Welcome to the part 3 of my guest blog series. Today I will be sharing a few of my poems, and I will be explaining them a little bit. I hope you enjoy these poems and that you will reply in the comments with a poem of your own. As I wrote yesterday, writing lets you “speak your heart out,” and I’d love to read your heart.
Take another step.
Take another leap.
Move yourself forward.
Help people more often.
Move your feet.
Make a difference in the world.
Rather if it’s helping our community
Or helping yourself,
Make a difference.
Be a leader,
Not a follower.
Build a theater,
Don’t go to one,
Create a house,
Don’t buy another one.
Give out food to the homeless,
Don’t waste it.
Create something beautiful –
A home,
Meal,
Or even love.
Try to fix a shattered heart.
Like you know their hurt.
But most importantly,
Don’t go thinking you’re not worth a lot.
No difference starts from there
When you’re being unfair to yourself.
Create something beautiful
With hope tied to rope on the back
Of your mind.
Love someone who’s hurt
Don’t kill the environment,
But let the environment kill
Your negative thoughts.
Take a glance at the environment
Help it become a better place
Don’t leave an ugly trace.
Create beautiful things
With all the power you’ve got.
I wrote this poem to inspire people to do something that would change the world. I thought that maybe some people may want to make a difference, but maybe they don’t have enough inspiration. So I created this poem to inspire people to make the biggest difference they can in the world. I want everybody to know that you can make a difference, anything that it is you want, you can achieve that goal by working hard for it and not giving up.
Love.
I love them both –
My mother and my father,
For I’m their only daughter,
Their only child.
I trust them –
I love them and cherish them
For every word,
Hug,
Kiss.
I love them –
For every story they’ve told me,
For every lesson they’ve taught me,
Fight. So I have fought-
With power and dignity
To climb on the tallest tower
Without a cry
Then left to fly
Without falling.
They’ve taught me
That I won’t fall
If I don’t look down,
For I won’t cry if I don’t let
Those bruises define me,
That for every mistake,
There’s a lesson to be learned,
That if I’m going the wrong way,
I can be turned
With the power of love,
Confidence,
And integrity.
For they’ve taught me that I’m not just a shout in the void.
I’m more than that.
I’m a voice wanting to be heard,
Waiting to be conserved.
I’m powerful,
Strong,
And justified with power.
We all are.
We just need to learn how to use it.
This poem is dedicated to my wonderful parents. I wrote this poem for them to express how important they are in my life. I wrote this poem to express the powerful lessons my Dad and Mom have taught me. I want them to know how grateful and wonderful it feels to have them in my life, helping me step-by-step. They pick me up when I fall down(literally), so I wanted to express how thankful I am for them in this poem. To show them that they’ve done so much of an impact on my life. Is there someone who has taught you to “shout in the void”? Write us a poem.
For my third poem, I was inspired by my heritage and wrote it during April’s 30 poem challenge. Perhaps you have a story about your culture or heritage in you waiting to be told. Try it in a poem in the comments.
I’m quite different from everyone
From a place most people don’t know
A place from Central Asia
Called Azerbaijan.
It’s quite different there
The language
The culture
And holidays
When I first got here
Everything felt like a maze
Oh how different was
The food
People
And nature
From band to land
Each difference was a hard way
To adapt.
But I got through it
For I came here when I was
Two and a half
But now I know better
Than I did 12 years ago
I’ve grown up here
But a part of me will always be
With Azerbaijan.
I wrote this poem about the country I was born in to express how differently it is from here and to show how I’ve tried adapting the best I could to my life here ever since I moved. All my family is all back there except for a very few. It’s hard waking up everyday and not seeing them, but when I do get a chance to see them, I try to cherish every moment. No matter how different America and Azerbaijan are, I have adapted to living in both countries.
Finally, here is my “shout.” Here is my heart speaking out:
A hint of courage
Some satisfaction;
And determination.
The three main things
That complete a human being
From feeling broke up inside;
Especially at 2am; at night.
We fight the negativity
And we follow our happiness.
Courage.
We must have this
To complete tasks
That throw us off;
We must have courage to trust
Even once when we’ve been broken
By people we once loved.
We must have courage to accept the fact
That some people
Just aren’t coming back.
Satisfaction.
One word with every meaning.
We must be satisfied
By our life or else
We’re living in a big lie.
We must be satisfied
With our life to understand
That sometimes
We may land
Among better things than we ever hoped.
We must be sacrificed
With the memories we hold
With the stories untold
Because they’ll stay with us
Until we love them enough to forget.
Determination.
We must have enough of this, to live through life
It’s the flashlight to a dark night;
The hope to a light-filled unknown tunnel.
We must be determined
To get to the things we love in life;
Our passions.
The things that make us happy.
It’s the most inevitable way
Of making life amazing.
We must be determined
To never give up.
To never get thrown off
With unknown and new tasks.
To remember
That in order to succeed;
We need to give it all we got.
Because we as thought;
Life’s not easy.
And that’s why;
You can’t give up on yourself
Or anyone else that you love.
We all need each other.
We all need one another
To be completed
Happily.
Courage.
Satisfaction.
Determination.
Three words, leading to one beautiful life.
In this poem, I write about life and three important things we need to live: courage, satisfaction and determination. What inspired me to write this poem was the fact that so many of us have a hard time understanding life and the meaning of it– so I thought that maybe writing about these three topics would give me and everyone else a better idea of what life is. This poem is written to show that three simple words can lead to a happy life. To you have advice for a happy life? Put it in a poem in the comment section.
I hope you liked my poems. Before I finish off my series, I want to thank my Dad Rasim, my Mom Vafa, Mrs. Donovan and my close friends. None of this would be possible, especially without Mrs. Donovan– for giving me this opportunity to publish these 3 blogs. It was such a great experience to have my writing published– and I would like to thank all of you guys for supporting me and for pushing me on when I wanted to give up. Thank you.
Now, I am wondering what you thought about my poems. Did you enjoy them? Which one was your favorite, why? And if you’d like, I would love to read any poems you guys have written below in the comments (not on Facebook because I don’t have an account).
Fidan is a piano player, writer and skateboarder. She enjoys trying new things, adventuring in new places, being happy and bringing joy to those around her.