Day 5

Write a 20-line poem about a memorable moment in your life.

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"Twenty"

Seeing the world with brand new eyes

Beginning to learn for the first time

Still trying to play without a care in the world

It's all fun and games for this little girl

They all seem so strict, teachers I meet

They all are so different, the students I'm with

They pile and they pile this mountain of responsibility

I'm learning to grow and expand my vicinity

The coming years are all a surreal blur

In school, at home, so many things that occur

Under appreciation breeds insecurity

Taking for granted this lost life's vitality

Growing old and growing up

Finding ways to make it all stop

I'm learning to be strong, trying to be wise

I finally know what I want out of life

Seeing the world with brand new eyes

With wings I've expanded, I've learned how to fly

Eyes to the sky, feet on the earth

Twenty years and counting, all of memorable worth

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You don't need to tell me. My poem is no Shakespearean sonnet. The last time I wrote I poem was eons ago, and that was a raiku or haiku or rangu, I forgot the name. All I remember is it was a bunch of bite-sized Japanese style poems about random topics. I don't know, but I showed them to my weird artsy-fartsy friend and seat mate at that time and he said he liked them. They were pretty good, if I do say so myself. But damn it to mergatroid, I forgot what the poems were and I lost them to time and scatter-brained-ness. Ugh.

So there. It's been a long time since I've written a poem. As you may or may not have noticed, the poem, "Twenty" is not about a single spectacular life experience. Rather, it's about my life as a whole, each line an ode to each year of my existence. I couldn't think of a single amazing life event so I decided to create one about my life.. so far.