January 2014 – Page 3 – thoughts of Melissa

Day 14- Write a bad poem, make it as lousy as you can, do everything wrong, let yourself be awful.

Stringing words together like paper,

Fire dancing,

Movement like water vapor.

Toward you I am glancing.

That morning I gave you my heart,

But the world never knew me at all.

I need a new start,

I’m going to fall.

In the dirt.

Mud.

Oops.

Well…..

This is gross.

I think

I need

A shower.

(Sidenote: I tried my best to make this awful. I forced myself to make crappy rhymes, the topic makes pretty much no sense, and then I just got sloppy at the end and went totally off-track AND out of structure. So… yay for awful poetry!)

30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 14

Quote• Posted on January 22, 2014January 17, 2018 by melissaburgess

Day 13- Write a short poem that a child would like.

The dog wags its tail,

The dog barks,

Woof! Woof!

I smile at it.

Does it smile back?

I pat its head,

Its tail goes,

Thump! Thump!

Dogs are nice.

The dog wags its tail.

I smile,

We play.

30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 13

Quote• Posted on January 21, 2014January 17, 2018 by melissaburgess

Day 12- Tell your life story in 6 words.

(Holy crap, I am expecting this to be very difficult.)

(…. okay yep, this is hard.)

Innocence,

Growth,

Battle,

Survival,

In progress.

(Really not sure how I feel about this. But like… my life story, anyone’s life story, is all about growth, getting through daily battles and struggles with things, surviving through anything, and in the end… we’re all still works in progress.)