©
2003 I. Chishti
Poetry
I have put some of my poems here. Maybe someday I shall put all. When I refer to early poems, I mean poems I wrote while in my Creative Writing class. Before that class (I was 19 I believe) I never wrote poetry.
Bow Before You Pass Through The Door: This was the first poem I ever wrote. It was based off a wordlist that the class made up. It was based on some of my experiences with Martial Arts.
Ignorance Boxes: One of the first five or so poems I wrote. Many consider it one of my better works. I'm quite fond of it. Yet it seems like a grand movement of music that stops... dramatic maybe?
Dancing Before Dawn: This was one of the first Villanelles I wrote. I've become, since then, quite taken with the form. One of the only forms I enjoy writing in. This was about some soldier. Or idea of soldiering I had.
The End of Day: Another Villanelle. This one meant for someone. Ahh, unrequited love.
Before the Light Breaks the Dawn for the Day: Different unrequited Love. Yeah. You gotta love this sort of stuff. But I outgrew love sometime around this point.
Lost Inside My Hotel: Think of this like part Hotel California, Part Villanelle, Part Craziness. I like it, even today. Another one of my first poems.
A Meeting of Light and Dark: A song about the formation of good and evil? Light and Dark? Who knows. Another one of my earlier poems.
The Water Heals the Desert: A poem I wrote rather recently with my poetry partner.
Starcraft Humor: A funny poem for anyone who's ever played Starcraft. ;) Actually, it's a set of three Haiku.
You Can Keep The Sayings of the Wise:
This was a fun Villanelle I wrote a while ago, althought not in my CW class.
Connected Breathing: Just a bit about how digital everything is nowadays.
Men of the Night: This is about some idea I had of runNing wild through the deserts. Alone, but never alone. Always with these men of the night.
Broken Promises: Did something wrong.
My Darling Beautiful Masterpiece: I was pleased with this when I finished it. And I enjoyed writing it. It meant much to me, and a few people who know me very closely understand all it means. But many others have told me it's their favorite piece of mine, and I should set music to it. It's a rather newer piece of work.
Forgotten: This is an interesting piece. I made it for a friend, and I made it because I had forgotten something about her. She loved it of course, and went to yell at her hubby for not being more romantic. ;)
Several poems after this point are part of a special era in my life. The first few are a Before the thing then there is one that is during it that was for fun. And then there was the one I finally wrote after it had ended and I finally was able to put my grief to words.
Too Long: When I set out to write a poem for her, I did not know where it would take me. And I had the hardest time expressing what I thought about her. Indeed, I didn't know what to think. But then I figured it out. Alas.
Looking At You: This is a good one. And actually one of the two poems I wrote at the start of it for her. The funny thing is that I almost wrote one, but two came out at once. Go figure.
Whatever You've Done to Me: This was also during my time with her. A good one, a fun one. Nothing really to say about it.
Pink Pushup Bra: During my time with her. Just things that were discussed with much humour. I was amused by it, I still am amused by this poem.
Without Each Other: This is obviously the poem that I wrote to finally get it done and over with. It let out a lot of emotion, and yes it's angst, but this is how I deal with it. And it all worked out in the end.
I want to make another distinction at this point, now, that the poems after this are made by me after recovering from a terrible muse disfunction. I couldn't come up with anything. Then the next poem came, and things with her improved suddenly (we both grew up) and then that's that, I got my powers, so to speak, back.
A Wedding Poem: This was written in a 10 minute period while RPing on Elendor. It was at the wedding of Tinnu and Elin, and La paged me asking if I could sing. I had nothing ready, told her I'd do it, and 10 minutes later, this is what I posed.