The Last Bite (Poetry)

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college, education, Heart, Passion, poem, poet, write, writing

I live for Thursday afternoon dinner,
At the Crossroads Culinary Center.

Orange Ginger Chicken mopping my tongue,
Salivated between my molars.
Oh, if only my stomach could bare the vastness

Almost makes worth of
Pointless lectures;
Endless tortures.
I will look forward to full-fill-ment,
You, pursue accomplishment.

Sesame chicken, passion expression
Library sit-in.
Look to yours, and I’ll find mine

I’ll find mines of Gold in my soul
Hopefully, there’re treasures in your goal.

Copyright © 2017 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

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How I Escaped Engineering School (book)

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Author, books, e-book, education, engineering, escape, poem, poetry, school, write, writer

After many late nights and hours spent discussing and laboring over its various aspects including editing, formatting and so on, I am proud to present to you my book, “How I Escaped Engineering School”!

“How I Escaped Engineering School”, is a digital book comprised of personally written pieces that form a record of my battle with my engineering major during the fall semester of 2016. It was a painful semester since it was during this time that I came to the realization that I could no longer pursue my dreams of becoming an engineer. So, just like I often do in times of trouble, I started writing.

A letter to the Engineering School at the University at Buffalo is where my written story begins followed by 18 poems that were written over the months compromising my last semester as an Engineering major. These poems, written during the impossible exams, after a class or in my room, speak of my emotions of desperation, pain, confusion, and final acceptance of my situation. I believe anyone who has experience these raw emotions, which I believe is all of us, will be able to find something within these pages. Especially those individuals who have chased after something or fervently pursued a dream to end up finding themselves at a dead end where they must start all over again.

It is with this that I say a sincere thank you to all the people who have  supported me during this process and a special thank you to Ariana Castagna for all the energy, effort and time that you’ve dedicated to the creation of this book.

The book will be released and available for purchase on March 10th, 2017 at the link below. Once again, I am immensely grateful for every piece of support sent my way!

Cheers~

Charles Joseph

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Yum Yum (poem)

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cultural, culturaldelight, culture, Delicious, digest, empanadas, Food, jollofrice, poem, poetry, writings

No poetry upon request,
But this time, I really cannot digest!
Jerk chicken, black rice, empanadas with some zest
Oh! I don’t think there’s enough space for the rest!

No better way to experience a culture
Than to engulf yourself in its food.
Flying fish and griot; perfect for your leisure
Swallow fast cause they’re too good

Awww moma! I think I’ll marry samosa
My stomach is a bottomless pit
And Indian food is looking like a perfect fit,
Though ages in the bathroom won’t be lit!

My wisdom is hidden in a cookie
A little sweet but none like a smoothie
Con, “pizza, pizza!” from Italia to Little Caesar’s!
Oh, fighting for food freshens frequent scars

I don’t like spicy…
But I’ll bury my taste buds in Jollof rice.
Feel it in my veins as Mama Africa dances
She contains the most beauty.

Copyright © 2017 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

Quiet Room (poem)

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dead, distraction, ignore, individual, poem, quiet, sober, Words, writing

Headphones in
Voices on each end
Of the cellular.

Don’t be someone’s bother.
Remain in their head, they would rather
Limiting interaction to the screen and their mental.

Video games in hand
Necks bent over
Like they’re not sober

Nor alive.

 
Copyright © 2017 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

Dead Intellects (poem from the upcoming digital book, “How I Escaped Engineering School”)

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college, death, digital, engineering, freedom, intellectual, poetry, writer

Somewhere
Along that avenue,
Education became about
Who could endure the most all-nighters
Study biology,
Which teaches
The self needs sufficient sleep…

The irony:
One must kill to live
Two must burn
To feel quenched.

“Enough is Enough!”
Followed by,
“Let’s give it one more try.”
Constantly jeopardizing our health
For a goal cursing our wings
To this earth.

“Study harder!
And you shall fly,
Little bird”…
Or die

Or experience a dead flight
Because,
Raise your hand if you can
Honestly
Say that your after-life is
Worth the years of bathing
In the cold dreaded mud of education

Some of us
Have died so many times
On that road to “Success”
That all we see in the mirror
Is an Intellectual Corpse.

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

“Where’d Dreams Go” (Part 2)

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art, children, creative, creativity, dreams, happiness, lost, poem, poetry, Rain, smile, write, writing

Why don’t we play in the rain?
Why don’t we smile at the simple things?
Why don’t we smile when we have
everything to smile about ?
What made childhood become lost
behind serious faces ?
Who did it ?
Or
was it ourselves ?

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#FoodForThought

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different, foodforthought, imagination, life, poet, poetry, shock, think, Thinker, thinking, Words, write

What if it is not real?
What if the touch, the senses, the reaction
What if it is in the imagination? But
We’re too stubborn to let go
What if it isn’t real, and we can make it all go away?

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

Moon Soul (Prt. 2)

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art, beauty, Fighter, Moon, night, Ocean, poem, poetry, read, Sea, Soul, wisdom, writer

I will write and scribble and scratch
Because some souls are attractive
But hers is victorious,
Through her cries flooding the sea
And scaring the oceans away, bearing the ocean floor
To being a canvas for her to scribble her sentiments, Her moments
Her beauty, hidden in her soul

So I scratch, powered by my endeavor
Until she opens, like a wild receiver
And.
Surprisingly enough it turns out:

You need not to aim for the beholder,
But the sword illuminated

You need not to find beauty at the sight of her
But the soul, under the moon nested.

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

What’s Your Success?

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art, Hustle, inspiration, life, poem, poetry, Struggle, success, Successful, wisdom, World, write

How bad do you want it?
Will you forget about your breath
Just so you can breathe success?

But make sure your definition of success is
True to you
Not what the world has unconsciously
Pressured you into

Copyright © 2016 by, Charles Joseph Augustin

New book published!

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art, artist, book, love, Passion, poem, poet, poetry, read, write, writer

http://www.thegoodbrainproject.org/drop-of-a-hat.html

Hello my fellow writers, readers, artists and adventurers! Last year, the founder of The Goodbrain project presented me with an opportunity to publish some of my poems as a book. Without a second thought, I took the opportunity and have been working on the book since then. This book is my first published book and without further ado, I present to you: Loverboy (cover art by a friend of mine, Fahmida…Instagram: @fami__ ).

Loverboy is a 3 volume series of poems about a boy as he experience the different effects of love. Please, if you’d like to support, click on the link above or below and you will be redirected to a page with a short form to fill out. After filling out the form, you will be emailed an invoice with information asking about where the book should be delivered and how you’d like to pay for the book.

Thank you very much for supporting me. This is my first book and I could not be more appreciative of each book that you buy.
Cheers~

http://www.thegoodbrainproject.org/drop-of-a-hat.html