Jake Shaw's Blog, page 23

Seattlite Sattelites

Wandering through
Seattle for
Ice cream after
Indian food

Taken hostage by
Hijabis who made
Me feel like
I was family

Moody under the
Drone of streetlights
Being strung along
By three vibrant scarves
Contrasted by
Leather jackets
And black clothing
And cursing
Titans with a sure-
Footed swagger
Wandering, though, up
Blocks we know

Bylamps that grind
Like fireworks

Years and Years – Rehashed

This one is a poem. And like poems it’s weird and layered and from a particular point in my life when I was feeling especially bitter about old blood and all the fun stuff that comes with past flames being present ash.

Years and Years – Text

I can see this poem was published in August of 2016, which would place it right between Year II and Year III in my internal head canon. This one may have very well signaled my growth as a person, or regrowth from what I thought I was.

Because the title ta...

Heartless Marketers

Right, right,
Write on your cardboard slats
In wind and rain to tell
The tales of all your pain

Dive through intersections
Where traffic can’t help but
Inspect your woes on display

Markers on posters pointed to
Each oncoming lane, asking for
Empathy and spare change

Every one of you holds
A degree in marketing

Using pithy cardboard
To make drivers feel guilty

‘It’s my birthday’, says one
‘Need food for family’, says another
And on one corner stands a man
And his ungroomed dog

Have sympathy fo...

Washed Up

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/80; ISO-400; 55mm. 4/4/2018 6:42 PM.

Poor little guy. Ripped in half by sound.

Reaching Out

Revel in black
And feel around
Until eyes dialate
To the dark
Void surrounding

It’s okay, though
Because

Everyone else
Fears the dark
Due to unknowns
Lurking within

With the cost of
Willful ignorance
Being
Eternal cowardice

Perseverance

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/4; 1/1000; ISO-400; 27mm. 2/26/2018 2:20 PM.

Step by step.

Perseverance

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/4; 1/1000; ISO-400; 27mm. 2/26/2018 2:20 PM.

Step by step.

Never Sunny in Olympia – Journal 4/7/18

That didn’t happen. Olympia, anyways. Thursday was such a weird day, and Wednesday kicked it off. The weather didn’t even hold out, funny enough. The one day in a week where it rained.

So I asked my plus one if he really wanted to bother, as I’d been running off of a lot of tension and 2 hours of sleep that day, and thankfully we decided to scrap the poetry reading. Our plan would have consisted of filming with the GoPro, walking for about 4 miles out in the weather, and I think we both had f...

Still Alive

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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/2.8; 1/200; ISO-100; 24mm. 4/6/2018 12:21 PM.

Thanks.

Jasmine Tea

Flowing at the speed of thought
Coursing through each nerve at once
Tendons the axles
Bones the girders
And cells the siphons
That drink in impulse
Every instinct wavering
Between the worlds of wish and action

Inner sanctums of the temple
Fill with meditation and thought
Monks tend to vases of incense
And steep tea still infusing
They guard the spirit
Which guides the whole
Governed by the souls it eats
And replenishes its own

Dislocation known as pain
When sinews snap within muscle

All that...