Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Compose a poem about rejection.
This doesn't just have to be in a romantic sense; rejection can come in many forms!
Writings
I stare at the food,
My mind immediately rejects
The thought of savoring
Something so damaging.
I feel no hunger anymore,
The pain has been consumed.
I reject the horrors that will come
And bite the pain anew.
I am numb with confusion,
These words do not add up.
I will reject my image
Until I am enough....
Needle piercing my skin
Warm blood dripping down
Organs, pink and functioning
Living
Piercing resurfacing to the thinnest layer of skin
Getting infected
Rejected
Organs shutting down, broken
And brown
Organs failing
Rejecting life
Hair prosperous and healthy.
Skin shining in the sun
Hair falling out and brittle
Skin crusty, cracking
Falling off...
She steps on the scale.
Just for extra precautions.
In case of extra measures.
When she wakes up,
When she sleeps.
In her dreams, there’s a woman or two.
Slender, with fat dripping down, her skin flapping, she’s a bird flying to the sun.
There’s a woman,
She is ever so large, plummeting down to her.
She wakes up, and doesn’t take a deep breath, she walks over to her scale.
It’s m...
I’m sorry Father.
I am, father.
For my father, I will ignore.
For his Father, I will sweat.
And as a bead of sweat rolls down my head.
I’ll look down.
Perhaps up.
I will sweat into the pool of Holiness.
My reflection staring back at me.
Hands interrupting our contact as they splash water into my face.
My eyes closed shut,
My mouth gaping for air,
My mother frowning.
I’m f...
The nearest building beckoned me,
a white cross slicing the sky
like a wound in flesh,
a pale welcome to the foolhardy.
Five feet to the ground
might as well have been five hundred;
the earth stretched wide.
Up there, beside God,
I could not be afraid.
He was silent, watching
with indifferent eyes as I leapt.
No holy hand reached out
to catch me as I tore
through heaven’s thin skin.
I expec...
On the advent of change
The swinging pendulum between
Love and pain
The somber look through
The window pane
The left turn on the freeway
The tumbling of the blocks
You so carefully arrange
And the opportunity
For them to be
New
Or the same
Or put together in an all new way
To be forced to turn around
Is to change your perspective
To the trail you’ve been following
And a chance to cor...
(Verse 1)
I ripped my heart out, it’s all I had to give ya,
Doesn't matter now, you're gone and took my sunshine with ya.
Left me in this dusty town, this nowhere conversation,
Crumpled me like notebook paper, no hesitation.
(Chorus)
Choked on your rejection, a bitter aftertaste,
Like the whole damn world coughed me up and slammed my face.
Guess I wasn't pretty enough, my heart not...
Guess what I imagined today
I imagined that you caught me crying
And feeling miserable
And for some reason,
I just pour out everything that happened to me
And then you wrap me in a hug
Kiss my head
And say it’s OK I’m here for you
Telling me it’s not my fault
Whispering comforting words.
Then I snapped back to reality.
I shook my head, knowing that wouldn’t happen
But I hope it’s OK so fan...