Blank Verse

And I'm back! Later than I thought, but here nonetheless. I'm actually about to go to bed because I'm going to continue with Overtime tomorrow and Sunday. But, tonight, I bring you my Blank Verse poem recently crafted for my poetry project. Blank verse doesn't have a rhyme scheme, but usually is in iambic pentameter. I tried! Here we go:

The Titan

The weary days end with such a whimper

Mediocrity holds no excellence

But still the mindless work drudges forward

Forcing the handicap worker further

His mind already decayed with dreams crushed

An empty shell looking toward the past

Deep within hoping there is still a chance

Salvation in a distant memory

Something to keep him awake day to day

A drive from a mythic land, a legend

Hoping to become the hero once dreamed

The stubborn empire swallowed all he was

Despite praise, despite the pure offering

Knowledge decapitated for what, nothing

Efforts ignored for such ignorance

The perpetually insane devours

Nothing left of his creativity

Your passion incited death; burning all

When rational, they said you didn't care

When jovial they called your fluff nonsense

For your facts, they whittle down to the bone

With your silence; they felt you ignored them

You understood the horrible truth

You had the position to give them the stakes

No winning, no, only degradation

And then he was gone in a puff of smoke

The worker, the drone, the husk of a man

His passion, his soul, his love burned away

A mere sacrifice to the soulless gray

The cold machine rumbles on, unending

I was actually pretty happy with how this poem turned out as well. I had my reservation in the beginning, but the subject came together for me once I got to the middle section. It is about a certain situation, or at least it was when I started with it. At this point it can be about a lot of different things, but I'll always think of at least two, and to pay tribute to one of those things, I gave it it's name. One of my friend's put a comment that I considered really positive after I posted this one, so now it's one of my favorites. I'm not that bad of a writer! :p

So, overtime went pretty good today; however, day ended with a lot less "umph" than I was hoping. Maybe I can do better tomorrow since I'll be doing more OT.

Due to OT, I didn't do too much else. Mark needed me again for raids, so I joined up and helped kill another Firelands boss bringing the guild to 6/7 down so far. They'll probably get the 7th tomorrow; though, I won't be there. Due to the learning curve of the fight, didn't finish up till late, so no Infamous 2 tonight. Hopefully, I'll get some time in tomorrow and finish it up!

I also need to read 3 books! Ahh! First, I need to get Starcraft 2's novel down since I have a due date, and then I need to finish up the video game story writing book. After those two are down, I can finish Anansi Boys. So much to read!

With all I have to read, I still need to do some more learning on w3schools.com for html experience. I'd like to get some wiki experience as well, but I don't really have anything to write on a wiki.

And speaking of things to do, I need some social media books. Ahhh! So much to do. And Dawson's trip home is coming soon. I wonder if things will settle down a bit after he's gone? Other than the house being a bit more empty...

Well, I hope you liked the poem! I'll be writing some more for the series soon, but I have one non-project poem I'm going to share next. Oh, any advice on cool people or companies to follow on twitter? Anyway, bedtime!

End of the Weekend

So, here were are on my "Sunday" night. Truly sad! I did accomplish some this weekend at least. I wrote in the blog at least once a day! I read a bit, and I may read a bit more before falling asleep. Didn't finish Infamous 2 off just yet, though. I had planned to play a bit more tonight; however, Mark asked me to raid cause they were short a member (I'm a second stringer :/). So, I went in and helped. We killed a boss, and the guild is now 5/7 on new normal content.

I was going to toss another poem up tonight, but I decided I'd hold off on it until tomorrow morning (most likely). It'll be a Ballade (not to be confused with the Ballad!). More on that tomorrow!

Getting deeper into July means that soon I'll be bidding on new shifts at work, and no telling what time I'll be living :(. I hope I get one of the shifts I really want, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. And near the end of July, my brother will be going home. The apartment will be a bit more lonely.

Oh, I don't know if anyone paid attention to my twitter, but I ran into an awesome new show called Extra Credits. If you like video games and topics on such, I recommend it!

Still waiting on my new headphones, but they are marked as shipped now! Yay! Oh, and I need to set up a budget badly. I hate thinking about things like that!

Oh, well, not much else to say tonight. Thinking about a movie review soon, but not sure which I want to do. Probably Sucker Punch....

Anyway, night anyone who sees this post!

Saturday and Ballads!

Well, I feel better now. Completely crashed last night after my last post. Figured I'd start the day off with another in my poetry series. This one is a Ballad as best as I could pull up at least, and I think it turned out pretty good. I went with the classic murder ballad because I didn't feel like a cliched romance one, but I've heard pretty positive things about it! It actually took me far longer to write than I thought it would. Brace yourself:
 

Sweet Sally Shade

I have a tale to tell, my friend

Oh, a grim little verse

About red blood and blondes, so sweet

My desires, such a curse

Was late one night, if I recall

In my sweet, dark alleys

Where she hid from the wind and rain

Oh, sweet little Sally

Scared when she heard my steps behind

And she sheepishly called

Hello, anyone there

And I was so deeply enthralled

Silence at first with no reply

I reveled in the fear

Sliding behind her in shadows

On her pale cheek, a tear

Oh, little Sally Shade don't cry

I swear a sweet goodbye

No pain, no fear, only beauty

Like a star in the sky

Why kill me, she thought to herself

Melodies and sweet dreams

I replied with a quick embrace

Oh, she struggled and screamed

They always scream, I'll let you, too

Oh, struggle all you want

My cold knife to her neck, she cried

I am not one to flaunt

Oh, little Sally Shade don't cry

I swear a sweet goodbye

No pain, no fear, only beauty

Like a star in the sky

I'm an artist, please understand

With a quick swish she's slack

They won't find me now or ever

Please call me Mister Jack

And with that I'm gone in shadows

Please keep my tale in mind

When you wander my sweet alleys

Least you, too, end in kind

When I said brace yourself, I meant because it's pretty long compared to the other two so far posted, but don't worry, I think the Blank verse poem is even longer! So, I decided to go with Jack the Ripper (spoilers! if you didn't guess that by the end) and end with the murderer getting away but still giving the "warning". Generally, the murderer is caught and his warning is to not make the same mistakes at him, but hey, it's Jack! This is probably the most enjoyable time I had since getting back into poetry, writing this Ballad. Hopefully, all the poems to follow will feel the same!

I should probably text Quiz or something. Or something. Today's not to busy, just a lazy Saturday. No movies--as mentioned last night--to watch and no other big plans. I probably should go grocery shopping, and I need to get my hair cut!

Today is the normal raid night in WoW, but I think I'm going to take a break from that game for a while at least. I don't know, I need something else to play. After seven years, there just isn't much there for me anymore. I'm not a first string raider, and daily quests always make me feel like I have to be there. :/

Anyone else out there using Blogger have an issue with spaces and the "enter" key? If I hit it to make a line break, it doesn't always drop  the cursor down. It's pretty annoying. Any advice would be awesome. It's especially annoying when hitting it makes a new line, but the cursor goes all the way back to the first line. O_o

Anyway, I should be active and do something. Probably stop by later and write some more about something or another. Also, if you have twitter, I'm on there as @StetsonBlade! Just as entertaining as this blog! :p