Frustrations: A Book of Poetry

By Daniel Fairclough

This is a collection of poems about lust, love, anger, solitude, and all that the artist could find in the inspiration of his own frustrations. They were written during the years of 2009 to 2015. The artist was in his early twenties, and these poems reflect the ideas of his adolescence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543443325

Daniel Fairclough

Daniel Fairclough is an artist from Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA that arew up raised by his single mother alongside his two brothers Jason and later his adopted brother Joshua. Daniel dabbles in many forms of art, such as illustration, painting, making music alongside his writing, but he often dreams of living an easy life with someone that loves him where he can play video games all day and night.

Book preview

Copyright © 2017 by Daniel Fairclough.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2017912322

ISBN:                        Hardcover                    978-1-5434-4334-9

                                  Softcover                      978-1-5434-4333-2

                                  eBook                            978-1-5434-4332-5

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Rev. date: 08/28/2017

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

765973

Contents

Spaceship Blasting (Alien)

Alien 2

Beacon

Bewitched

Dryad

An Ode to Autumn

An Ode to Brown Snow

Chapstick

Exaggerated Feelings and Thoughts on Love

Fact and Fiction

Full House Straight Pair

Her Eyes

I Only Want Her Body

Ingeborg and My Heart

Incorrect

Carly

Jordan

Jessica Lynch

Katia

Turkish Jester

Jennifer

Lotion

Love Like I Live

Memory Lapse

Mythology

Phoenix

Pagan

Ode to the Bathroom

Nice Side

Worst Wedding Toast (And It Has Nothing to Do With You)

Rumors

Obvious

Poem 15

Suffering

Casual Haiku

Animal

Squirrel

Poem 23

Cats

Poor Boy

Poem 27

Facts

Beautiful

Hokey-Pokey

Poem 31

A King

A Knight

Helmet

Paladin

Ice Cream

Poem 37

Fowls

Zen

Anticipation

Poem 43

Chess

Maxim

Mirrors

Seasons

Tiny Things

Words/Actions

Freezing Rain, Society and the Girl That Broke Your Heart

Cooperate

An Ode to Language

Scratch

Kiss

Defenestration

Discombobulation

Angel

The Canopy

Oasis

Insect

Daffodils

Gentleman’s Club

I Can’t Write Poems

Tornado Thunderstorm

Plane

Downplay

Stranger

Testing the Waters

Scream

Creativity Haiku

Dedicated to Ingeborg:

Because our breakup was the inspiration for the misadventures that inspired these frustrations

Spaceship Blasting (Alien)

Please come back down to Earth,

you forgetful alien.

This is not the galaxy I fell in love with!

I can no longer see the starry night sky in your big swirling eyes, nor does your hair look like solar flares on Mercury mornings.

I can no longer compare your tall slender form to that of the unknown, but rather I see yourself continually finding a home planet and a people of your own, blending into something you always claimed you weren’t because you didn’t like the way they probed you.

I’m not saying, you’ve evolved into something entirely different, unless you have then I suppose it would be impossible for me to ask in your native tongue, to stop shooting down our space ships when all I want to do, is share a glimpse of the Milky Way with you.

Something like, hearts