The Journey with Poem Never Ends
I still remembered how frustrated I was while finding a theme for my poem; I still remembered When I wrote an interesting poem, I could hardly wait to share it with others; I still remembered while I was walking among the wriggle road in the woods to seek for a wisp of inspirations; I still remembered there were... Lots of memories converge to an odd and strange feeling; I can’t tell if it is the happiness feeling of finishing the project; or it is the disappointment about how fast this progress end. However, there are one thing that I am pretty sure--My journey with poems will never end. Whenever I inspired by changes take place around me in my daily life, such as a different cloud shape, a joyful color, even a piece of falling leaf; I will grab a pen and write down a poem which contains my emotion, inspiration, feelings and dreams. Sometimes, I will also take out the poems I wrote before to reread it and review my old dreams; it become a special way for me to contain my memories. The habits of writing poems gradually become apart of my daily life as the 30 day challenge goes on. It sticks to me silently without any herald which makes me question myself: What happen during these 30 days? Why it changes my attitude from seeing poem writing as a assignment to a custom of my daily life?
“Hello darkness my old friend...No!...The darkness comes silently..No!” The corpse of scrap paper piled up a small hill on the table, but the only words written on the paper was a title called “Hello Darkness”. Up to now, I still remembered how frustrated and despaired I was at the first day of the 30 day challenge. As I said in the blog post 2, it was such a huge challenge for me who had never written any poem in English and giving up the habit of writing poems for years. Because of the neglect on poems writing, I gradually lost the eyes of finding subtle details from our life and the nose for the odor of inspirations. Staring at the blank sheet of paper, I felt nothing in my mind; dim lights of the lamp on the corner of the table formed a barrier which isolated me out of the world. As the night falling, the lights became brighter and brighter; fortunately, the seed of poetry didn’t wither in my mind, but only needed more time to grow up. I still had the ability to write a poem! I squeezed out word by word and pieced together my first poem. I couldn't say that I never thought about giving up and changed to new challenge at that night. However, I was glad that I persevered in it. I know the seed of poem writing will bloom into the most beautiful flower.
I walked past the creepiest way in the woods, I squat among the grass and observed the blooming of an immature flower, I looked up to the sky to record the shape of the cloud every now and then, I stood besides the pound quietly to find the trace of the biggest fish. After several blog post, I started to hold the knack of writing poems. Lots of themes and inspirations were needed for me to create poems. Therefore, I chose to pay more attention on environment around me, observed them, described them, and eulogized how amazing there were. That was the formula for me to create a poem. However, I felt there were still something missing and a question appeared in my mind: “What should I do after I run out of the themes to write about?” Nonetheless, I retrieved the eyes which opened a more vivid world for me; I can feel the seeding of poem writing is become bigger and stronger day after days.
Running out of theme, soon became the biggest problem to me. After days of seeking, I found out the most important thing for my poems were which I used to ignore-- my emotions and feelings. They were the soul for a poem; with the added of emotions I could write thousands of poem about clouds without any repeat, because I had different feelings for each of them; that’s the reason why they were different. I didn’t need to worry about what to write, and the way of writing poems became an instinct to me. There was no need for me to write a poem for an assignment called 30 day challenge. However, I developed a way of expressing my feelings. I can see that the seeds of poem writing finally become the most beautiful flower in my mind.
All in all, 30 day challenge witness the found of my habits of writing poems. Although, it seemed to end, the habit of writing poems still stays with me, and become a really important part of my life. I feel rejoice that I didn’t give up at that night and I know the flower in my mind will keep blooming and accompany me to the end of my life.