Monday, May 05, 2008
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A Poem my Daughter Wrote
Im just so proud I had to post it. I cried after I read it.
[Her name]
I am a girl who loves birds
I wonder if the world will end in 2010
I hear chirping near the window
I see trees and flowers
I am a girl who loves birds
I pretend to be in the future
I feel soft feathers in my hand
I touch my bird's scratchy talons
I worry that my life will go by quickly
I cry when I am lonely
I am a girl who loves birds
I understand that devotion and care for our planet will make it last
I say nothing is impossible
I dream of a world where no wars take place
I try to obey the rules given to me
I hope that people will stop at nothing to become what they aspire
I am a girl who loves birds
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Comments (15)
wow! how old is your daughter? she has such wisdom in her writings
@ayla4eva - she turned 9 last winter. She wrote this beginning of school year when she was 8. She's very concerned about things from global warming to the war to comets hitting Earth. She's always been a pretty intense girl, ever since she was toddler (there were also signs when she was a baby).
o.o this is better than what I started writing at 14. DANG! Apparently, talent runs in the family. ;)
@silkenbutterfly - oh, stop! :P Honestly I think she has more talent than I do, judging by her other pieces--she likes to write stories. It's entirely possible she may get published before me. I'm just a proud mama :) And you, howaya?
@hilaw - Why, I am just lovely :D About to move across town on Saturday, but it's to a nicer place. YAY!
Oh, and a good rule of thumb. People who think they are very talented are probably only half as talented as they think they are. People who only think they are moderately talented are probably twice as talented as they think they are. Besides, an artist is always their own worst critic ;)
JESUS. i would be so proud too. an artist in the making, she seems. i wonder what the prompt was.
ah, you make me want to have children...but then i hear the annoying brats outside of my window and i'm in the middle again.
@silkenbutterfly - nicer place is always well, nice :) Good for you.
@BiasedAndOpinionhated - They're great, really. You forget all the bad stuff and remember the good. Have lost a lot of sleep over the lil one--who's growing up so fast and tall. What prompted it--it was an assignment in class, it was a time when she asked a lot about death, I remember. I dunno why she was concerned about dying since hubby and I don't really talk much about it. I merely told her, like how Garp's mother said to him, "We will all die, you, me, daddy, will die. You just have to live life to the fullest."
wow she wrote this at 8-years old? clearly she's got a talent for the literary. quick! nurture it!
@Roninism - thanks. We try. she's so driven.
I've never had any prose published (though I've not tried, yet), but I have had a few pieces of poetry published. I'm not especially motivated to get published, though--worked as the editor for the poetry section of a literary mag for a bit...kinda disillusioned me to the whole literary world and what I perceived to be all kinds of posturing and vying for recognition. Not my bag.
@Roninism - I can totally dig it. Your stuff is great. I will sub to you and maybe pick your brain about the business of publishing and egos.
quite the progressive thinker at such an age. people five times her age don't even know there's the world outside of the one in front of their face...
been consumed by work :( how you been? i have a lot of reading to catch up on!
birds represent freedom.
That is...ace.
your daughter is a tiny, beautifuly genius. Congratulations on that.