Remember to write,
you are a writer
no matter what they say,
Remember to create,
you are a an artist
ignore, avoid, cleanse yourself of the inconsistent threads, whispers of
you aren’t and you can’t
Just do
today, now,
tomorrow, then
between the must do’s and should do’s
fill the space and liberate
your insides
create
for it is your fate
to be tied to your pen
in this perfect den.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
I walk through the drizzling leaves and make a wish on each leaf as if it were a shooting star. The wind sweeps through us
For a month you freed me of— but now I am the center of the whirlpool, the very current my mother warned me of as
It Is Written as come milestones, so do they. Like locusts, they arrive. Their love descends in unsolicited advice and probing questions dressed up as