The two rocking chairs
became a metronome
as they pushed forward
and back on a wide, white, wooden porch.
A mother and daughter
watching the sunset,
drinking cold, crisp ice tea.
Memories seem to resurface
as the common day is discussed.
The mother
shares stories
of when her daughter was young.
“Do you remember
when we use to
go on adventures together out here?
We’d play pretend all afternoon.
We fought and conquered the world.
Dressing up as pirates, queens, and knights!
You’d soar up into the sky
as I pushed you on that swing right there.
You always wanted to go higher and higher!
You were so fearless.” her mother said.
“I wasn’t always fearless,
remember when I was scared of the thunder?
Its loud roaring scared me,
rattling the windows and shaking the walls.
I’d run to your room and get into bed with you.
It didn’t matter how late it was
you would whisper in my ear
a quiet song…
I can’t remember what it was.
But, you sang that song until we both fell asleep.
I’ll never forget that.”
said the daughter.
The mother began to sing…
“The storm is rough, but our hearts beat slow.
I’ll always be here to hold you close.
Close your tired eyes
and dream of bright blueskies ….”
The daughter joined in….
“Softly drift into a dream, where there I’ll always be.”
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As a college student graduating this spring semester from Arizona State University, with a BA in Creative Writing and a minor in Women's Studies, expanding my audience of friends, colleges, mentors, and teachers is crucial for a writer to grow. I started writing poetry and fell in love with the forms, the intensity of description, and the craft. Fiction has allowed me to elaborate on the story, characters, and plot standing and hiding behind the words of a poem. Both poetry and fiction have taught me the agony, the blood and sweat, and even aggravation hiding behind each piece of writing that is read. As Walt Whitman puts it, "A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls."
I started writing because of life's heartbreaks, beauties, in-be-tweens, and as my own way of expression. A piece of paper never judges an idea or an identity. A reader can always find a piece of themselves in a piece of writing that is written by someone who puts themselves within the words. An emotion, experience, character, setting, or even something as small as a description can ignite a memory. Writing surpasses all boundaries between age, generation, and human nature.
The more I write the more I begin to notice how impossible it is for life and fiction to be separated, they both influence one another; life and creativity, life and imagination. Life and fiction as ideas contain an umbrella of words, meanings, and creations all different for each individual. We all live, we all create. "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath.
So, ask yourself, life or fiction?
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein
I am passionately curious what you think.
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Can you please write a poetry book so I can have it all forever and ever?? 😩❤️❤️
You saying that means the world to me! ❤️ I wish I could do that & get it published 🤞🏼 I can write you all of my work and give it to you for Christmas though 💕
I wish you could do that too!! I would buy it in a heart beat! I love your work and I would love that! 😭❤️❤️❤️
Do you want all of the poems from the blog?? ❤️ Thank you SO much! That means the world to me that YOU love my work 😍 Your opinion means a lot to me
Yes! Maybe even some you haven’t put up! It’ll be like my own personal book and I’m so excited 😭😭😭
Yay! I can definitely do that for you!! ❤️ It really does warm my heart to know that someone likes my writing. I need to be more diligent about posting though 😓
I’m so glad! I make sure I read every post when you do! ❤️ haha but I know what you mean! I don’t post as often as I’d like 😓