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The Daydream

January 15, 2012
By EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath


I stretch out my wings,
Flap, and you're gone,
An inconspicuous speck
Growing smaller below me.
Up here, you cannot hurt me.
Up here, I am strong.
Up here is my safe place
Where I am an eagle
Until reality brings me tumbling home.



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on Mar. 18 2013 at 8:27 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thank you! You have no idea how much that means to me! I love Emily Dickinson, and indeed I believe this poem was inspired by her. I'm not positive, but I know I've taken inspiration from her before. She had a truely magical way with words.

Mckay ELITE said...
on Mar. 18 2013 at 2:16 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.&quot;<br /> &mdash;Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Think Different&rdquo; commercial, 1997<br /> &ldquo;Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn&#039;t understood.&rdquo; <br /> ― Weihui Zhou

This is exactly how I feel just about every day. "Reality brings me tumbling home"—beautiful. Too, I must day you have some Emily Dickson in you and your poetry. 

on Feb. 15 2013 at 11:32 am
SaphiraBrightscales DIAMOND, Islamabad, Other
75 articles 16 photos 1136 comments

Favorite Quote:
I&#039;ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. <br /> - Maya Angelou <br /> When i was little/I used to point a chubby finger toward the dark sky/And ask my father/why some stars moved and others didn&rsquo;t/He would laugh and explain that some were airplanes/I still wish on them today ~ Laugh-It-Out<br /> The feathers of a crow are black/The ink of my pen is blacker/The pain of my heart is blackest~ Mckay<br /> If love produced a blossom/I&rsquo;d take it in my palm/What a blessing, the bright color!/How soothing, such a balm!/I&rsquo;d keep a petal for my own/The rest, drop from my hands/For such a flower would multiply/And populate the lands~ thesilentraven<br /> And I began to rival legends/Long entombed before my birth./But for all my much envied fame/The lust for more would not abate./The plaques and prizes with my name/Will, like all things, disintegrate. ~ TheEpic95 now known as Helena_Noel

Well, I sure do.

on Feb. 14 2013 at 9:56 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

This is from when I first started writing poetry seriously and it remains one of my favorites. I'm really glad you like it! :D

on Feb. 13 2013 at 2:26 pm
SaphiraBrightscales DIAMOND, Islamabad, Other
75 articles 16 photos 1136 comments

Favorite Quote:
I&#039;ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. <br /> - Maya Angelou <br /> When i was little/I used to point a chubby finger toward the dark sky/And ask my father/why some stars moved and others didn&rsquo;t/He would laugh and explain that some were airplanes/I still wish on them today ~ Laugh-It-Out<br /> The feathers of a crow are black/The ink of my pen is blacker/The pain of my heart is blackest~ Mckay<br /> If love produced a blossom/I&rsquo;d take it in my palm/What a blessing, the bright color!/How soothing, such a balm!/I&rsquo;d keep a petal for my own/The rest, drop from my hands/For such a flower would multiply/And populate the lands~ thesilentraven<br /> And I began to rival legends/Long entombed before my birth./But for all my much envied fame/The lust for more would not abate./The plaques and prizes with my name/Will, like all things, disintegrate. ~ TheEpic95 now known as Helena_Noel

"Tumbling home" = super. This one is so simple yet so powerful.... I read this one thrice :D

on Jan. 15 2013 at 10:03 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thank you so much! :D That really means a lot to me :333333333333 You have no idea how happy that made me!

on Jan. 10 2013 at 6:10 am
thatunknownthing DIAMOND, Dubai, Other
67 articles 0 photos 208 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that&#039;s why they call it the present&quot;

haha. *write, is what i meant.

on Jan. 10 2013 at 6:09 am
thatunknownthing DIAMOND, Dubai, Other
67 articles 0 photos 208 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that&#039;s why they call it the present&quot;

now i'm going to read everything you right. beautiful!

on Apr. 13 2012 at 4:35 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thanks! :D

butterfly123 said...
on Apr. 12 2012 at 2:11 am
butterfly123, Banglore, Other
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hey!

beautiful poem! it flows really well. most of all i love its title. great work and keep writing XD!


on Mar. 9 2012 at 4:26 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thank you for commenting, I always appreciate it when people give me suggestions about my writing. And that line's been bugging me a bit to. Of course, I only noticed the problem once it got posted-figures :)

on Mar. 6 2012 at 9:52 am
FluteFreak SILVER, Auburn, Indiana
8 articles 0 photos 43 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Insanity just adds a little spice to life!&quot; -Me

This is an awesome poem; I almost felt like I was flying while reading it. Although I do agree with snaomi about "up here is my safe place" it does throw the poem off a bit. Mayberry moving Otto directly after "growing smaller below me"?

on Jan. 29 2012 at 4:25 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Yay! Thanks!

on Jan. 29 2012 at 4:17 pm
gossimergrrl BRONZE, Grosse Ile, Michigan
3 articles 1 photo 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Hamlet: Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.&quot; -William Shakespeare

I get really strong, really free feeling from this. Uplifting!

on Jan. 26 2012 at 2:18 pm
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thanks. That's the great thing about daydreams, they take you places you could never go otherwise.

on Jan. 26 2012 at 1:43 pm
babyrex4 SILVER, Buffalo, New York
5 articles 6 photos 191 comments

Favorite Quote:
\&quot;You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.\&quot;<br /> <br /> Author Unknown

I think the whole poem was great! It made me feel like I was in the daydream!

on Jan. 26 2012 at 9:04 am
EPluribusUnum DIAMOND, Woodbine, Maryland
59 articles 24 photos 280 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; <br /> I lift my lids and all is born again.<br /> (I think I made you up inside my head).&quot;<br /> -Sylvia Plath

Thank you :)

on Jan. 22 2012 at 10:12 am
EthanCalhoun PLATINUM, Fairview, New Jersey
30 articles 0 photos 36 comments
I agree with Kimberly but the last 3 lines i think are very good

on Jan. 21 2012 at 8:11 pm
Kimberlywrites BRONZE, Waikoloa, Hawaii
2 articles 3 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
For we have not been given a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind. <br /> <br /> II Timothy 1:7

I love the first three lines. They are beautiful!

on Jan. 21 2012 at 1:21 pm
snaomi PLATINUM, Cheshire, Connecticut
43 articles 0 photos 38 comments
I really like this poem - it has some great images and emotion behind it. The only line I didn't feel like was quite as strong as the others is "up here is my safe place" - the passive verb makes it somewhat less aggressive than the rest. What do you think of going straight from "up here, I am strong" to "Up here I am an eagle"? Nice work!