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Ideas Swirling in my Head

September 28, 2015
By writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


My juvenile hand grips a pale yellow pencil
Sets delicately on the milk white paper
A storm comes and
My hand flies across the page
My thoughts spill out onto the paper
Like someone sliced my stomach
I have to let these ideas out of my head!
They are overtaking me and
I can no longer deny them
My hand is in agony
But I can’t stop.
These thoughts, hopes, dreams,
demand to come out.
I spill my guts on the page.
New ideas like lightning strikes
Raining down from Heaven.
I write
I write some more
and some more.
Gradually, my hand slows.
Peace has come after the storm.
I breath out
Not realizing that I had been holding my breath
I stare at my writing.
Is this me?
All these ideas
like debris from a tornado
Are waiting to be used.
When will their time come?


The author's comments:

What inspired me was that I have many ideas, prompts, hopes and dreams stored away in my head. I need to write them on paper or else I could run the risk that I could forget them. This poem came to me. I hope that readers will take from this to record special parts of their lives so they can use those parts for writing. 


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on Nov. 2 2015 at 8:30 pm
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Thank you! @beyondthesky! I really appreciate it and I understand! Thanks again! God bless! :)

on Nov. 1 2015 at 9:12 pm
beyondthesky PLATINUM, Santa Monica, California
34 articles 3 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
-L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

YES YES YES this is so accurate...sometimes I'm even sitting in class and I just start writing and and totally forget that I'm in a public place lol...love this

on Oct. 9 2015 at 1:15 pm
writer-violist DIAMOND, Jenks, Oklahoma
63 articles 4 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Thanks CNBono17! It means a lot to me! God bless! :)

on Oct. 9 2015 at 9:26 am
CNBono17 SILVER, Rural, South Carolina
5 articles 0 photos 248 comments

Favorite Quote:
Lego ergo sum (Latin—I read, therefore, I am)
The pen is mightier than the sword—unknown
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity—1 Timothy 4:12

My gosh, I can totally relate to this! I've done this so many times...I've got like eight or nine stories floating around, plus a dozen more that have never been committed to paper! Incredible job! God bless:)