50+ Days of Poetry and Other Works

As promised through a facebook status a week ago, here is the first of many of the poems I have written throughout my 23 years life. They shall appear here as I last left them whether they were edited or not. Some have appeared here before, but many haven't. I just felt like it was time to start sharing them with the world in this way rather than keep em all to myself. Each one will conclude with thoughts on how and why I wrote that particular piece and the meaning behind it...BUT I strongly recommend that you DO NOT read that portion until you have your own idea of what the piece means. This way I can see if I get the results I was looking for or if even a new angle can be shown to said reader. Without further ado, I give you The Crazy House.

The Crazy House

By Josh Watkins

The kid on the top floor

threw a bucket of bombs out the door.

The kid in the middle 

is "boogaing" a riddle.

The kid on the right

fell through the floor

with a light.

The kid on the bottom 

is slipping on blossoms.

And the kid at the door

wants to hear a whole lot more.

Hand drawn picture of The Crazy House

This was a project I had to do back in home school. Believe it or not, I hated to write back then. This time, however, I had a lot of fun. I felt goofy that day and wrote a poem about a lot of goofy people in one house (I neither admit nor deny that the above characters may represent members of my family). My favorite line is the kid "boogaing" (pronounced BOO-GAH-ING) the riddle. I had an image of kid in my head running all over the house shouting Booga! Booga!where each booga was a word that only he knew and spoken all at once formed a riddle. I also enjoyed drawing the kid who fell through the floor because A) I thought it was funny. B) I didn't have to draw his head. C) No head=no word balloon. I mentioned in previous posts that I had a big imagination as a kid...well use yours to imagine what this house would actually look like if I had the artistic expertise as Michaelangelo...about 100 times more insane than this crudely drawing portrays. So there you have it...one of my first masterpieces.