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Ideas Swirling in my Head

September 28, 2015
By writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
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writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.&rdquo; <br /> ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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My juvenile hand grips a pale yellow pencil
Sets delicately on the milk white paper
A storm comes and
My hand flies across the page
My thoughts spill out onto the paper
Like someone sliced my stomach
I have to let these ideas out of my head!
They are overtaking me and
I can no longer deny them
My hand is in agony
But I can’t stop.
These thoughts, hopes, dreams,
demand to come out.
I spill my guts on the page.
New ideas like lightning strikes
Raining down from Heaven.
I write
I write some more
and some more.
Gradually, my hand slows.
Peace has come after the storm.
I breath out
Not realizing that I had been holding my breath
I stare at my writing.
Is this me?
All these ideas
like debris from a tornado
Are waiting to be used.
When will their time come?

© Violet B., Phoenix, AZ

The author's comments:

What inspired me was that I have many ideas, prompts, hopes and dreams stored away in my head. I need to write them on paper or else I could run the risk that I could forget them. This poem came to me. I hope that readers will take from this to record special parts of their lives so they can use those parts for writing. 

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writer-violist DIAMOND said...
on Nov. 2 2015 at 8:30 pm
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.&rdquo; <br /> ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Thank you! @beyondthesky! I really appreciate it and I understand! Thanks again! God bless! :)
beyondthesky PLATINUM said...
on Nov. 1 2015 at 9:12 pm
beyondthesky PLATINUM, Santa Monica, California
34 articles 3 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one&#039;s heart, like treasures. I don&#039;t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.<br /> -L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

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YES YES YES this is so accurate...sometimes I'm even sitting in class and I just start writing and and totally forget that I'm in a public place lol...love this
writer-violist DIAMOND said...
on Oct. 9 2015 at 1:15 pm
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.&rdquo; <br /> ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Thanks CNBono17! It means a lot to me! God bless! :)
CNBono17 SILVER said...
on Oct. 9 2015 at 9:26 am
CNBono17 SILVER, Rural, South Carolina
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Lego ergo sum (Latin&mdash;I read, therefore, I am)<br /> The pen is mightier than the sword&mdash;unknown<br /> Don&#039;t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity&mdash;1 Timothy 4:12

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My gosh, I can totally relate to this! I've done this so many times...I've got like eight or nine stories floating around, plus a dozen more that have never been committed to paper! Incredible job! God bless:)