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By kburns10 06-09-2010 01:50 AM
Updated by kburns10 06-11-2010 01:17 AM
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Like most people, one of the first games I ever played was Super Mario Bros. I really think that game is the test of if you will be a gamer or not (I'm not sure what the equivalent would be to that game today). Instantly I was hooked! Despite being a Sega kid, there will always be a soft spot in my heart for saving the princess.
I started a poem one day called "Daydreamin". It was supposed to be a stream of conscience poem. I got writer's block and returned to it months later. When I returned to it, it took on a life of it's own. It soon became my ode to one of my favorite video games of all time. So enjoy my tribute poem to Mario! It's hard out there for a plumber.
For those of you who would rather read, here is the poem in written form.
Free time for free rhymes
I let my words run freely to flee from my mind
Mind you, I had my mind made up when I saw you
Pressed the power button and I started to adore you
You were the 1-Up mushroom hidden in the brick that I found by accident
I put on my yellow cape and flew into action with nine lives of curiosity
You were unimpressed by the five foes I just disposed of by jumping on their heads. Now they’re dead. And I can do this all day while laying in my bed
It was 1986, and you were just the fix I needed to nix my perfect attendance record
Gone in the blink of an eye like I just put in a code right before your eyes:
←,↓,←,←,A,B, Start
I resume play as my brain starts to fade away to mush
Always getting the lecture about that extra push in school
“If you studied for school as much as you played these games, you’d make straight A’s”
Mom can’t possibly understand how heartbreaking it is to make it to the end of the level only to die, simply because you didn’t see the gap in the floor
Or when you forget that the platform you’re standing on is only good for three seconds
You see, the beautiful thing about you is, you taught me about life
And people wonder why they can’t catch me
I never stand in the same place for more than 3 seconds
How do I know this single tile in the floor isn’t made of hot lava?
Or that the brick over there doesn’t have coins in it?
See, you taught me that if I were small enough, the pipes in my bathroom contain a secret world
And to duck when someone shoots a bullet
There’s a good chance it’ll grow 10 times the size of the gun
You showed me that drugs were, in fact, beneficial
Because if I ate enough mushrooms, I’d grow large enough to crush my enemies
You taught me to reach for the stars. They make you invincible
I love you
You may not be the most reliable after several years
But I can still duty you off from time to time and get a little use outta you
It’s a shame mom made me give you up
I think the final straw was when I picked up my pet turtle
He retracted in his shell
And I threw him at the milkman
Thanks to you baby, I’m moving to Japan!
I don't really write poetry anymore. I went on a little spell in 7/8 grade where I was writing poems all the time, just writing one after another. My English teacher had a requirement for a certain amount of stories and poems we had to write for the year, so I got started on them pretty early in the year and then kept writing. I still wrote in high school, but we were focused a little more on reading and writing stories than poetry, though we still had to write some and I did write on my own sometimes. But I haven't really written much the past few years, I have a few I started, but never finished.
@1NintendoFan I'm finding that I write less and less nowadays. It kinda makes me sad because I love to write! But at the same time a majority of my poems reflected some bad times in my life. So I guess because things are much better now, I don't have the same motivation to write anymore. In any case, thanks for checking my poem out!
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kburns10
- 06-09-2010, 09:31 PM
