Some Old Poems..

I am currently going through my old hard drives, looking for scanned photos to post on the web. What I am also coming across is a whole load of old files from I don’t know when. Here is some of my old college poetry. At once they can be seen as pretty hilarious stuff but put them in context of what everyone that age puts out. They are pretty good. Actually, I am very fond off then, especially the memories of when they were performed and who was around me at the time. My professors and other people always said I had something.

I choose the most depressing stuff possible because I think that’s the only time in your life one can put out the most torrid emotions on paper so be unselfconscious of what it sounds like. Ha Ha. What else can I do with them? Otherwise they just sit in hard drives as trash… wow who was to know, starting a blog can make me a poet for a day still..

Here they Are:

Virgin (poem)

Homesickness and Tombstones

Impressions (poem)

Windows (poem)

Shrimps (poem)

Tattoo Dragons, Locked Doors, and Madness (poem)

Healing (poem)

Exorcising Wombats and other Useless Animals (poem)

Big Bam Boom (poem)

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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