A Winter Walk

      I woke up in a haste. I opened my eyes and observed my surroundings. Snow covered trees glared down on me and they stretched as far as the eye could see. I had no idea where I was or what had happened to me. All I knew was I felt odd and extremely cold. As I rose to my feet and tried to gain my balance, I stumbled to the nearest tree for support. I felt like a baby learning to walk for the first time. While leaning on the tree I saw an old man walking the same path I suddenly remember walking on myself. I waved to get his attention and tried to speak, but nothing came out. He walked right by me as if I was air. At that moment the realization of my surroundings filled me. The old man was headed toward the same fate as my I. I was traveling back to the village, just past the forest. I was growing weary and suddenly, I came upon a lit cottage with smoke barreling from the chimney and I felt drawn to it. I knocked and a beautiful women answered the door and offered me shelter for the night. She filled me with food and spirits until the late hours of the night. In my drunken state the woman told me she possessed the kiss of death and her kiss maintained her beauty. She told me I would receive her kiss for the kindness she bestowed upon me. She leaned in and with the touch of her lips I felt pain' as if I could feel my pain separating from my body. Then, I woke up in this frozen place to forever watch other men march to their deaths.

Song Lyrics

Radiohead- Nude

Don't get any big ideas,
they're not gonna happen.
You paint yourself white,
and fill up with noise,
they'll be something missing.
Now that you found it,
it's gone.
Now that you feel it,
you don't.
You've gone off the rails.
So don't get any big ideas,
they're not gonna happen.
You'll go to hell
for what you dirty mind is thinking.


I chose this song because it is my favorite song of all time. I also chose this song because to me, it could be a poem. It doesn't have rhyme or any repetitiveness but it does have synaesthesia in the line "you paint yourself white and fill up with noise."

Poem for Anthology #1

I will be using the poem The White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly because I like that it is a short simple love poem that packs a big punch behind it. This poem is only two stanzas, but it has plenty of meaning and I plan on using it in my Anthology.

Rhinoceros Blog

My dream metaphor:
Marriage is a fairy tale that never ends.


I was a rhinoceros when I was in high school. I was always the different one. Always on the outside. I never fit in and i never fell into trends. I am a vivid individual and i like that i am not normal because normal is boring.


7.) Find the passages in the poem that refer to “nature” or what is “natural.” What is Ionesco implying about Nature and/or Human Nature?


He refers to nature three separable times in the book. On pages 25, 67 and 74. He refers to natural four times on pages 19, 78, 84, and 103. I believe Ionesco is implying that human nature is becoming savage. People are beginning to become so self centered that they'll do anything to make sure they are in the lime light. That are society's version of natural and the real version are two different naturals. What this society calls normal or natural is not natural, it is becoming artificial or even immoral. It has been happening for some time all over the world and will not cease.