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Now & Then, A Poetry Book - A Work of Art (Metaphor Poem)

The wrapped canvas was a blank slate.

Paint splatters, precise brushstrokes, vigorous dotting.

So many ways to shape and experience painting.

So many ways to create.

No one way is the “right” way,

An art piece is free to come to be, gaining charm with age

Or perhaps becoming conscious of being an outlier.

But it is there with purpose, it is deserving of its space in the world.

Some may admire them, and others reject them,

Neither one shapes their worth.

They are not any more or any less deserving of their existence.

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These next few pieces are going to be more personal since they were written most recently for my creative writing class during the spring semester. I took it as a challenge to write a bit about my experiences with anxiety so I will include some thoughts on each of these I expressed to my professor through the assignment letter for anyone wondering what these mean or their relevance to my life. Metaphor is expressed through my poem “A Work of Art”. My message is that regardless of who you are and how you present yourself not only are individuals loveable, but they also deserve a place in the world without needing a particular reason. Outside influences tend to skew our views of ourselves and when we have negative self-talk it is usually a result of those voices coming from someone else first. I think it is important to know that regardless of who we are we need to value ourselves as a person and know our worth without aligning it with expectations. This includes, but is not limited to fulfilling beauty standards, intellectual rankings (expectations to achieve honor rolls, maintaing GPA, etc.), “behaving” in a strict neurotypical manner, abiding by gender roles and heteronormativity, and much more since these are all damaging narratives that traumatize those who do not fit neatly in a box.

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This is going to become the home for writing that was too short to become its own novel, pieces based on prompts, scenes without context, a place to start new series, and other random stuff.

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