poem
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On writing
If I taught poetry to students, I’d ask them to write in the language they think in and use the thesaurus wisely when they don’t. A simple sentence like the petrichor wafts through the mountains, bringing with it the smell of rich earth dampened by the rain can turn into a pappyshow of decent writing… Continue reading
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Today, tomorrow, forever
I don’t think anybody leaves this life in a state of blissful contentment, having achieved everything they set out to do. There’s always the question of the books you didn’t read, the people you let slip away, the pain you unnecessarily let in and the happiness you recklessly forsook. Maybe it’s different if you’re a… Continue reading
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Break up poem
Walking into the apartment where I spent so much time with you, I can’t help but be inundated with memories, the times we spent doing nothing but talking for hours on end about the most inconsequential things, the times we spent watching ‘something that will make us laugh,’ because we were so tired of the… Continue reading
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A simple man
I cannot understand what you’re trying to say. I wish you’d rid your poems of fluff, obscure allusions and weird alliterative sequences and write in simple sentences. Better yet, I wish you’d give up poetry altogether and start writing prose. I don’t get why you must say, the son of perdition spitefully looks down at… Continue reading
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Benny’s
There’s ash, destruction and dust, the colour of red ochre coating everything and everyone — The crumbling brownstones, the weeds and thornbushes, the rocks and us pilgrims, as we make our way to Benny’s. The serpentine path breaks in places, and we have to wade through muddy water and climb cliff faces. Benny’s in the… Continue reading
About Me
Ordinary Person is a guy who likes to write. He writes fiction, essays, poems and other stuff.
Ordinary Person 