| Essays: | ||
| Title | Date | Comments |
| "Home For Christmas" | 4/24/01 | This is an editorial I wrote that was going to be in my school paper, but wasn't printed because said paper only had one issue. |
| "The Canterbury Tales: The First Political Cartoon?" | 1/17/02 | An essay I wrote for my Senior English class. The assignment was to do an analysis of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. I chose to do this to have a little fun wih it. I got a lower grade than ususal (high B), but writing the paper was worth the lower grade. |
| Poetry: | ||
| Title | Date | Comments |
| "A Mother's Day Poem" | 1/17/01 | Am I a geek for liking Godzilla? "I wonder, if you were ninety-foot two..." |
| "The Bigot" | 1/9/02 | This
is another assignment for my Senior English class. We were to
create another character for the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. "The Bigot proudly walks in our line next..." |
| "The Cigarette Butt Beneath the Tree" | 9/20/02 | A
simple quatrain of iambic pentameter. "I sat once beneath a gorgeous old tree..." |
| Longing For Venus A Sonnet Cycle |
9/10/02 ~ 11/30/02 |
Selected poems from a sonnet cycle I wrote. 1: "Summer
wind doth blow clouds across the sky" |
| "Musings on Cookware" | 1/27/03 | An
almost Seussian short poem. "If I were a pot..." |
| "Life" | 1/31/03 | Simple.
Direct. "We / Come..." |
| "Pygmaelion and Medusa" | 1/31/03 | Kind
of a free-form thing. "She was a work of art..." |
| "Englit 202" | 1/31/03 | Don't
get me wrong; I'm not some 'I hate school' packaged rebel. "I have to wonder..." |
| "Having Observed Upon a Sunset" | 2/5/03 | Kind
of a 'two contrasting outlooks on life' theme. "He said to me, one cold autumn day..." |
| "Moth" | 2/5/03 | I'm
really into 'regret' poems right now, can you tell? "I came..." |
| "The Anti-Sonnet" | 2/5/03 | A
love poem with a twist. "One would think I was facing a tiger..." |
| "Holden" | 2/5/03 | I
think every writer eventually writes something about his favorite
work. "What if Holden were a girl?..." |
| "Playing By Everyone Else's Silly Rules" | 7/19/03 | A
sort of form-poem without meter or rhyme. "Men at the peak of sobriety..." |
| More Poems Undated, they all came from about April and May of 2003. |
In The Moonlight - I really
wish HTML would allow spacing, because this is one of those 'visual'
poems. Demons Within - Kind of an ominous overtone. Elegy - Four Spenserian stanzas (Spenserian stanzas typically are composed of imabic pentameter with the last two lines being an Alexandrine, rhyming ABABBCBCC). Trinity - Blasphemy at its most poetic. ;-) I Sold My Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads at Midnight - A sonnet. Homecoming - Blank verse about raised -- and crushed -- expectations. Higgins & University - A fun little romp with regional flair. 'in the stone-dead hours' - Insomnia is a bitch, isn't it? Autumn - A 'moment' poem. The Almighty A - Unfortunately, I know a lot of people like this. |
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| Drama: | ||
| Title | Date | Comments |
| The Misfortune of Fortune | 08/01/00 | A one-act farce in which a poor couple wins the lottery and suddenly becomes the center of attention. |
| Comfort | 1/03/03 | A monologue for a male. |
| Fiction: | ||
| Title | Date | Comments |
| "Night Terrors" | 12/10/02 | A foray into fiction. A short story about two brothers and what haunts them in the middle of the night. |
| Lyrics | ||
| Perspective | My first solo album. | |
| The Motor Oil, Snot, and Honey LP | Both grittier and softer than my first album. | |
All material: © 2000-2003 Dave Short.