A longing to create

I wrote this poem as part of my poem challenge. That challenge, which was to write a poem every day for as long as I can, has ended. About 3 days ago. I admit, I had missed a few days, but that was mostly because a poem was unfinished and I was thinking it over. This poem is called "A longing to create". I really like to sew, cut and paste, make crafty things, and just generally create new stuff. But I've been kind of uninspired lately so that is where the inspiration came from. In my head, it is more like spoken word, so imagine someone reading it like that...

A longing to create

 

There is a longing to create

flowing through my veins 

from my heart to my brain

just giving me pain

and it's a strain

to contain

wills and desires

a glittery lust

settling dust

of ashes burnt

from a muse's flame

who inspires 

who retains

thoughts and ideas

 withholding

possibilities

oppourtunities

creativity

and imagination

in a world littered

with diamonds and pearls

lost pieces of hope

sailing the river of soul

from my brain to my heart

flowing veins of art

suppressed in part

by time and chance

forever obstructing

the natural flow

eternally fueling

my longing to create.

Written March 21st 2011

♥ Turtles

Loneliness

I decided to enter a Spanish writing competition at my school where you can enter a short story, an essay or a poem. And of course I wrote a poem, because I suck at short stories and the thought of attempting more Spanish grammar than necessary, is not particularly appealing.

I finished my poem on Sunday after thinking about it for the whole weekend. It's called La soledad or Loneliness. It rhymes in Spanish, but not too much in English. The Spanish version is first, and then my English translation (it sounds better in Spanish :P)

La soledad

La soledad
es una oportunidad
para examinar la realidad
de ayer

La soledad
no da racionalidad
pero la claridad
en el mundo

La soledad
es una invisibilidad
y una dualidad
nadie puede ver

La soledad
es la tragedia de edad;
la longevidad
de tiempo

La soledad
es fragilidad;
es la casualidad
de ser.

Loneliness

Loneliness

is an opportunity

to examine the reality

of yesterday

Loneliness

does not bring rationality

but rather clarity

in the world

Loneliness

is an invisibility

and a duality

no one can see

Loneliness

is the tragedy of age;

the longevity

of time

Loneliness

is fragility;

it is the casualty

of being

♥ Turtles

Challenges

Because it's cute

Lately I've been thinking about ways to motivate myself into doing what needs to be done, or what I would like to do. Like right now, I supposed to be preparing a five minute oral Spanish presentation for tomorrow for which I have no research or desire to do. The guy I'm doing (José Martí), was someone I studied in gr 11 English and because of my hoarding habits, I still have my report, sources and PowerPoint. I'm procrastinating and will probably just translate everything. But see, that's my problem, no motivation. Oh, and I get distracted by television very very very very very very very very very often.

But in terms of things I would like to do, I have decided to set some goals for myself. After spending copious hours on YourPants, I came across three challenges I'm going to attempt.

#1) 50 Book Challenge

I love to read but I never seem to finish books. I would start them, get half way through, start another and so on and so on. And if I remember the plot well enough, I don't go back until I forgot what exactly has happened. For example, the excellently written book, A Telling of Stars, by Caitlin Sweet, is one I have started about 5 times. Each time I get a bit further, and although this is one of the few books I own and one that has quite fantastic, I have yet to finish it. So that's why I'm doing this. 50 books in one year. It's doable.



#2) 30 Day Drawing/Art Challenge

The "/Art" part was really needed cuz I'm a crap drawer. I'm good at "turning junk into cool junk" as one of my friend's dad said, but drawing is a weakness. Each day there is a new theme that I shall attempt to tackle. I've never taken a class or had any natural ability, but hey. What the heck.

#3) Project 365

I don't know how well this one will turn out or even if it will be sucessful, but I'll try. It's basically taking a picture everyday. There is already one obstacle seeing as I am not currently in possesion of a decent camera, but I guess that will just force me to be creative :)

I won't post updates daily cuz it's really not that interesting and I'm trying to limit my computer time, so weekly I guess (although the book thing will probably be less since a book a week is NOT happening at this time).

These should be quite the interesting challenges... anywho, back to Spanish -_-

♥ Turtles

F.Y.I. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
 
Edit!!!

 No longer am I doing the art challenge, but a poem challenge where I write a poem everyday for as long as I can. More here :)