*snap *snap *snap *sips coffee

Below is the first of what I'm sure will be many poems I will be posting on here thanks to my writing poetry class.
For this assignment we were to work on imagery...and if there's one image I can write pages and pages about it's snow.
My love affair with this particular element of nature began at first sight and will continue far beyond our entrance into heaven where I'm most certain there will be more snow that truly does taste like cotton candy.
So please enjoy this selec-t-i-on from my future "greatest works" haha and thanks for reading!

*p.s. the line breaks did not work out to my favor when posting this as a blog. just know the lines beginning with a lower case letter are meant to have been attached to the previous line. you may consider this a small infraction however line breaks are crucial to poem writing so I felt it was worth pointing out.

Track 12

by elizabeth b. ogle

My first snow
I clicked to a Norah Jones song
Her notes delighted my ears
Her voice whispering words like sit, and watch, and snow.
Flakes fell fast from pregnant clouds
Flakes wobbly with freedom
My form interrupting their descent to the ground.
I reached out my hand and watched as each abstract shape became part of my ingredients
I reached out my tongue anticipating a sugary sweetness, dissolving instantly like cotton candy
I took a step sinking to brown,
But clicked to pause in just enough time
to hear the most satisfying crinkle
Underneath my shoe.
I waited to hear the sound of snow falling,
Folding like bed sheets all around me
And stood in awe as no sound came
Only little white clusters pure in both color and silence
Humbly frosting the earth.

your arby's party

club houses in your back yard
rolling bouncy balls down your hallway
dressing in denim shirts and hats to put on musicals in front of your mom
pretending we're kristi yamaguchi in your garage
randomly running into each other at the water park
watching zorro/i love lucy/captain planet...whatever phase we were in at the time haha
i remember! i remember!

oh the stories i can't wait to swap...

the last of the mohicans!

oh
my
god
i just read the comments from my last post
and seeing as how i'm in the middle of class and can't utter the scream of delight that caught in my throat
i have now soiled my pants

well oiled machine

Hello Friend, it's been a while.
I like to start as if we're in the middle of a conversation...not really I just like to quote that line from one of the greatest movies ever made that was on the other night and what my sister and I call "Usted tiene correo".

I don't have to tell you that I've fallen out of the habit of blogging but the month of December served as a bit of a brain break for all things creative. I took that time to fill my mind rather then empty it. I'm now deep into the Chronicles of Narnia for like the third or fourth time..I don't remember...

I will now launch into promises simply to fill up white space and start by saying I plan on swinging my brain back into "blog mode". This only means that special/humorous moments will be interrupted with "hmm what would be a good blog title for this?"

Unfortunately my plan of writing this blog and jogging some of that "blog juice" has failed because I'm out of things to yammer about.

Apparently I can only think in movie quotes tonight so I believe it's only fitting to include some more...If your spanish is rusty and you haven't yet figured out what movie I'm referring to here are some more quotes I've thought of that may jog your memory...
"Mmm scotch tape, can't beat that."
"Enchanting, your mother was enchanting"
"I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly"
"I love Patricia, I love Patricia! Patricia makes coffee nervous."
and possibly the most quoted line by my sister and I...
"Thank yur. Thank yur ladies and gentlemen."

Merry 2009

If the holidays were any indication of what 2009 is going to be like...it's going to be an awesome year.

If my posting abilities over the holidays were any indication of how often I'm going to post...I've got to get more inspiration ;)

Merry New Year Christmas!!