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!
Soy una artista dibujando un espacio en blanco
No puedo retractarme de mi banco
De memoria
Haciendo historia
Escribiendo rimas me da...
“What can I get you on this fine day?”
“Fine? Are you blind? The sky’s dark gray!”
“That doesn’t matter, today can still be great!
“Who put...
Why is it that people are so afraid of change?
Do they actually find a sense of comfort in the prosaic and predictable?
How is that a way...
To whom it concerns:
To everyone who has taunted and teased me:
For the color of my skin.
For the texture of my hair.
For the hardships my...