Rainy, but what a stunning sight nonetheless. I'm jealous! I hope you post about some of your travel experiences, I'm sure a lot of us would love to read about your time there!
What I always appreciate about your poetry is that you give the reader what feels like just the right number of details and amount of description: Not too little, not too much. I can imagine this is two old friends meeting, or a couple that used to date, or cousins that once had a falling out, and all of those scenarios work. It allows for a broadening of the mind, when you can fill in your own details based on your own life experiences (I pictured these characters as old friends, because of a particular broken friendship in my past).
You always have a few lines that get me, too. "We stare // As though we will have // To paint each other later // From memory" describes that one kind of stare people give, perfectly!
Your pride for your heritage shines through, and it's such a beautiful thing to see. I hope you know that not everyone feels hatred toward you or your people, or wishes to see you crumble; there are those who find only curiosity in/admiration for cultures other than their own, and know they can only add color to the tapestry that makes up our country. Thank you for sharing a piece of your identity with us.
I've felt this before, and I have two things that helped me that may help you. First, I tried to take a break from writing, or even just writing different styles, something completely different from what I would otherwise write. The YWP challenges are really helpful with this. Another thing that I did, related to this, was to focus on drawing and other forms of art. I'm not much of an artist, but it's still really fun and I find myself getting into it really easily. Hope this helps, and by the way I really like this piece!
It's so stupid. I also notice it in public middle school, you can literally draw lines between the "cool kids" and the "not cool kids". I find that it's better in the private school I go to part time but still there are some unspoken rules that I tend to follow about who can be friends with who.
Thank you so much!
Rainy, but what a stunning sight nonetheless. I'm jealous! I hope you post about some of your travel experiences, I'm sure a lot of us would love to read about your time there!
What I always appreciate about your poetry is that you give the reader what feels like just the right number of details and amount of description: Not too little, not too much. I can imagine this is two old friends meeting, or a couple that used to date, or cousins that once had a falling out, and all of those scenarios work. It allows for a broadening of the mind, when you can fill in your own details based on your own life experiences (I pictured these characters as old friends, because of a particular broken friendship in my past).
You always have a few lines that get me, too. "We stare // As though we will have // To paint each other later // From memory" describes that one kind of stare people give, perfectly!
Your pride for your heritage shines through, and it's such a beautiful thing to see. I hope you know that not everyone feels hatred toward you or your people, or wishes to see you crumble; there are those who find only curiosity in/admiration for cultures other than their own, and know they can only add color to the tapestry that makes up our country. Thank you for sharing a piece of your identity with us.
Thank you so much for enjoying my writing <3
And yes I’ve been trying to find better methods to get me back into writing, I’ll take your advice into account :)
I've felt this before, and I have two things that helped me that may help you. First, I tried to take a break from writing, or even just writing different styles, something completely different from what I would otherwise write. The YWP challenges are really helpful with this. Another thing that I did, related to this, was to focus on drawing and other forms of art. I'm not much of an artist, but it's still really fun and I find myself getting into it really easily. Hope this helps, and by the way I really like this piece!
Thank you
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Thank you so much for reading! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :))
It's so stupid. I also notice it in public middle school, you can literally draw lines between the "cool kids" and the "not cool kids". I find that it's better in the private school I go to part time but still there are some unspoken rules that I tend to follow about who can be friends with who.