Hey there! This week’s Wordy Wednesday is going to be a collection of shorter “poems” (really just a bunch of random little stanzas I’ve got saved places) about a collection of random things. Most of these are from my phone, typed haphazardly during vacation trips or at two in the morning when I can’t sleep.
Sorry for not writing more of an intro–I’ve got like a bazillion hours of homework to do today, already, so, yeah. Yay for college.
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It sounds like summer
and smells like graduation,
So many moments you were
afraid to live because they were already
memories you were afraid to lose
*****
My life is
something
less than
perfect
right now.
*****
New York City
is a beautiful cliche.
*****
The plight of the writer
is that the air, the trees, the birds
are full of stories, heavy
on your chest, pressing
your fingers into the Earth
as roots, and you
may only choose one to breathe in–
oxygen–
against the screaming in your ears.
Only one against the
thousands.
Only one against
the weight, to lift
you
up
to fly.
*****
The more we preserve
of the past,
the less we have
for the future.
*****
Life encourages life.
*****
Every minute I spend in New York City
wakes me up, fills my lungs with
air purer than feeling, a gas that somehow
makes oxygen heavy, that forces
my eyes open, wider, wider, with
every inhale–and the corners of
my mouth lift higher, freer, fuller,
go, go, go but now
stay–
with every exhale.
Stay here
in the magic, in the moment;
don’t leave and be ordinary.
Please don’t be
ordinary.
Please.
Don’t.
Go.
*****
Things feel slow
while they’re happening.
It’s only when you look back
that they sped by
too
fast.
*****
My life is not a love story.
It’s not a Nicholas Sparks novel.
I don’t want it to be.
I like where I am
without that part.
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~Julia
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Some of these are very profound! I like them.
“So many moments you were afraid to live because they were already memories you were afraid to lose”
“The more we preserve of the past, the less we have for the future.” [i.e. We shouldn’t hold onto the past too tightly, or it will hold us there, making it difficult to move into the future]
“Life encourages life.”
“Things feel slow while they’re happening. It’s only when you look back that they sped by too fast ” [This is sooo true!]
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“New York City
is a beautiful cliche.”
That was my favorite. 😀 I like random things. I actually have a document on my computer just titled “Thoughts” where words that don’t really go anywhere else end up. It almost makes writing more fun that way, being scattered.
It makes me think of the quote “Creative minds are rarely tidy.” I definitely felt like I was reading through your mind when I read through these. Thanks for posting.
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