writing one or two line poetry to be used as AIM away messages. Some of that is not too bad.
Anyway, for this week I thought I would present one of my slightly more poem-shaped pieces. I wrote this originally in January of 2005 and later titled it "Obscurity."
"One more layer," she said, "the cake's not quite high enough"
as I looked up at the yards of silk crepe, pine boughs, rich velvet, and whipped cream towering above me.
"But its huge," I countered, "how could it possibly need to be higher?"
"We have to be sure," she said, "or else they'll all know exactly what it means."
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