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POEM STARTER
'I wish I had never let go.'
Using this as the opening line, create an emotional poem focusing on how your character feels and what has led them to this point.
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I wish i had never let go…
I didn’t mean to start a war in my mind—
I just wanted someone to like me;
I just want to like myself.
I thought maybe the pain would be worth it; that through the despair and aching
I would come to find love.
But is love ever developed through pain?
I think it can be discovered…right?
I just feel lost—
If only someone could find me....
I wish I had never let go
those childish drawings
treasure hunts, scrapbooking
the random video projects
I just felt proud I could call it mine
young me had no worries
young me smiled so wide
Then came what I wished was my happy days
Lived the rest of my life
head down, no noise, no sound
stopped trying for fear of rejection
and humiliation, embarrassment
fear gripped my present
because of thos...
I wish I had never let go.
Of the hope that burnt out in my heart.
The hope that we could be.
Maybe I was just stupid.
Maybe it was never even a possibility.
But I swear I saw the small spark in your eyes that had matched my blazing flame.
That flame is now flickered out, with nothing to kindle the burn.
It left my heart in ashes, and I wonder if maybe you still hold your spark.
Perhaps yo...
I wish I had never let go
I wish I had never let my old self slip out of my fingertips
I never knew losing yourself could be so easy
Could happen so fast
I have to try to convince myself that this new version of me will be better
That I’m healing
Becoming a new person
A better person
And I do try
I try and be the person who
“Always smiles” like I used to be
But no matter what I do
No mat...
“i wish i had never let go”
is that what you want us to say?
“come back, i need you”
but that isn’t our way
at coups, oh, how we excel
stage one whenever we get bored
and the consequences they reap?
a luxury we will never afford
it’s always for a reason, though
or at least so we tell ourselves
because what’s another lie
to stack up on the shelves?
of course, we’re never the villains
good girls ...
I wish I had never let go.
I’ve forgotten the way
The skin on your fingers felt.
I used to think of them
As velvet, I know that,
Just like the way you spoke.
But, it was all for not.
Your eyes had strayed,
Wistful for what lay
Across the other ridge.
Your hand slipped from mine.
Watching you walk away, smiling,
Shattered my heart
I went to walk after you, but
I couldn’t break my feet
From the g...
I wish I had never let go
That dark brown hair
And matching eyes
Complimenting my lighter
Bluer, blonder features
I wish I had never let go
How we could laugh together
Cry together
Heal together
Even run together
Running from our problems
Running to heal
Running to each other
Running to no one else
Running instead of going to therapy
But now we both need therapy
You go because your now friends
...
I wish I had never let go.
It was getting harder to hold onto.
My hand is bruised from holding onto it all.
When life was bearable with little to no pain.
Now life is filled with pain.
My mother is taken into eternal rest.
My grandmother is taken to eternal rest.
My cat is taken to eternal rest.
My Guinea pigs are taken to eternal rest.
My hamsters are taken to eternal rest.
I’ve let go of mysel...
I fell for him like snow falling from the sky
When my world broke
And my tears made a river
He was there
The day of my mom’s funeral he showed up
He held my hand
And that’s when I fell for him
But you see there is one problem
When you’re falling
You will eventually hit the ground
I hit the ground on the warm summers night
When he told me
That the guy behind the wheel of the car that killed my...
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