A few new words

Here are a few new words of mine. One is just a bit of prose, almost a caricature of someone i am close to. I like to take people close to me and zoom in on characteristics, exaggerate them, and then find something to write about. The next, a few dark words that i wrote in the middle of winter. And then a short poem that i think is partially influenced by one of my favorite poets of all time- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. I love most of the postromantic poetry of spain, but his "Rimas y Leyendas" (Rymes and Legends) is one of my favorite written works of all time. 

"He was the type of person who would likely someday be walking along 

and not watch where he was going and suddenly find that he had tripped 

and fallen completely off the earth.

Of course this result may be quite to his liking.

Later on, he would insist that it was his idealist desire-

(to move to a place untainted by all the things he despises- 

that made him simply leap off this world on to one he 

could truly call his own." -jallen 2/10
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"Dreams"- jallen 12/09

i dreamed of you again last night.

but this time, instead of 

spitting in my face,

you pulled me close and whispered,

"everything will be alright."

and in that moment (if only in a dream)

everything was okay. 

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"My Eyes"- j allen 11/09

My eyes choose not to 

meet with your eyes.

They find it much too easy 

to make good conversation,

and feel much too at home

returning your glance.

They tell me to 

let them instead meet

with the back of your head,

where there is much 

less risk in having to 

quickly look away.