Can you?
I don’t understand
Why things happen this way
No one understands
Last Night
It happened so fast
I didn’t know what to do
All the fault was mine
Sunrise
Purple pink and orange
Over the shadowy peaks
Shades mixed together
December 21st
A blanket of white
Your breath always lies ahead
The sound of frozen
Longest Vacation
Sweetness in the air
The green grass between your toes
The buzz of the bees
About Riley
I am a person who is passionate about people. People are usually my inspiration for all of my writings because they are always changing and none of them are exactly the same. That’s what keeps life going is the beauty of people. I love to make people feel different emotions and have them relate to them themselves instead of me telling them how to or what it is about. I like to make them think about how they can see things, and how what they see is different from everyone else.
Questions for Riley
oRIDGEinal: What do you want to say with these haikus?
Riley: Well for the first two I wanted the audience to feel danger and confusion and pain, while the other three are meant to be relaxed and open to nature.
oRIDGEinal: How do you want people to feel while reading them?
R: I want them to feel real. Like there is danger and sorrow in this world. Then I want them to feel relaxed and free from the world. They don’t need their technology to be entertained, you have the entire world around you, step outside of your own world and look around where you live, and who you are.
oRIDGEinal: What is the sound of frozen? (December 21 haiku)
R: The crunch of the icy snow under your boot, sniffles, and the sound of nothing moving around you, nothing seems to be alive.
oRIDGEinal: What was your inspiration for these poems?
R: The people around me are usually how I write my poems. I see people on their technology all the time. Our world is electronic, and we have become blind to what is true beauty; Nature, life, each other.
oRIDGEinal: What are these poems about?
R: I think that the first two should be up to the reader; they need to interpret them in their own way, and relate to them in something that has been part of who they are. The last three are about nature and how in a way we can connect to the world itself, not just the people in it.
