kami garcia

a great poem

- Walt Whitman, handwriting  Sabrina Ward Harrison

If you don't know about SWH, you should read this post.

This got me thinking. What makes a great poem? Is it the prose, or the feeling you have while reading it. For me, it's the latter.

I've filled journals upon journals with poetry since I was a kid, and I always come back to the short ones. The ones that can capture a felling or an idea, in just a moment.

Say good-bye to the woman
we once knew
Don't need her anymore
Take her with you

- Unearthed from my journals, 1998


HERE IN THIS MOMENT
I'M GONNA VIBE WITH NO ONE ELSE
THERE IS  A CONVERSATION I NEED TO HAVE WITH ME
IT'S JUST A MOMENT TO MYSELF

- MACY GRAY, "A MOMENT TO MYSELF"

What about you? What's your favorite short poem? Or better yet, write one. I'm going to choose my favorite on Friday, May 15th & send you a little something from the Caster Girls (Sorry, we don't have any Beautiful Creatures ARCs.)

the solitude of my silent suffering

it's been a while since we waded through the swamps of my tortured teenage mind
here's another one from my younger self

try not to suffer through the silence of my solitude...

                                                                      1990

from the pages of my journal

this is on old one

see if you can read my serial killer handwriting