Selfawareness Poems
Stranger to Belonging
by Nai'a Safir
I am most at peace when others would break,
Floating above my body after the fall,
Calm in the car that became our home,
Finding stillness in what should destroy.
They ask who I am-as if I should know,
......
linguistic structure
by Soulayma A.
I have recently learned how to make adjectives out of nouns;
the components are problem and a person, joining together to make a "problematic" one..
it's me, I'm the problem—atic one.
I developed my skills to create the problem and to solve it;
The fear and the one who is full of it is "fearful", while the one who is stripped of everything he once had will be called "fearless".
P.S. Both of them still have the root "fear-" inside of them.
Pixelated Vibrations
by Christine Kuruvilla
Vibrations resonate down my spine,
Transmitted through invisible lines.
Multicoloured, unseen waves,
Eat slowly through my waking days.
Look out—see the birds, the flowers,
Feel the rhythm of passing hours.
The yellow sand, the endless sky,
A kind hello, a thank you, goodbye.
......
It's Too Much
by Haley Breniser
I am awake.
My mind, a murmuration of starlings.
Unsettled;
By grief
By love
By the weight of tending to others.
I close my eyes and
see it falling.
The snow,
......
Stranger to Belonging
by Nai'a Safir
I am most at peace when others would break,
Floating above my body after the fall,
Calm in the car that became our home,
Finding stillness in what should destroy.
They ask who I am-as if I should know,
......
Pixelated Vibrations
by Christine Kuruvilla
Vibrations resonate down my spine,
Transmitted through invisible lines.
Multicoloured, unseen waves,
Eat slowly through my waking days.
Look out—see the birds, the flowers,
Feel the rhythm of passing hours.
The yellow sand, the endless sky,
A kind hello, a thank you, goodbye.
......
It's Too Much
by Haley Breniser
I am awake.
My mind, a murmuration of starlings.
Unsettled;
By grief
By love
By the weight of tending to others.
I close my eyes and
see it falling.
The snow,
......
linguistic structure
by Soulayma A.
I have recently learned how to make adjectives out of nouns;
the components are problem and a person, joining together to make a "problematic" one..
it's me, I'm the problem—atic one.
I developed my skills to create the problem and to solve it;
The fear and the one who is full of it is "fearful", while the one who is stripped of everything he once had will be called "fearless".
P.S. Both of them still have the root "fear-" inside of them.
