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Monday, May 21, 2012

VIDEO: WISDOM TEETH EXTRACTION AFTERMATH

Hey everybody! I hope you all have been having fun and living life.

I got my wisdom teeth removed last Friday. Fun stuff. What happened afterward was even better.

I wasn't really nervous about getting them removed. Lots of my friends have had theirs taken out, and I knew I had to get my taken out soon because they were causing my teeth to crowd. Stupid impacted wisdom teeth. I probably am going to need some sort of corrective stuff for my teeth, and I am not going back to braces. Bleh. I prepared myself for the removal by watching countless wisdom teeth extraction aftermath YouTube videos, including the classics: David After Dentist and Unicorn After Wisdom Teeth. I enjoyed watching many of Ellen DeGeneres' viewer submitted videos as well as videos of sibling wisdom teeth extraction aftermaths. I didn't think I would ever act like those people, but it would be awesome if that happened.

I remember going into the oral surgeon's office, signing some stuff, and going into the operating room. It was entirely too awkward before the surgeon came into the room because his assistants were just standing near the walls. No talking. Dead silence. And I'm just sitting on the creepy dentist chair looking at all the syringes and needles and drugs and stuff that are just lying on a nearby table. This silence went on for a good five minutes.

Finally the surgeon came in. My blood pressure and pulse were taken. They found a vein to put the IV in (which surprised me because I always have trouble giving blood because they can almost never find a good vein). The last thing I remember being told was, "You'll be out in no time." And I really was out. That stuff works fast! Meanwhile, my mom waited for me in the waiting room where people wait.

I remember being wheeled into another room after my surgery was done, but everything was hazy. I can barely remember trying to pull out my phone from my pocket to videotape myself because I wanted to make one of those "David After Dentist"-like videos. My mom came in the room and waited for me to recover. I'm glad she recorded my craziness. There was at least 40 minutes of quality video of my just rambling on about random things. And the car ride home was fun too. My mom told me I even called one of my friends. I have no recollection of any of this. But I watched all the videos that were taken that day and laughed my butt off. Almost laughed too hard to where the stitches in my mouth came loose. I didn't realize how "pop culture" oriented my rant was. I mentioned many a celebrity. Ellen DeGeneres, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys. I talked about UNICORNS too. Fun times.

And finally, here is one of the videos from that day:


Enjoy and have a great day! Live life!

-Vivevitaphilia

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Adventures of a Snowboard Newbie

I guess I forgot to post about my Spring Break a couple of weeks ago, but my family and I went to Colorado. I went snowboarding for the first time ever, and man, was it an adventure! My siblings and two of my cousins went along with me on this crazy experience. I've posted a series on YouTube titled, "Adventures of a Snowboard Newbie." You should check it out at http://www.youtube.com/mhcmusickid812. Here is the basic description of the four videos I have up in the series:

For Spring Break 2012, my family decided to go to Colorado. These are the adventures of my first time snowboarding. It was an interesting experience... We went to the Eldora Mountain Resort in Nederland, CO about 20 miles from Boulder, CO.

Here are the videos I have so far:


Stay tuned for more in the series!

Have a great day and live life!

-Vivevitaphilia

Saturday, March 24, 2012

THE HUNGER GAMES: OPENING DAY!!!

The Hunger Games has set a non-sequel midnight record! The film opened to an estimated $19.7 million at the midnight premiere, ranking seventh all-time behind the last three Harry Potter and Twilight movies. Find out more HERE.


Here is a video compilation of my experience at the midnight premiere:




I went to see the movie again with two friends who didn't go to the midnight premiere. We went around 3 PM before kids got out of school, and we were lucky because after we walked out the movie, all showings for the rest of the day were sold out. I enjoyed the film again. It was just as good as the first time I saw it. I guess I'm kind of a freak for seeing it twice within a span of 24 hours. But that's what fans do. At least I didn't have to wait in line or scramble for good seats like I did at the midnight premiere. I was less stressed this time around, and I felt more capable of enjoying the movie more this time.


