Ugly Steps

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. Mindy and Lenore have practically grown up together, starting out in kindergarten and getting ready to start their freshman year of high school. Lenore was decent looking, really nice, more of the quiet, shy, and soft spoken one, came from a good set of parents that sent her on the road of straight and narrow. Mindy on the other hand was stunningly beautiful, the outgoing, loud, rebel one, had some good parents that tried to make their daughter a tad more like her best friend, but not everything goes as we initially planned.

The girls were out at the mall doing some late school shopping and just walking around and having a good time. They went to every store they could think of and bought all of the cutest clothes. Lenore was excited for school to start but she was really nervous because she isn’t like her best friend, not only does everyone know her, but everyone likes her, Lenore on the other hand just blended in with the crowd and was known as more of “that friend of Mindy’s” so she was scared that when she got to high school, Mindy would go off and make tons of new friends and Lenore will be left by herself. Mindy though was super excited for high school, all of the movies and stories people tell about “High School being the best days of your life” were just building her excitement over the summer, and now the time was finally here and she couldn’t wait for the journey to begin.

They walk into Payless Shoes and they are going up and down the shoe aisle, boxes of shoes slowly piling up in the arms making it hard for them to see and causing them to stumble all over the place. They finally find a bench where they can sit and make the final decision of which shoes they want to have. Lenore is trying on one after another, as is Mindy, neither of the girls are paying too much attention to one another, busy with their own thing. Lenore looks up after some time to see if her friend was ready to go yet, and when she started from the floor going up, she was almost taken back by what she saw. Lenore’s mother has always told her daughter “Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet.” When Lenore was feeling down about herself, causing Lenore to laugh and always remembered this old time saying. That’s why she was so surprise when she say that Mindy… Mindy Metalman, the prettiest girl in all of their school had the most blistered, hairy, wart infested, long nasty toe nails, and the ugliest feet she had ever seen.

                When Mindy and Lenore started high school, the girls were sitting at lunch with some friends, they were all making jokes and talking about embarrassing things about themselves. Mindy told them she had one that would top all of theirs and she continued to take her shoe off and expose her still disgusting feet to the group, they all laughed and made jokes, and soon all of the girls were laughing, Mindy wasn’t known as the prettiest girl in school anymore, she was just known as the “pretty girl with ugly feet” and as for Lenore, she wasn’t known as “the pretty girl with ugly feet, friend.” She was just known as Lenore, and together the girls took down high school, one big ugly step at a time.

Writers as Readers

I think that if you read you do become a better writer because you learn different ways to phrase things and more unique words to use. I think that we see a word or sentence or something the way someone said that you like and you pick it up and start using it. I can speak from experience because I love writing and no one sat me down one day and handed me a pencil and said “now this is how you write a story that will wow someone.” No, I read a lot of books with descriptive things and words that aren’t used very often and characters that have sparked an idea in my mind, and I take what they write and make it my own. Writing helps me a lot in all different aspects of my life and I can honestly say that reading books and poetry has played a big role in it.

I really hope to write a book one day because I love writing and I love story telling. Personally, I think I am pretty good at it. Writing is one of my favorite things to do and I really would like to one day take my stories further out into the world for more people than just my high school friends to see. I would like to do something with my future that revolves around writing.  

I think if I were to write a book it would be a biography first because I am the most interesting person I know considering all the things I have been through and done and everyone else seems to like the stories I tell about some event I have been through, so why not a big book about all of them?

I think what got me started with my passion for writing and wanting to do something with my life with writing in it was when I read a bunch of poetry and just learned a lot about words that really make you feel what the author is feeling or see in your mind what the author is describing because it is in such amazing detail. I was always amazed really good writers were kind of like painters of the imagination, they think something, they write it down, they see it and then we see it too.

Free

I am Free

My mind is open

My invisible eye can see

I have an open mouth

Everyone knows what I think

I say what I feel

I mean what I say

People are intimidated by that and tend to get scared away

Though I am all bark and no bite

I am even no good at killing a fly

I just always say what is on my mind

Dream Threads

Something Like Wonderland

A hole pops up in the ground and I jump inside. I always try my hardest to think about how one day, maybe one day, the world will be rad enough for me to live in. The hole takes me deep underground, on this big slide like thing. After what feels like miles of slipping and sliding all over the place I finally hit the ground, my hands grab the soil just by reaction of falling, but when I pulled my hands up, I didn’t find dirt in between my fingers, instead it was little bits of oreos, oreos! All over the place, it made up the soil! The grass was long pieces of lime flavored liquorish and the sky wasn’t blue, no, the sky was one big tie dye design! This magical place was peeking my interest with every interesting thing I saw.

                I start to further my exploration and as I continue to walk I see the most gorgeous beach with water so crystal blue clear, fields and fields of the tallest and most beautiful sunflowers I have ever seen in my entire life!  The people that inhabited this place were just as amazing as the place itself, everyone was friendly and there was no hate or judgment, or anything negative really. I was completely surrounded by good vibes and all the things I have ever wanted in life. I decided that there is no way I am going back up that hole into boring ole Springfield, Missouri. I am going to stay right down here, where there are good vibes and a tie dye sky.

                My dreams tend to revolve around getting a big adventure.

Color Me Winter

Color Me Winter

Winter cold breath

Snowy days spent in bed

Winter has arrived

Color Poems

Be Mine

Budding romance

There is new love in the air

You can tell their inlove

Forever

Be mine forever

Love me no matter what

I am forever yours