Tag: growing up
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Why Do Adults Lose Their Imaginations?
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A post and a poem that examines using your imagination as an adult and attempts to answer the question: Do adults lose their imaginations?
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Growing Pains – A Poem
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Growing Pains – A Poem Why are these dreams that stretch out across my heart’s field of desire, That glisten Like droplets of drew sparkling on the morning grass, So hard to obtain, so hard to take to take hold of, And so hard to lasso and pull close to reality? The burden is bearing…
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Second Star To The Right – A Poem About Losing Childhood Innocence
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Second Star To The Right – A Poem About Losing Childhood Innocence My sanctuary of sanity Dresses in new robes everyday. Joyfully furnishing new rooms of solitude Only to find the door locked the very next day. The storm clouds gather, grow like weeds – Stubborn and unable to be wrought out. Their rains fueling,…
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Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up
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Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up I walk alone down the streets of time,Constantly searching, yearning for a home I can call mine.But the migrant bustle, hustle through the downtown streetsMakes it nearly impossible, a distant and unattainable feat.Who are these faces that stare back at me?Why do they appear so alive,…
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The River
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Driven by the forces of the river. Drifting through the bends. Destined to be deposited into the vast, open sea where uncertainty begins. A longing makes its lodging deep inside, afraid of where I’m going, longing for what I’m leaving behind. I call out, “River, stop this instant. Throw me upon your banks. March me…
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