I guess I didn't catch some things in the movie the first time around. The second time I saw the movie, I caught some things that were different from the book. Here are some things I didn't catch the first time around or I forgot to post in my previous blog post:


Many citizens of District 12 looked considerably healthy in the movie. They didn't look malnourished or underfed like they are described in the book. Haymitch wasn't present at the Reaping Day ceremony. The internal thoughts of Katniss were not as emphasized as they were in the book. The parachutes included messages from Haymitch, which differed from the book because Katniss had to figure out for herself how to get Haymitch to send the parachutes and what Haymitch's intentions were in sending the parachutes. I thought Rue was speared when she was in the net, but I may be wrong on that one. Rue didn't take the spear out of her in the book, but she did in the movie. Katniss didn't receive the bread from District 11. Peeta wasn't brutally attacked by the dog muttations. Peeta also did not lose his leg in the movie, which is understandable because it would be difficult to present his lost leg as a prosthetic in movie sequels. That would take a lot of special effects. There are probably many other things that were different in the movie, but I can't recall them right now.


One addition I extremely enjoyed was the rebellion in District 11 after Rue's death. I had chills during that scene, and the funny thing is that I had chills both times seeing the movie. It was inspiring and motivational. It made me feel like I do when listening to the song "Dare You To Move" by Switchfoot.


I enjoyed the film both times I saw it, especially because I caught things in the movie the second time around watching it. I guess I was too excited and stressed out during the first time I saw the movie because I missed some things which flew over my head the first time around. 


I do not have a sonnet to share with you all, but I will post some more funny parody videos of the Hunger Games:


Have a great day and live life!

Friday, March 23, 2012

THE HUNGER GAMES: MIDNIGHT PREMIERE!!!

Three words. THE HUNGER GAMES.

Wow. I am almost speechless. I just watched the Hunger Games movie at a midnight showing. I waited with friends for 5 hours in line. Waiting in line was an adventure in itself. But let's avoid that craziness. I was already jumpy throughout the entire day. I woke up and wished myself and millions of fans out there a "HAPPY HUNGER GAMES!" The night before, I went through important parts in the book to refresh my mind. After we got our seats, I could not wait any longer for the movie to start! We had to wait an hour inside the theater for the movie to begin. And once it began, everyone was silent. It was a wild adventure. I cannot type everything I thought about it on here. But it was unforgettable. Right after the movie, I searched "Hunger Games" on Google and looked for the news results. I found a post by E! Online. The link is HERE.


The post asked viewers of the movie what they thought about it, and here's what I said in the comments section:


"Michael C. Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 12:54 AM


I thought the filmmakers did well for the first movie in the series. Of course the movie can never be the same as the book, but they did a good job editing the film and still including the important parts. Jennifer Lawrence did a stellar job on portraying Katniss. I enjoyed the chemistry between Haymitch and Effie. It eased some tension during the scenes. Josh Hutcherson also did well in portraying the very likeable Peeta. Gale got the sympathy card, of course. The "girl on fire" outfit was not what I expected it to be. The special effects were satisfactory with the "girl on fire" outfit, but they weren't perfect, which is still okay. I am a huge fan of the book series, and I very much enjoyed the movie. The Capitol attire was done very well. I thought the Capitol would be an Emerald City like in the Wizard of Oz. Some filming in the arena reminded me of Cloverfield, but it added to the action and suspense. The mockingjay pin change-up was more heart-warming between Prim and Katniss."


Fans need to understand that the books will never match up perfectly with the movie. If they did, the movies would last for days. Sometimes, you have to separate the book from the movie as different works of art. I think doing this allows you to appreciate both the book and the movie. I've already heard from friends that the movie wasn't as good as they expected it to be, but I'm fine with that. For the first movie in the Hunger Games series, the filmmakers did extremely well.


