Poetry

This semester I am in a creative writing class, which is so outside my comfort zone I cannot tell you. Surprisingly, I am so in love with this class! And even better I have been able to create a couple of poems myself:

The Bathtub

I feel lonely even when I am with you.

I feel unloved even when you kiss me.

Being with you was all I ever wanted,

Yet being with you was what hurt me.

 

As the morning birds chirp their melody

I stare into your greenish blue eyes

I know you will hurt me.

But I do not leave.

 

Like being in the bathtub

When the water is scorching hot

And the steam fills the bathroom,

But you do not get out.

 

Because you like the way it feels.

I liked the way you felt, but I

Should have left the bathtub

Sooner.

Sunshine Flowers

I only have my memories of you: the moon shining on the gaudy, maroon rug

I once despised, but now I realize I will never see that rug again. And the

tears begin to swell in my big brown eyes, you once loved.

 

The seeds of daffodils engrossed in the rich, brown soil will soon begin to flourish

and rows and rows of sunshine flowers will emerge. They will sway in the wind,

they will dance in the wind, they will love in the wind, they will be in the wind.

 

And they will be admired-by the hundreds of eager faces, hoping to have

a love like the sunshine flowers. But before long winter will come and freeze

over the beauty of the daffodils.

 

They will seize to sway, dance, love and be. No longer admired,

the hundreds of eager faces will grow sullen, hoping to

never have a love turn cold.

 

See, me and you are the daffodils we flourished, we swayed, we danced, and

we loved. As much we tried to escape it, winter came and our love disappeared.

But come next spring the sunshine flowers will be back.

 

Also the formatting on here is treacherous so I am not sure y’all will be able to see the stanza breaks, which probably upsets me more than you, but I tried so hard to get it to work. Nonetheless, I am excited to get inspired over spring break (hopefully Netflix binges and pizza will get the creative juices flowing).

Happy Blogging!