I’ve been writing ever since I can remember, as a child receiving a cool journal to write in was as exciting as getting a doll. Throughout the years, I’ve come to love expressing myself in poetry, especially free verse poems because I don’t like to write according to any rule nor anyone. The following few poems all revolve around the theme of “thoughts”, my expertise because I only overthink like… all the time.
A thought.
For those first few seconds
when I wake up,
right before the alarm goes off,
I’m thinking about nothing,
and then the first thought of
the day hits;
how nice would it be
for my mind to be in peace
for a few seconds longer…
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Thoughts, and others.
We sit in a small room filled with
our own thoughts of the world,
all excited about what awaits for us outside the door.
Then, once we step into the unknown,
and we realize it is not
just us and ourselves anymore.
We are surrounded by others,
others with many different destines,
and the world seems too
pretty and scary to be shared.
Fear consumes us,
we almost believe that
we can’t breathe anymore.
But we are alive,
still moving forward and
having a foreign taste of air.
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Thoughts vs. Reality.
At first,
I thought you
were special
because you made
my heart play
beautiful melodies,
it turns out that
my heart is the
special one
because it plays
beautiful melodies.
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Poetic Thoughts.
I always thought
my life would make
a pretty interesting novel,
but when I tried to put
the words together,
poetry came out,
it was just far more
complicated than a novel
as my life is full of
reading in-between the lines,
with the lines not even being parallel.