Emo Poetry
by Aaron Green
Emo poetry is above all else, used as a release, consisting of deep emotional issues such as depression, heartache, suicide and death. Imagery is a strong tool within Emo poems and can often use themes of guns, knives and blood to depict pain.
Here are some Emo poems from local poets:
Hard Again Today – Seth Raine
Was it hard again today?
When all you thought you’ve overcome
Turns and turns, and turns
Twists and panic burns
Running through your blood
Last night
The room it too did turn
Tables, bodies and limbs
Your hands keeping me warm
Suffocating as it was
It breathed a life in me
From old to new
One spark to light the fuel
And I think of the others
With false words and worlds of burden
With flickering tongues and cheap intrusion
And I saw it all, my own eyes obscured
Saved from their freedom
A tawdry stigma’s allure
But it’s easy to say
At the end of the day
Before the fall into engulfing pray
That with all angst
You’ve felt so little
And it was hard again today
Your Call – Kayden Giffen
Sorry I missed your call
There’s always hair in your eyes
The patch above your stomach
Where the needle tore
There’s no up with the downs
Just stagmented falling
Validation calling
Don’t patronise my mind
There’s too many eyes
I’ve decided
There’s too much noise
When it comes to this
Remove the warmth
When it’s cold
Change your actions
And speak no truth
There’s some control
In day before night
In night before your call
The strength of silent torture
What am I doing?
This ride won’t stop
Emo Cartoons
by Aaron Green
Emo Cartoons often take the literal sense of a phrase and play on it in the form of images that bring forth graphic depictions of pain and heartache through dark humour.
Punk Art
by Aaron Green
VISUAL ART
Many art movements of the time Punk was forming had such a huge influence on the Punk scene including Punk graphic art, fashion, music and behaviour. Art movements such as ‘Dadaism’, ‘Futurism’, expressing pace and difference, ‘Minimalism’, expressing simple, straight forward inclinations, and ‘Pop Art’ which highly influenced Punks’ visual art seen on album covers. Art created by Punks are usually confronting and tackle political issues. A popular technique is to edit an image with a message or banners and patches.
[PUNK ART IMAGE]
LITERATURE
The Punk movement was influenced also by the day’s literature and literacy movements. Writers and poets would influence the Punk scene’s attitudes, behaviours, fashion, hairstyles, government distrust and politics. Jim Carroll’s ‘The Basketball Diaries’ is seen as the first example of Punk literature but in every Punk scene there was underground street press called Punk ‘Zines’. These Zines would keep the community up to date on news, local bands, gossip and culture. Poetry, prose and fiction were also found within a Punk Zine expressing political and social beliefs of the time.
FILM
Most Punk film is seen in the underground communities with low quality Punk music videos, movies of skateboarding and historical documentaries. In the mainstream arena, bands such as The Ramones and The Sex Pistols can be found featured in movies and film movements such as ‘No Wave Cinema’ and ‘Remodernist’ were influenced by the Punk movement and also influenced Punk movies such as ’24 Hour Party People’.
Easy Rider Comic
by Wrongtown Enterprizes

God On God Poem
by Ben Wild
At any time lately,
Say the last 6000 years,
We have seen God killing God in the name of God,
For the freedom, conquest, liberation and glory of God,
That God may be at peace and God may prosper,
And all may be well in God's garden and God's city,
Because God is always right and every other God is wrong-
That's how wise God is.
Things have not changed of late,
And God's now bombing Allah,
The Trimurti are gone atomic,
Allah's throwing stones and blowing shit up,
While Buddha's getting high,
The Old Gods are all drunk and wasted,
And Yahweh has a wall of selfish wealth-
But so does God and so does Allah- so it's okay.
And they're just all God anyway,
But God disagrees with God on this,
And so God isn't faith at all, but just another politics.
And Man forbid you speak ill of God,
As if any of us have ever met this idea of God,
Or emulate the truth of God,
Or allow God to grow without cutting God down and burning God to stay warm or to have toothpicks and matches.
The same God who made the devil,
The same Lucifer that brought us light,
To show to us that God is just a schizophrenic and atomic family fighting over who's God has a bigger dick,
Or nicer car, or more money, or cleaner shoes, or better pitch, or more subscribers, or a bigger house, or more cosmic bling.
By now God is forgotten in a nursing home.
While outside God's having abortions and giving abortions, protesting and killing over abortions.
God's sleeping in the street and begging God for spare change so God can eat.
God's all paranoid and is watching God on cameras, and worried that at any minute now God will blow up another tower of God.
God's making promises that God will make everything right, and God can safely sleep, then God discovers God is just another liar, and God promises to do a better job if God is elected.
God's in hospital with cancer and will be dead within the week, and God just realised he hasn't done anything.
God's on the television dropping bombs and killing children,
Gassing God to death and burying God in mass graves.
God's protesting against God's war, and God's in riot gear arresting God for inciting peace.
God's eating junk food and God is overweight, mainly because God doesn't do any exercise, and God will become another statistic, but that's what each God is.
God is raping God, exploiting and smuggling and trading God.
God's sitting on the bus listening to his iPod and not making eye contact, cos God is bored and lonely, and maybe God's out to get him.
God is everywhere doing what God does, God is just God,
And though we children of God might have forgotten this,
We will keep killing in Gods name, because God is always right-
That's how wise God is.
London, England
3/8/2008 (c) B.W. Wild
Your love Is So Strong It Kills Me Cartoon
by Morgan Jones
Little Green Aliens Cartoon
by Chesty La-Roux
Punk 'R' Us Drawing
by Alison Border
God On God Poem
by Ben Wild