http://nbeck.vox.com/library/posts/tags/poetry/page/1/ Rolling around your room since eighty-eight. en Vox Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:19:26 -0600 Copyright 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss poetry http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/je-taime.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/je-taime.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/je-taime.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:19:26 -0600 I can't really fall asleep right now. I've been reading for awhile--I really like how James Baldwin writes. let's take off all our bobbles and pretenses and flicker around our shrouded rooms filled with morning dew and soft sighs we'll fall asle... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/je-taime.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00cd9785f1edf9cc?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry book http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/lightning.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/lightning.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/lightning.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:39:17 -0600 Her divine coffee-colored hair Her blaring, confidant laughs ricocheting off the classroom walls Her supple skin— There she relaxes in front of me. Her prinked rosy face, With her quick, unexpected winks Her vivacious spirit Like soda foam tickli... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/lightning.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00cdf7e1c6c1094f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/descriptive-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/descriptive-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/descriptive-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:32:16 -0500 Descriptions of scenes from the first two minutes of Amelie followed by a writing assignment. Enjoy (maybe). Little girl playing by herself with cherries hung on her ears, dangling red and shiny, father in a restroom at a urinal cringing from per... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/descriptive-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c2252a94be8fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry descriptive writing http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/language.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/language.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/language.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:28:35 -0500 I'm going to take German. This means I'm going to be studying three languages at once, and instead of really freaking me out this excites me to no end! And I may have found the perfect major for me -- the Romance Language major (or something like ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/language.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c22526efe08fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry plans college http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/hay-and-poetry.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/hay-and-poetry.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/hay-and-poetry.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:24:33 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225268f368e1d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225268f368e1d-50si" alt="Hay, and sunshine" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Look, a photo! This was taken when a friend and I went exploring in the countryside around my college. Zorro and I are not committed to each other, but we both still like each other. He's on the fence for a variety of reasons and I understand th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/hay-and-poetry.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225259b9e549d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry college http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/as-the-sky-opened-up.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/as-the-sky-opened-up.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/as-the-sky-opened-up.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:16:21 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/audio/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225211f9ff219.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225211f9ff219-50si" alt="Portions for Foxes" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The rain came; the rain poured. The sun was out casting rays of light and haze as the drops fell. Heavy they flowed from the tremulous clouds onto the rough landscape. Meeting and greeting. Water and mud and grass. The children's toys askew on ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/as-the-sky-opened-up.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c2252182ef8fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/above.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/above.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/above.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:03:12 -0500 Look up. The sky looms The earth's ceiling painted with blues or reds and all the hues between. Some days it falls Some days it never moves Eternal Everchanging Advancing each day one sunrise, and one sunset at a time. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/above.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c2252109b08fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/flimsy-sentiment.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/flimsy-sentiment.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/flimsy-sentiment.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:02:32 -0500 We click through life trying to figure out who we are where we come from what we're leading ourselves to that we forget. We forget to look around, at the grocers and the mail cascading through our mail slots -- a waterfall of correspondence, eve... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/flimsy-sentiment.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c2252109ad8fdb?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/are-you-ready.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(N. Beck) http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/are-you-ready.html?_c=feed-rss http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/are-you-ready.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:01:56 -0500 You touch the glistening perennials-- a last grope as you soon pass into the open, already soaked field. Rain plummets from the sky, a million little friends playing on your skin, on your clothes. You run and dance out on that field underneath ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://nbeck.vox.com/library/post/are-you-ready.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22521fab78e1d00c225210c6e604a?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry