Poems from vseidner
Hiiiiii!
I'm Vanessa!
I'm seventeen and a senior in high school.
I love, love, LOVE to write and I like to explore different topics.
Check out my most recent poem,
Knuckles, which is about evolving and fighting a fear head on (for the-you guessed it-Fight the Fear Scholarship Slam).
Also read
Lukewarm Avidity, which is *gasp* NOT about me! Even though I included "I's"! It's just told through another girl's perspective. Hint hint: it's from a show I'm lucky to have come across,
Standards, which I think is kind of funny, since it's about how all the media I've consumed has made my standards for men impossibly high. See if you can guess who I'm referring to! (There are four), Contentment, where I explore what it would be like to be in a long term relationship with someone, Domesticity, which is about my possible inner thoughts about settling down with someone when I graduate college, La Vida, which is in Spanish! (wow), I Would Like, where I took a risk and created a poem entirely of dialogue,
Any Questions?
Which is really deep and meaningful, man, and Thanks: An Open Letter to Everyone Who Has Wronged Me.
It's for the O Captain, My Captain Contest.
Who knew that bullies could teach you so much?
Have a great day!
I know what you're thinking-
Not the echidna.
I see them-
massive structures of meat and bone
clenched
intent
on destruction
hurled at...
Calloused hands
Strings of Gold
In three bands
(or so I’m told)
Jet Black Studs
Turquoise Hair
With heat, my face floods
As I catch his...
Why
Am I
Still
A Single
Item?
Perhaps
it is
Ridiculous
Expectations
I possess
Out of habit
Can’t be helped
Apparently
I can’t have
A...
The God of Small Things in one hand
The waist of my world wrapped around, the other
We sit in mezzo-silence,
My murmuring the words of Roy’...
Do I want
It?
23, responsibility free
Single? (possibly ready to mingle)
Five years master (double major)
Beautiful disaster, double the...