Valentines Day February 14, 2009

These are some of my favorite love poems perfect for Valentines Day.

Then I will explain why I’m not a happy person.

 

One Day I wrote Her Name upon the Strand

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize!
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;
Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

Edmund Spencer

 

 

somewhere I have never traveled

somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which I cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

e. e. cummings

 

I really love these two poems and I think they truly encompass what love is.

 

Now because it is Valentines Day I must say that I’m not happy, at all.

 

Most of my friends talk about Valentines Day as an annoying and stupid holiday.

 

They think it’s ridiculous to only show your love for someone for one day. When you think about it that way, I am inclined to agree. If you love someone you should cherish it each and every day.

 

But, they make me sick. All but one of my friends (and she doesn’t count because it’s her birthday) have someone they love and that loves them back to share this holiday with. THEY TAKE IT FOR GRANTED AND IT PISSES ME OFF! They really do not understand how lucky they are to be loved and cared for enough to get roses, or to go out to dinner. I’ve never been on a date, I’ve never been told I’m beautiful, I’ve never even kissed someone just because I love them and they loved me too.

 

I won’t say it’s not fair, because I don’t determine what’s fair and what isn’t. However, it is wrong to sit there with your boyfriend or girlfriend and say “I hate Valentines Day” but then you go and celebrate it.

 

I would give my left arm to have someone care that much about me.

 

Just throwing that out there.

 

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem February 13, 2009

Hey Hey Hey

today is Feburary 12th 2009

 

only 4 months and one day untill i graduate woot woot

 

So today was pretty awesome not gonna lie

In first we talked about some truely amazing poems the first being living in sin:

Living in Sin

She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime. A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat stalking the picturesque amusing mouse had risen at his urging. Not that at five each separate stair would writhe under the milkman’s tramp; that morning light so coldly would delineate the scraps of last night’s cheese and three sepulchral bottles; that on the kitchen shelf among the saucers a pair of beetle-eyes would fix her own— envoy from some village in the moldings . . . Meanwhile, he, with a yawn, sounded a dozen notes upon the keyboard, declared it out of tune, shrugged at the mirror, rubbed at his beard, went out for cigarettes; while she, jeered by the minor demons, pulled back the sheets and made the bed and found a towel to dust the table-top, and let the coffee-pot boil over on the stove. By evening she was back in love again, though not so wholly but throughout the night she woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming like a relentless milkman up the stairs. yeah i know awesome right??? I really liked another one we read though… this one was yesterday. It’s called To the Virgins to make much of time TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. by Robert Herrick GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,     Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day     To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,     The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run,     And nearer he’s to setting. That age is best which is the first,     When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst     Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time,     And while ye may go marry : For having lost but once your prime     You may for ever tarry. Again amazing. I’m finding myself falling in love with poetry more and more everyday lol. Thanks Millie Adams!!! Lets move on: 2nd was a drag… but fun cause mrs. fox is really funny. 3rd is my second favorite class of the day… simply because i get to  SING MY LUNGS OUT I really love the songs we are singing… most of them anyway except for Fences the music is really hard and Vannoy teaches it so it’s pretty much a bust! Now on to fourth: my favorite class of the day… aka AP BIOLOGY! We started plants today… YAY… not It was actually pretty interesting and after we got done with notes everyone had to finish questions assigned to us the previous day. Which was yesterday, for those who don’t get time… ok moving on I finished my questions YAY! so i moved on to some pretty sweet drawings of amoebae and things of that nature :/ kinda boring but my pictures are pretty lol. After school I went to Lauren’s, as usual, and we just chilled. As I like to say, we were getting our “Carpe Dieum” on lol ok ok i’m sorry enough with the dorkiness.   THIS was my day, boring but fun, read my poems… tell me what you think!!!!   Until then, CARPE DIEM

You are one, and I another February 12, 2009

This is an account of an actual conversation, This a lot less structured than that of what i usually write. However, It seemed like the best thing to put as my first poem. I hope you like

You are one and I another.

I panic

What’s your type?

I have no idea.

I really do know,

I know you better than what you would expect.

 

You need a girl, who will always listen to your ideas,

You need a woman, who will know exactly how to relax you,

You need someone who will call you just to say “Hey!”

 

Physically you need a woman, who you can protect,

Mentally you need a girl with a mind,

Who likes movies and music,

But who also likes books and science,

Emotionally you need someone who you can see yourself supporting

Through thick and thin.

 

But you don’t see that,

You see looks, and clothes;

You don’t see what you truly need,

And you don’t see me.

 

I panic,

What’s your type?

I throw it away as a casual joke

Blonde hair, Blue eyes, all American bombshell.

 

Silence

 

I upset you,

I’m sorry,

I never meant to put you down.

 

Shallow?

Maybe a little but not terribly so!

A quick “no, never” fixes that.

 

I do know you better than that!

Oh, what a mess I’ve made!

Change the subject-

 

Ask him your type,

Jokingly of course.

 

Silence again.

 

Are you thinking?

Are you still angry?

Tell me,

Tell me what you feel, and what you think.

 

A reply.

 

I read the words on the page,

Oh My God,

“??? Hold on a sec… k?”

He’s serious.

This can’t be real.

 

“Personality I say you are more attracted to assholes…”

How can you know that?

Unless you really know me.

 

“Deep down…”

Oh, you do know me,

Better than I know myself maybe.

 

“You want more of a laid back guy who would rather…”

Laid back, yes more than ever,

It’s like talking to you.

 

“Spend the day talking to you while laying around the house…”

I like that spending the day talking

Or chatting

and here we are 4 hours later still finding things to ramble about.

 

“Than go to a party or take you out… A guy who doesn’t show much emotion, but has a huge heart.”

You’ve got me hook line and sinker.

Dead on, Ding Ding!

We have a winner.

 

“so Lol, you pretty much need an Edward”

Edward.

Wait, I call you Edward.

That’s how I got you hooked on Twilight.

My Edward, how you so easily have forgotten?

 

No not forgotten, remembered.

You want me to fall in love with you.

A Bella to your Edward.

 

No it can never be,

Just like the Montague’s and the Capulet’s

Doomed from the start.

 

You are one and I another.

I do love you.

My Edward.  

 

“???”

Oh no, I forgot to respond

What do I say?

Do I tell him?

NO.

 

“Lol yeap- you pretty much hit the nail on the head; do you have mind reading powers?”

“Yeah, I’m your own personal Edward.”

 

Hello world! February 11, 2009

so hey, i’m arielle

most people call me rel though

i’m a senior in highschool

i have some really amazing friends

i’m going to Wake Forest University in the fall

i love to sing!!!

ok so some things i have planned for this blog are:

 

• stories that i’m gonna write. that is kinda a secret thing that i love to do, that NO ONE knows about and now i’m ready to share
• poems and songs i have also written
• daily happenings in my life <3

I’m kind of a dork, no lie! i love science and random facts… i beast jeopardy!

I have a pretty awesome life, there is only one thing missing…. Love

so thats prolly what most things in the blog are gonna be about!