One Man
Posted: 22 December 13 Filed under: Poems/Songs | Tags: Addiction, Advice, Andy Copeland, Art, Choices, Depression, Disillusionment, Drugs, Experience, Fix, Jesus, Life, Morality, One Man, Poem, Roads, Satan, Song, Writing, Youth 1 CommentBy Andy Copeland
I sleep, the world is turning
I wake, my mind is burning
Through my life I’m always learning
Don’t follow every yearning
I’ve almost seen Satan’s face
And I heard all ’bout Jesus’s grace
I’ve been everywhere between, seen
All the sights that can be seen and
I can tell you not to follow
Everyone’s advice
‘Cuz no one thinks
Twice
I’m in the world around me
The sights and sounds surrounding
Did you hear the music sounding?
I can feel my heart a-pounding and
I just know I need a fix
I throw it into my daily mix
My mamma taught me right from wrong but
Here I am, singing this song and
I just don’t know where I’m gonna go
But it ain’t too good and that’s for sho’
Ain’t too many roads for me to take; and
I don’t know how far one man can make
Withdrawal
Posted: 26 November 13 Filed under: Poems/Songs | Tags: Andy Copeland, Art, Depression, Drugs, Morning, Poem, Sleep, Solitude, Time, Waiting, Withdrawal, Writing 1 CommentBy Andy Copeland
The quiet whirring of the fan
Fades
Into my reality
As the dark
Behind my eyelids
Is replaced
By the darkness
In front of me
Last I remember,
I fell
Smiling
Sinking
Into the cushions of this couch
But now my head is clear
My blood is clean
And my mouth is dry
It’s out
People around me snore
While my wretched withdrawal ensues
I rise
Stuff a cigarette in my mouth
The staccato flick
Of my Bic
My soft stirrings bring the dog by
Feet underneath me now,
My secret sneak starts
Socks silently sliding along the wood
Everyone slumbers tonight
But I’ll see the sun when it comes up
April 2013
Slow
Posted: 25 November 13 Filed under: Poems/Songs, Writing Challenges | Tags: Andy Copeland, Art, Depression, DPchallenge, Drugs, Grass, Haiku, Marijuana, Poem, Sky, Slow, Weather, Weed, Writing 10 CommentsBy Andy Copeland
A pallid, gray sky
I need new inspiration
Burn, happy grass, burn
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/challenge-haiku/