At the start of the movie, I already heard people whispering during parts that didn't match up with the book. Prim's goat cheese was left out. Buttercup the cat wasn't as ugly as I thought he would be. The fence that surrounded District 12 wasn't a chain link fence. Peeta and Katniss didn't gorge themselves on the train in front of Effie. Where did Madge go? The Avox girl wasn't included. The prep team for Katniss wasn't as emphasized. There are many things that were left out of the movie. And there were many changes as well. Katniss bought the mockingjay pin from the Hob and gave to Prim who gave it back to Katniss before she went to the Capitol. I thought the movie did a good job in allowing people to make sense of the matter because Prim giving Katniss the pin is more sentimental that Madge giving Katniss the pin. Prim and Katniss are very close sisters, and you felt the bond between them grow when Prim returned the pin to Katniss. The Cornucopia was a lot different from what I pictured it in the book. Rue's death was a little bit different from what I thought it was going to be like, but of course, it was a tearjerker. I heard people around me sniffling for at least fifteen minutes after Rue's death. I think that's a bit funny because people who read the book knew that was going to happen. The muttation dogs were a lot large than I thought they would be. They were horrifying though, but I wished the movie put more emphasis on the muttations' eyes. But anyways, the movie ended differently than in the book. Cato's death was different. He didn't have his armor. And he didn't die in the Cornucopia in the movie. I appreciated the way Seneca Crane died in the movie. That was intense. If the movie did end in the same way as the book, I think non-readers of the book would end up angry at the movie's end. I'm kind of glad viewers didn't see the final scene between Katniss and Peeta.


Overall, I enjoyed the film. I cannot wait for the next movie to come out. In the meantime, I need to reread the book series so I can pick up on things that I did not pick up on before. I'm going to skip posting a sonnet tonight, so I have time to think and write well-developed ones about the Hunger Games as well as my Spring Break trip to Colorado and my trip to New Mexico before that.


As a side note, I did watch some funny parodies of the Hunger Games on YouTube before heading to the theater. I'll post two of my favorites here:





Have a great day and live life!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #7

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting. I was on Spring Break in Colorado, and I didn't have a lot of time to get on here and blog. But now that I'm back, I'll make up for the time lost. This post is going to have several of my sonnets. Technically, I have to post 15 sonnets, but I don't think you all want to read 15 sonnets. I'll post a few to make up for the days I didn't blog. Here it goes!


Life is a Mystery (5/3/10)
Living in a world full of mysteries
Forces one to search for the right answers;
Do we know about others’ histories?
The unknowns of the earth grow like cancers;
What is the meaning of this well-known fact
That so many know but can’t understand?
Why did he commit that murderous act?
We cannot force the truth; do not demand
Others to explain it to you clearly
Because opinion means nothing to you;
The act of discovery is merely
A small answer, incomplete and in lieu
Of the more comprehensive thought ingrained
In the mind of the thinker still untrained.

Line (8/31/10)
A simple figure can be so complex
As perception distorts its plain meaning;
The topic, as natural as reflex,
Gives way to another’s intervening.
Strict and straight, or curved, or in a spiral,
Or connected in such a way as one;
Can be quite harmless or even viral
Like the rays of the serene setting sun.
Leaving you there, only a starting point,
From Position A to Position B;
Colliding from two ways, making a joint
Decision, upon which, hard to agree.
Nonetheless, directing you is a path
Toward tranquility or enraged wrath.

Seven Days (8/31/10)
Every Sunday, I go to Church and pray.
I will drink the wine and consume the host.
Waking up Monday just gives me dismay
Because it is the day I loathe the most.
Sometimes Tuesdays give me gladness and GLEE,
But other times I feel indifferent.
Wednesdays, at the top of the hill I’ll be
To tumble down while drifting to the tint
Of Thursdays. I’ll watch my favorite shows.
See the horizon and its setting sun.
And then Monday’s chaos will decompose
As Friday is all about having fun.
Saturday is bittersweet for Michael
Since he knows he will repeat the cycle.

Tissue Box (8/31/10)
Sigh and cry: that was all she did that day.
No friends, no family, no one present
To guide her through the confusion and mess
That clouded her sight and the world around.
Lying down on her bed all afternoon,
Refusing to see the light and get out;
All she had with her was a tissue box
That meant more to her than her colored socks.
Ready to express her anger and SHOUT,
She needed to run outside very soon.
The necessary help she quickly found.
With pen and paper, began to confess;
To the house of the one she hurt, she went.
Asked for forgiveness to make things okay.

NoSeparation (9/1/10)
Givethemsome s p a c e; it’sgettinghardtobreathe
Withyoualwaysstandingrightbesideus.
Youragitationcausesustoseethe,
Andyou’realwaysmakingsomecrazyfuss.
Step away; perhapstwoorthreemeters
Shouldbeenough,soyoucanlive alone
Forawhile.Wearesurelynotcheaters,
Sodonotkeepcallingusonthephone.
Wewantyoutoliveyourownlife apart
Fromthelivesyoutendtostaysocloseto.
Offeryourselfasurprisingrestart,
Andthenallowyourselftotravelthrough.
You’ll learn that s e p a r a t i o n is not bad
When you maintain connections you once had.

