virginangelic

About Friends
Brian Jones

The good thing about friends
is not having to finish sentences.

I sat a whole summer afternoon with my friend once
on a river bank, bashing heels on the baked mud
and watching the small chunks slide into the water
and listening to them - plop plop plop.
He said, 'I like the twigs when they...you know...
like that.' I said, 'There's that branch...'
We both said, 'Mmmm'. The river flowed and flowed
and there were lots of butterflies, that afternoon.

I first thought there was a sad thing about friends
when we met twenty years later.
We both talked hundreds of sentences,
taking care to finish all we said,
and explain it all very carefully,
as if we'd been discovered in places
we should not be, and were somehow ashamed.

I understood then what the river meant by flowing.

***** *** *****

I just had to...I saw the pictures and I just...had to.

Freaking writer's block

Writers block
Is the bane of plenty around the world
It can strike at any moment,
And the end may never come for some

People have plenty of ways
To overcome this mental disease
From multi-tasking to drinking
Alas, nothing seems to work for me

Tis' a pity,
There is no cure
And there never will be.

Re-Number

Sometimes it's so easy to forget that
behind every number is a life

Another being with hopes and dreams
Aspirations as high as the sky and farther
With wishes and desires
sometimes as simple as to breathe again

A number represents
Someone's family,
Someone's friend
Someone with stories to tell
- lessons to be shared

Behind every number
Lies a person with a name
Whom no one will remember

I wrote this a long time ago. XD I didn't even know it existed until I checked my folder just now. This is the last of it for today. I promise! And this is one of the incompletes.

I actually entered this for a poetry competition but it seems they never received my application. Sigh...it actually pissed me off a lot when I found out months later during the results.

Edit: LJ stop eating my posts & comments will you?!

I didn't really like this with its religious intonation - didn't know what possessed me to write this.

 
This one is my favourite of all that I've written.:)