Unfamiliar Place - Luke Sawczak - Poetry


"We think above language, and still chant this litany..."  ~from "Above Language"

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These twenty poems of mine, which I selected out of hundreds, are arranged in no particular order.

PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Fire by Friction
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   The Morning's Resurrection
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   A Veil of Blue
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Untitled
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   An Empty-Field Soul
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Sitting Together
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Snatched
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Fire Alarm
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   One Less a Verse
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Awful Small
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Above Language
         The Girl With Blue Eyes
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Ma Vie in Writing
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Dysphoria
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Man Evoking
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   If You Blink an Eye
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   The Meaning of Fomenting
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Speak Dancing to My Feet
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   Dear Sarah
PDF Document   Word Document   Text Document   A Lapse in Hope

Feel free to ask for more! I'm always glad to share. If you think I should host some more on this site instead of just these samples,  contact me.

Writing poetry is probably my favourite thing to do when I have spare time (likely because it's very satisfying). I hesitate to call my poetry anything really fantastic, but people seem to enjoy it. It's reminiscent of e.e. cummings, of T.S. Eliot, and Goethe. -- No, that last was a joke for the erudite. :)

Though my poems all tend to be a similar length (I write until I run out of a side of paper -- and I generally write it on lined paper, in class), I try and vary the subjects as much as I can. That said, there are also a lot of themes that run through my verse. Probably a psychologist would say something like, "These are the things that speak to your head, from your childhood experiences," but I would probably reply, "Oh, really? Well, that's very interesting. Hmm, hmm..." and not think about it again.

They are things such as the oh-so-typical love, the postmodern abandonment, the ever-doubtful faith; and of non-human things, snow falling, rivers flowing, and growing, living things (you know, plants).

Before I cut my rambling short, I'll make a quick note in conclusion. I started writing seriously and with intent in late 2006; since then, I've written at very minimum one or two a month, and currently have over two hundred that I consider to be worth people's time to read.

I'm also proud to note that I've won several poetry contests. :)

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©2009 Luke Sawczak.Date: 2010-03-13 .