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Clichéd: A Slam Poem

November 5, 2015
By beyondthesky PLATINUM, Santa Monica, California
beyondthesky PLATINUM, Santa Monica, California
34 articles 3 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one&#039;s heart, like treasures. I don&#039;t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.<br /> -L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)


I find it fairly difficult to write about happiness
or anything that makes my eyes fill with light and my airy soul fly...
or anything that fills me with unending passion and selfless true love!
because
well
can't you see?
it all spurts out in these choppy clichés
I lose all sense of what I'm trying to say
I want to say
I'm happy
but I'm not just happy, it's something more!
stronger than love, stronger than joy
but then
I begin to write about the dark and the light and of spirits and souls
and the sky and the moon and the stars and the sun
and what felt so unique, expressed with this technique, now feels boring and bleak, strong ideas sounding weak!
I continue to write but it feels like a fight as I'm stuck in this plight yet I still need to write
and then
I feel sad and want to cry
I want to sob rivers and streams and oceans
I'm lost and confused
like I'm separated from
myself
I'm unsure of which road to take and I'm drowning, but nobody sees except me                  

So I find it fairly difficult to write about sadness

because
well
can't you see?
It all just sounds like everything else
I just sound like everything else



am I just like

everyone else?



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on Nov. 13 2015 at 10:06 pm
lexmoulton BRONZE, Lawrence, Kansas
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear.&quot; ~ George Orwell

this is literally the way i feel every time is sit down and think, "i'm gonna write something happy now." i relate so much

on Nov. 11 2015 at 6:49 pm
beyondthesky PLATINUM, Santa Monica, California
34 articles 3 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one&#039;s heart, like treasures. I don&#039;t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.<br /> -L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

Thank you so much @Whiskers7151 ! I was trying to overcome writer's block :p

on Nov. 9 2015 at 2:40 pm
Whiskers7151 GOLD, West Valley, Utah
12 articles 2 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
I don&#039;t have an attitude problem, you have a problem with my attitude, and that&#039;s not my problem.

this is one of the best expressive poems i've read in a while.