Writing Challenge: Write your self-portrait!

[Raz]

These are all so good!

Keep 'em coming! :D

 

[Gog]

I want something
as pretty as I Am
the hair flowing like the wind
and the arms like the trees
I want sixty-four chances for success
and tests to make me question myself
The answer is Nothing, The End

 

[(Wordy)]

These are all so good!

Agreed!

 

[spinkle]

this may actually be the first complete piece i've written this year, and it's certainly my first piece posted here in a while. thanks for the challenge, raz, i needed it


self-portrait

i do not watch,
i examine.
but i have no control
of my attention.
instead of eating, i feed.

i paint poorly, can't draw
worth a damn. i prefer
to use words as colors.

i'm all ajitter, distracted
by somewhere i should have
already been.

if i stop mid-sentence,
my mind moved
to the fourth next topic.

twice a day i dose
to keep from learning
division by zero.

i'm the hummingbird
doing bee's work,
an unkept and empty promise.

i talk too much, and i
have so much trouble with endings.

i obsess till shrill with worry
over what should have been said
even after an irrelevant conversation.

i do not watch, i examine.
but i have no control.

when alone i find myself
preparing explanations
as if about to be caught.

i talk too much, and i
have so much trouble
with endings.

what i painted was a lens.
or a flawed mirror
that only reflects
midnight blue.

so much trouble.


spinkle 2006

 

[(Wordy)]

when alone i find myself
preparing explanations
as if about to be caught.

i talk too much, and i
have so much trouble
with endings.

what i painted was a lens.

Great stuff... I can relate very strongly to these lines!