Tales of Tenth Grade

Some of you may have deduced this already, given how late I’m posting this blog post, but this month I feel like I’ve hit a slump. I thought about making a photography blog post, but, frankly, I’m not very good. I thought about using the blog post topic of the month, but that turned out to be “Creative Writing,” which is rather broad, and I was ( surprise, surprise ) planning to do that anyway. I thought about writing a short story, but, over the course of the month, no new ideas have popped into my head, and I tend to have trouble writing unless I’m inspired or passionate about the subject/idea. So, that leaves us here… with poetry. But even then, my imagination has run dry. There’s been nothing new or interesting to dig out of the recesses of my mind. Because of all this, I thought, if I can’t come up with anything… why not let the internet come up with something for me? So, I looked up a list of poetry prompts and my April blog post was born. At this point, I do realiz...

Guess what guys??? It's Creative Writing month!! (Woot woot!) Guess what else it is? ... almost winter... (this I'm not as excited about.) And what better way to commemorate the oncoming of winter than with a poem about summer? (I'm a genius, I know.) Now, for my past two posts, I've already done some form of creative writing—a poem, a short story—but because it's Creative Writing month, I've now got a reason to go all out! So, I'm not doing any ordinary poem this time, no, no, no. "Summer" is a spoken word poem, which is basically just a poem that is made to be performed aloud. (Here's a brilliant ted talk on it if you're interested:  https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter?language=en .) Thus, I present to you all... Summer - A Spoken Word Poem Summer A time for bad decisions But no regrets For the beach and the sand and oceans and tans For copious amounts of sunblock because sunburn ain’t cute A...