Become poem

Skateboarder Chris Miller, Pro-Tec Pool Party, 2009

You must risk

If you're to succeed

For when you grow

Sometimes you bleed

Each must climb

Over the fence

For the only cage

Is ignorance

Each Jedi knight

And Shaolin monk

Evolved from

A lowly punk

Don't get lost

In the world's throws

We must become

Our own heroes

-The White Bear

I wrote this in the mid-90's.  I've written over 500 poems in my life, and lost all of them.  Except this one.  Long story.

Haiku I wrote when I was nine

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In the grass I lie
gazing at the blue heavens
I lie wondering

-Steve Emig

If there's a deep, underlying theme to my life, that's it... wondering.