song to listen to while reading: ascension - sarah kinsley
These coming weeks are about to be crazy busy (a final exam, final project, hanging out with friends, moving on campus for a bit to train as an orientation leader, going to the States for a day, a concert (Cigarettes After Sex), said orientation week, starting school up again), so I thought I would post a past school project as some content before I return for this month’s wrapped!
I wrote these poems for a sophomore-year English project, where the assignment was to create a chapbook (short book/pamphlet) related to poetry (you could analyze another poet’s or write your own, I chose the latter).
It might be a little counter-intuitive to have the interlude feature (read the first one above) be myself, but I honestly don’t have much else to post (lies, they are still simmering in the drafts). I do, however, have some artists, photographers, and filmmakers that sort of match the seasons (purely based on vibes), featured below.
Summer: Slim Aarons, Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) and Sean Baker (The Florida Project)
Autumn: Norman Rockwell (The Saturday Evening Post) and Artemisia Gentileschi (Judith Slaying Holofernes)
Winter: Andrew Wyeth (Christina’s World), Francesca Woodman, and Cindy Sherman
Spring: Helen Frankenthaler and Věra Chytilová (Daisies)
Note for the poetry book: remember that I wrote these as a naive and angsty fifteen-year-old in a complex friendship/relationship, and had Halsey and the like blasting through my wired earbuds on the bus to school.
Yes, they might be cringe (I had this genius idea to add other languages but did not have any friends to translate so there are random paragraphs that I thought sounded cool but are actually run through Google Translate, so, sorry for the mistranslations), but they are still mine, and I’ve decided to share Pandora’s Box with you (they aren’t that bad at all)!
the pdf can be accessed below:
love the poems!
oooo your peoms are quintessential teenagedom that i wish i had when i was at the stage. also ENJOY CIGARETTES AFTER SEX that's epic!