continued artist spotlight

so the winner of my "artist to highlight" this week, is my friend gabe. (sorry gabe, no prizes)

i appreciate poetry, but typically have to be in the mood to read it. however, i always look forward to gabe's lyrical stylings. (c: i know a few of you who read my blog already read gabe's stuff...but i don't care, i'm highlighting him anyway.

but to give you newbies a taste...

An Ode to Missing Words

Here's to all the missing words,
the ones that got away,
Here's to the gig's of space,
remaining empty to this day,
Here's to all the trees left standing,
and to the paper mills at rest,
Here's to all the still dull pencils,
and all the books unpressed.

The void they leave has size unknown,
and consequence un-tended,
Leaving disparate thoughts entwined,
And common thoughts un-blended.
They leave voices stalled in sentence-mid,
and journeys uncompleted,
Words sans rhyme, stalled in time,
and epic poems un-ended.

for gabe's writings (poems, short stories, general bloggingness...) check out his blog at http://typinghurts.blogspot.com/