I'm not a poet. I don't sit in coffee shops and sip black coffee with a beret balancing precariously atop my head. Hats look bad on me.
I'm not a poet. Words don't simply drip from my fingertips like water from a leaky faucet. No, I have to search for them and once I find them they don't always fit. So as you can see, I'm not a natural.
I'm not a poet. My name is Melanie, not Shakespeare or Poe...it just doesn't have that same dark, mysterious ring so necessary for all of the great poets.
I'm not a poet. Generally, I'm happy, and as far as I've seen, most poets have tainted pasts, scars that haunt each word of every poem. I was raised in the midwest in a healthy, middle-class family. And that's what scares me the most.
No matter how often I try to convince myself that poetry isn't for me, I fall back on it like a familiar pillow. It feels good. It's worn and simple and somehow perfect.
I'm not a poet: I just write what I feel, what's on my mind, and oftentimes, what's completely irrelevant.
Maybe one day, I'll convince myself that it's poetry.
But until then, I'm just your average college-bound teenage mid-western wreck.
And that's the way I like it.
I'm not a poet. Words don't simply drip from my fingertips like water from a leaky faucet. No, I have to search for them and once I find them they don't always fit. So as you can see, I'm not a natural.
I'm not a poet. My name is Melanie, not Shakespeare or Poe...it just doesn't have that same dark, mysterious ring so necessary for all of the great poets.
I'm not a poet. Generally, I'm happy, and as far as I've seen, most poets have tainted pasts, scars that haunt each word of every poem. I was raised in the midwest in a healthy, middle-class family. And that's what scares me the most.
No matter how often I try to convince myself that poetry isn't for me, I fall back on it like a familiar pillow. It feels good. It's worn and simple and somehow perfect.
I'm not a poet: I just write what I feel, what's on my mind, and oftentimes, what's completely irrelevant.
Maybe one day, I'll convince myself that it's poetry.
But until then, I'm just your average college-bound teenage mid-western wreck.
And that's the way I like it.
- Last seen on Jun 30 12:17 AM 2008. Member since May 27, 2007.
- I'm a amethyst understanding poet for 30 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is ""...and everyone must breathe until their dying breath."".
- I am a 18 year old girl from Missouri (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm saving the world, eating twinkies, wasting my time...you know, the usual..
- I have 30 comments, 17 poems
My Poetry
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Sometimes, / and only sometimes, / when I am all alone, / I like to lie to my reflection. / I tell her: / “Listen. You are rich. / You are
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“Lord, please give me strength and remove / the many demons that haunt this car. / It’s in the name of Jesus, your son, / that I pray. / Am
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