I have run out of sonnets that I have written in the past, so it's time to write new ones! Get excited!

Have a great day and live life! - Vivevitaphilia

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #6 + COLDPLAY & PARADISE!!!

How's everyone doing today? I'm going to share a sonnet that I got published in a book called Stars in Our Hearts: Musings by World Poetry Movement. I entered a poetry contest last summer and luckily, my poem was chosen to be in the book. Here it is:

Common Sense (8/30/10)
It is not proof, but it makes sense for us
To hold the door for someone who’s behind.
Do not jump out right in front of a bus.
Surely don’t let the drug mess with the mind.
Please throw away the milk when it goes bad.
Turn off the lights when they are not in use.
Know the difference between mom and dad.
Do not confuse discipline with abuse.
To be funny and then to be a jerk
Is going from friendly to so shallow.
When to sleep, when to eat, and when to work
Are very important for one to know.
But do not keep these “secrets” to yourself,
Please pass the knowledge to somebody else.

I also uploaded a new video to YouTube, but for some reason, it is blocked in 220 countries, including the United States (but good news: it's available in 27 countries). I guess there are some copyright issues because I made a little amateur music video just for fun with Coldplay's song "Paradise" playing in the background. I'm posting it on my blog sometime later on (probably in the summer) because the Internet at my college is pretty slow. Sorry for the inconvenience. If I get to upload it sooner, I'll let you all know!

And here's the video link (public video on Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151136265621085&saved

Here's the description for the video: "I witnessed one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen this past weekend. I went on a trip to New Mexico to the Guadalupe Mountains with a group from my college. We visited Carlsbad National Park, Guadalupe National Park, and Slaughter Cave. It was a neat experience. Back to the sunrise, I got up early in the morning, climbed out of my tent, and hiked up a small mountain near the campgrounds. I passed the boundary line and trekked to the top of the mountain. The morning before, I saw a family of white-tailed deer. It was amazing (and it reminded me of "Bambi"). A friend of mine hiked with me up the mountain, but I stayed a little while longer to enjoy God's creation all around me. Watching the sun rise put me in a peaceful, tranquil state. Standing on top of the mountain, I thought of the song "Paradise" by Coldplay. And so I made a little amateur music video."

Have a great day and live life!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #5


I'm posting three sonnets tonight about two of my close high school friends. I'm glad we still get the time to hang out even though we go to different colleges. I am so blessed right now for all the good friends I have, and I am thankful that I go to a considerably small university because it was so easy making a family here. God is so good and he works in many ways, especially through the human race. Here are the sonnets:

Future Happenings (3/11/10)
Is Hannah Patton going to the lounge
Where all the free will gather with their friends?
The hungry people will begin to scrounge
Even though the good times will never end;
Is Hannah Patton next to Teresa?
Or is she distracted by someone else?
The great picture of the Mona Lisa
Will be the eyes watching over herself;
But never mind the unimportant things
That tend to pull the mind from the body;
We all should wonder what the future brings
And, in the spirit, it will embody;
Hannah Aleece Patton will I do scoff
When she loses to me at our dance-off.

What She Leaves Behind (3/11/10)
Teresa Gully, she flies to the sun
And grabs a handful of bright, shining stars;
She gives her best friend Hannah Patton one
And then takes it away and flies to Mars;
Teresa Gully leaves Hannah crying
But we all know this will not last for long;
She will always do her best in trying
In making those around her very strong;
But when will she return to planet earth,
Since she left all her good friends behind?
We can just hope for all that it is worth
To prevent ourselves from becoming blind;
We wait for Teresa to come back home,
So we will no longer have need to roam.

Transition of Love [Everything Will Be Alright] (4/9/10)
I am aware that you have not been well
Because things have not gone the way you planned;
As your problems begin to grow and swell,
You shut everyone out of your life and
Keep to yourself like a young lonely lamb,
So naïve, so vulnerable, so stressed,
The reason you no longer give a damn
About the things you already confessed
To the one you loved, the one you enjoyed
In your company. But there is a turn
Of warm blessings that you will not destroy;
You deeply wonder what your heart will yearn
For there are brighter days ahead of you,
Waiting for the perfect one to break through.

