Jake Shaw's Blog, page 57
July 31, 2017
Year Four Begins
[image error]
Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/200; ISO-400; 32mm
Not pictured: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Filed under: Images
Ellensberg, West, from the Water Tower
[image error]
Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/4000; ISO-400; 55mm
There’s something about this city that draws me. Maybe it’s the stories. Maybe it’s the reputation. It could remind me of my old home, but I can’t deny that it’s not some kind of beautiful.
Filed under: Images
Near Year Four – Journal 7/31/17
Will begin with a bang, hopefully. Take me to the future where I can plan stuff on this day every year, the gap between July and August that’s somehow found a place in my heart as a pivotal time.
At this time four years ago I was about to begin writing poetry for my first girlfriend. You never think something like that could become so juvenile and meaningless. You might recall I’ve mentioned Virgo Olympus was the first poem I wrote with the specific intent to make a poem, not just a love lett...
Guilty Pleasure
Yeah, motherfucker
Taking shots of
Whipped strawberry
Rockstar energy
Drink in my
Passenger seat
It’s all a big joke
As we listen to
“Shut the Fuck Up”
And blast it
In a hive of
Millennials and
Elderly
It’s all a big joke
My friend buys
Fidget spinners
And vape boxes
Ironically
I’m not a whore
But we’re gonna hit up
The Taco Bell where one
Of my exes works at
On our way
To our old high school
Staff parking, no permit
Don’t give a shit
Stopping by just to say
Hello to a few old teachers
Blendi...
July 30, 2017
Lithium Autumn
When dead tree days
Follow rivers of tinder
Branches glowing
And shimmering with
A cloak of frost on
The crowns of
Bloodshot, coppery
Amber leaves
Over lakes of deep
Wine colored spirits
As the clouds shine
A blued pewter
And mirrors off of water
An imperfect indigo
Wintery haze
Of sneaking shards of silver
Hide in the air
As morning mist
To keep beasts at bay
Where an android’s
Corruption
Mars the image with its
Own explanation
Building temples
And seeing wolves
Where none were
Before
Out of...
July 29, 2017
Millennial Backpackers
[image error]
Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/3200; ISO-400; 18mm
We were somewhere in the desert, at the edge of Ellensberg, when the self-loathing and angst began to take hold…
Filed under: Images
Gothic Lotus
Flowers left out to decay
Black frost on from yesterday
Growing in forgotten dirt
Lotuses in letters flirt
At a final resting place
Mound of Venus
Flower phoenix
Petals set aflame
Tribute in a graveyard
Vases shattered apart
Lotus bloom in marshy roots
Planted among quondam soot
Memoir rekindled
Fragrance of a gothic lotus
Bouquet left as magnum opus
Reanimating essence
Mnemic presence
Is what its soul is
A drop dead gorgeous
Gothic lotus
Filed under: June Era (III)
July 28, 2017
Powerful
Poetry
You have its
Beautiful form
In every meter
Each
Book chapter verse
Your body
A rhythmverse
And mind
A brilliant burst
Part present futures
For now there is thirst
And I know you’ll pick
The right words
For better
Or for worse
Filed under: May Era (III)
Lake Cruisin’
[image error]
Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/4000; ISO-400; 23mm
Filed under: Images
