I think I really like to write, even though I pretty much never share any of it with anybody. For a while I was being kind of lame about this page. At first it was going to say something like "this is some of the better stuff I've written over the years", but then I chickened out and was going to add a disclaimer such as "well, most of it doesn't really mean much." Except I would have been lying. So, what the heck. Here it is.

These are in the order I wrote them, as much as I could remember. Newer stuff at the top, older (i.e. high school) at the bottom. Actually I've been writing poems for fun since elementary school, but I've lost them all. THe earliest one I remember writing was about Harry the Hippo who liked to dance, and it came complete with illustrations. I wish I could find that one. *snerk*

Now with tables! So I can neatly add descriptions / over-lengthy commentary without it looking horridly messy.

 

2008
A Psalm I am very rebellious, and God is very faithful.
College (2003-2007)
Do you know Um yeah, no, I dunno.
BAM The first time I went to the Berkeley Art museum, I was caught getting "too close" to an exhibit and got chased off by an employee. For the entire day, wherever I was, an employee would watch to make sure I didn't touch anything. I was kind of bitter about it. Although, they were right... if I were let loose I would probably have touched a lot of things I shouldn't, so I guess I can't really blame them.
Dance in the Rain I wish I could animate some of this the way that I see it. I've been crazy enough to think of trying, or at least storyboarding it. I wrote it while listening to Myung's theme / Voices (link is a page with midi versions of both tracks, in case you're curious) from Macross Plus, because it made me think of rain on dark streets, or windy open fields of grass. I think this was during junior year of college.
Sorry During my sophomore year in the Foothill dorms, one of my suitemates anonymously posted some writing on the wall. I wrote this (also anonymously) in response, and soon someone else had also posted a poem on the wall next to both of ours. Pretty soon it was figured out who had done what and they were all taken down later, but I always kind of liked the idea, of posting writing together on the wall.
Lost
 I think too much in the shower. This is why my showers are so long. Heh.
High School
Sonnet
 We had an assignment after APs in our senior English class to write a sonnet. I was thinking about a lot of things at the time, and also talking to a friend about them, and so I ended up putting a lot of my own thoughts and effort into writing this. I was surprised and pleased when my teacher complimented me on it, although I was also a little miffed later when said friend got a point higher than I did on his own quickly written sonnet. But it doesn't really matter; my views have changed somewhat, but this poem still has a lot of personal significance to me.
Yin and Din Also written for my senior English class. The assignment was to write a short story using ten vocabulary words (italicized, if you wanted to know). I guess my motivations were similar to those of my sonnet. This is, sadly, the longest complete story I have ever written in my life, I think. (We did have one more assignment after this, to make a short skit illustrating a word. Mine was some synonym for a foolish person, and it involved an admirer of Picasso and, well, an admirer of the admirer. It was a lot of fun but I was nervous. I wish I could find that though, haha. This is the end of my long parenthetical aside.)
Haiku Sometimes you see a person as someone to offer comfort to, only to find that he or she is far stronger and deeper than you had imagined.
That Other Place I submitted this as a freshman to Analecta, our high school's literary and art magazine. Sadly the magazine had been much more popular in earlier years, and we made some not-quite-successful-enough attempts to revive it. We also had problems with plagiarism that were not found out until too late, which sucked. I liked doing the page layouts and looking through people's work, though.