I hope you liked those! Have a great day and live life!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #4

Here are two sonnets I wrote during the trip the Honors group took to New Mexico. We went to the Guadalupe Mountains and explored Carlsbad National Park and Slaughter Cave. It was a nice break from the craziness of school. Here they are:


Road Trip (3/1/12)
Driving in a van, it’s completely packed.
Tents and sleeping bags take the trip with us.
Food supply for the journey tightly sacked.
How I wish we took a big, yellow bus.
Driving through the countryside, herds of cows
Stare at cars passing by. Railroad tracks lead
The way into the desert we go now.
I begin to pull out a book to read
For the long four-and-a-half hour drive.
Towering windmills in the distant land,
It never felt so good to be alive
With a blank journal and pencil in hand.
Drooping eyes, it’s time to go back to sleep,
But memories of this trip I will keep.

Into the Mountains: The Preparation (3/1/12)
The journey to Carlsbad, my soul awaits;
Clear skies ahead, not a cloud I do see.
Sunlight shines from above through heaven’s gates;
Energizing spirit inside of me.
Preparing my body for perfect peace,
I enter the depths of ominous caves
To discover my need: a sweet release
That will shoot my spirits out of the graves.
Rising above mountains, a clearer view
Opens my eyes to what’s in front of me.
Distinguishing the false from what is true,
Searching for who I was, am and will be.
With an open mind, my ship is steady
For what is ahead, I am ready.

Have a great day and live life!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #3

Hey peeps! I'm going to post three sonnets tonight because I won't have access to the Internet on Thursday and Friday.

Needs and Wants (3/20/10)
To live in a society of want
Requires all to suppress their deepest needs;
While those around us act so nonchalant,
We rush and scramble to gather our seeds;
Look at the glowing glamorous glory
And the flashy fame and fearless fortune
That the vain tell as part of their story
Which reveals that their journey has begun;
Toward their greatest wants they swiftly rush
And leave behind necessities of life;
Away in the water the needs will flush
While on dry land the wants will cause much strife;
What you want is not always what you need
Because in the end life is what we bleed.

Destinations (4/9/10)
I am going away for a long while,
But I did not want to leave you behind;
The last thing that you gave me was a smile,
But you will always linger in my mind.
We humans are so breakable and hurt
With the thought that we must leave from this place
And journey on a path with different dirt
To arrive at an unfamiliar face.
Why must I be volatile and fragile
Enough to choose to abandon my love?
The dreams I had once wanted to fulfill
Are left alone in a blank head above.
After we forever on the earth roam,
We will finally reach a happy home. 

New World (8/27/10)
The sky turned gray and the clouds grew yellow
While she ambled through bald and barren streets;
At the final crossroads stood a fellow
Who swiftly gathered unwanted receipts,
Purposely discarded by the Wastefuls
And left to be picked up by Survivors
Of the dreadful day. Gone were Distastefuls
Who abused and ignored faithful Drivers;
The woman approached the hard-working man
As he directed his focus to waste;
She whispered to him, “A New World began
The day of the destruction we all faced.”
Instantly enlightened, he delighted,
New possibilities he had sighted.

I hope you enjoyed those! Have a great day and live life!

Ekphrasis

I was going through papers from last semester, and I came across one of the poems I wrote in my Honors Aesthetics class. I remember that we were learning about "ekphrasis," which means (according to Wikipedia) "the graphic, often dramatic, description of a visual work of art." One of the English professors came to our class and showed us a piece of art entitled Strange You Never Knew by the artist Steve Neves (one of our Aesthetics professors). In the piece, a young woman with medium-length brown hair and head slightly tilted downward sat in a white kitchen chair. On her face was the feeling of tranquility with a pinch of underlying pain. Behind her was an open window where a warm, summer evening rested. A single streetlight stood in the background and dimly lit up a dusty road. Dr. Larry Fink, the English professor, told us to participate in ekphrastic writing in accordance with the artwork presented to us. Here's what I came up with in the ten minutes we had to write:


Strange You Never Knew
A young woman sits beside the window
With the evening sky behind her.
A streetlight brightens the road,
But does not do the same for her.
The summer heat is overpowered
By the coolness of night.
It allows a window to be opened,
A window to her soul.
But what does she think about?
Is someone on her mind?
Someone in her past she left behind?
Does a melody play inside her head
That she'll be better off instead?
Is her thought as clear as the glass,
Or does pain reside in her semi-tranquil state?
Her back against a chair,
Why does she not look the other way
To see the peace behind her?
Strange you never knew
The thoughts of a perfect stranger.


