Ready for the challenge to be the best (me).

I believe I am overlooked way too much. I'm too great for you to just bypass me as the shy girl who claims to be a poet. Y'all already know how amazing I am, so this statement need not apply.

Anyway, this is cramming month and I have loads to do between now and exams. A lot of what I have to do depends on my diligence and discipline as opposed to just attending class and obtaining information.

Even with all that current and oncoming stress, I'm going try my best to finish this monthly poetry challenge. I've felt like I haven't been close to my craft like before and I've learned that sometimes inspiration has to be forced. For example, I wouldn't have written a poem about my neck cramp earlier if I hadn't had one at that moment (still coping with it). I've had some poems on the backburner for a while, and I'm hoping to flush and bring them out as well.

Anyway, this cramp is killing me. Despite the gorgeous day, I'm going to lay down in hopes of the pain subsiding at least a little bit.

Enjoy your day, my dear.

Ode to my twin Part 1 (poem 5/30)

Twirling curls with her left hand
While embellishing eyes on her right
I admire her overcoming time
Never slacking on her beautiful face.


(True story...)

The art of evading sleep: Poem 3/30

Fatigue dances across my eyelids
Begging for its debut on a closed audience
Promoting daydreams like want ads
In the form of bothersome telemarketers


I've avoided you for hours
With a list of grievances:


I've been a midnight ghostwriter for years
Birthing poetry from unknown depths


Temporarily living in the land
Of houses doing balancing tricks on hills
And malls the size of small colleges

I've already slept my life away
Without the help of a bed

Surpassing chances
Instead of overcoming obstacles

Why not take this everchanging world
And live with eyes open?

I'm up in the air... (Haikus 2-2.5/30 1/2/2009)

I'm living so high
That the sun needs me to shine
Royal decadence.

***

The rise above the clouds
Was necessary for life
Though heights aren't for me.


(Wrote these on my first plane ride in life...yeah sad I know lol)

Prelude. (poem 1/30 - 1/1/2009)

Blanket me in rainbows
Lined with neutral colors
Because I can't choose one color,
Creed or sex to permanently receive

I love freely.

Touch me
Feel my fire burn
With a passion for life
And love handled recklessly
Because every scar bears new skin
Underneath

I refuse to be a cliche.
Phases are for moons
I live in explosions
Emotions light fuses
Keeping the cold from
Rushing into my bones

Stop.

If you look at me
You'll see my obscurities
Broken behind bright smiles
Held in my cheek
Popping like rock candy
Then swallowed whole
Letting the sugar feed my brain
And taunt my nerves
So my heart can write words.