Quote: E.E. Cummings

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

-E.E. Cummings

Everyone hopes that after hard times
They will emerge from the cocoon
A beautiful butterfly, full of grace
Resting atop flowers
And dancing through the trees
But what happens if
You emerge from the cocoon
A moth with tattered wings
Still lost and confused
No purpose, no direction
Flitting from light to light
And flame to flame
Getting burned by each one
Is a moth destined to stay a moth?
Or can a moth become a butterfly?


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Quote: Pauline Kael

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."


-Pauline Kael

I Want To Write

I want to write! Every time I think about what I want to do with my life all I can think of is writing. When I imagine my life and my future it always involves writing. I want to write books, poetry, articles. I dream of traveling and writing a travel blog along the way. However, every time I try to write I get stuck. Either I can come up with nothing, or I start something and can't finish it. So where do I go from here? How can I start a career in writing with nothing to write? I need some serious inspiration.

I'm sure I'll find it. Well not super sure, but pretty sure. Of course, then comes the next dilemma. If I find the inspiration and come up with some great writing, how do I get it published? What magazines would print my articles? Is my poetry good enough to be published? Is what I write really even considered poetry? Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. I should probably just focus on finding inspiration and developing my writing.

Adele

I am in love with this woman's music. Her voice is lovely. I'm constantly singing "Rolling In The Deep" to myself.

Poetry Hunt

I'm looking for a good book of poetry. It needs to be something for someone who's fairly new to poetry. I find a lot of the poetry I come across to be pretentious. I don't like it when it feels like the poet was trying too hard to be deep. I prefer poetry that feels like it came from the heart and was written with emotion. I'm looking for something that I can relate to. Any suggestions?

Quote: Sylvia Plath

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” 

-Sylvia Plath

Sanctuaries

If I had a place like this, I'd probably never leave.

Too Far Gone

Too far gone
My soul has been in a coma
For far too long
I don't know
If I can ever come back
To who I was before
Before all the pain
Before the betrayals
I fear the damage is done
I fear I'll never look up at the sky
And see possibilities and dreams
I fear all I'll ever see
Is blackness and confusion


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More Morning Pages

So far my Morning Pages experiment has been a colossal failure. I fell off the wagon because life got in the way. I have been unable to get back on though. I can't get past how heavy I would feel afterwards.

I understand why I felt heavy. Its because I was stirring up old unresolved feelings that I have been surpressing for a long time. Part of me knows that I should keep it up. Stirring up those feelings is the only way to resolve them and move on. I just don't know if I'm prepared for it. There's a reason I surpressed those feelings in the first place.

I do plan on starting up again, I just don't know when. Soon. There's no sense in losing any possible progress I was making. I just need to get myself ready for it. That heavy feeling is hard to carry around.