Hope you enjoyed that! Have a great day and live life!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #2

I'm posting two sonnets tonight. Both of them are inspired by fictional characters in Disney movies.


Queen of the Sea (3/12/10)
The little mermaid, what a happy soul
Who loved living her life to the fullest;
But just like Alice, she fell in a hole
And got lost in a world sent on a quest;
Then she returned to the ocean’s deep floor
And then scattered the darkness around her;
In life, she was looking for something more
Had she discovered where the wild things were?
She found the lost city of Atlantis
And made herself the queen of the lost sea;
She waited like a calm praying mantis
While the fishes were then filled with great glee;
She wondered, "Have I found a new big world,
Where all the mysteries will be unfurled?"


Brave Warrior Girl (3/20/10)
Invading the country over the wall,
They came with full force and frightening might;
To save her father she needed to stall,
So she went to war to put up a fight;
With her lucky cricket and dragon friend,
She was the only girl among the men;
Defending her people until the end
Was what made the sword stronger than the pen;
Caught impersonating a war soldier
She found herself in a numbing trouble;
Almost killed in an avalanche boulder
She survived amidst the burning rubble;
Saving her country and the emperor
Made her the bravest, we all could concur.


Hope you like these, and look forward to more! 


Have a great day and live life!

Websites to Waste Hours On: FREE TIME!!!

Now that I'm off Facebook and Twitter, I have a lot more free time to spend. And I've spent some of that free time surfing the web and finding cool sites. Of course, you can waste hundreds of hours on YouTube or StumbleUpon (or Pinterest if you're a girl...but guys are free to join), but I've found some other websites that have been worth my time.


StatusHumor is pretty darn funny. The site posts some of the funniest statuses from social networks. Here's an example of one:


"Look at your status, now back to mine, now back at yours, now back at mine. Sadly, yours isn’t mine. But if you stopped posting about the other things and made this your status, yours could be like mine. Look down, back up. Where are you? You’re on Facebook, reading the status your status could be like. I’m on a computer."

WIMP is a compilation site of the best videos on the web. The best part is, the videos are suitable for ALL AGES. So you don't have to worry about NSFW (not safe for work) videos. Here's a funny vid:




I don't know why I like this site, but WISH is a bit intriguing. I don't exactly know how it works, but I think you pick the things you would like to have and you're entered into a drawing for the prize. 


The Onion is classic news satire. It's also a great way to keep up with current events.


For all you music lovers, Pandora or 8tracks is the place to go. Pandora is like Genius on iTunes. You can create "stations" that play your favorite artists/bands and music related to them. 8tracks is more of a playlist type of thing. You can create your own playlists or listen to ones that other people have made.


If you want to change it up a bit every single day, check out Cool Site of the Day


Have a great day and live life!

Monday, February 27, 2012

Lenten Sonnet #1

Forget "Sonnet Saturday." I think for this Lenten season, I am going to post a sonnet on here every day. So here it goes.


My sonnet is based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 19. I'll post his sonnet here for reference:


Sonnet 19


Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course untainted do allow
For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.



Now here mine goes...


A Timely Destruction (3/9/10)

As time will take its deathly toll on life
And make the flowers shrivel in the sun,
Then will it kill with its destructive knife
And force life’s fragile thread to be undone;
While friends walk by and we depart from home,
It runs along and hurries for its nest;
The sword, it stabs as we are soft as foam,
And time delivers dark and dreary rest;
But how will I remember you and me?
Will we be given love’s untimely end?
The trap of time’s nonstop eternity,
We shall escape and time we will contend.
If time will take its charted course above,
Then we will fight with letters of our love.


Have a great day and live life!