I love writing for new audiences so I am happy to share that my poem, Seventh Street, is published at Visual Verse!
Visual Verse is unique in that it is an ongoing monthly anthology of words. Each month brings a new photo prompt and shares the best written responses. Since I enjoy writing in response to word and photo prompts, even if the writing stays on my notebook page, I look forward to the writing challenge Visual Verse provides each month.
Lately I have been focusing on telling stories. When I first began avidly writing poetry, haikus were the easiest way for me to put down a thought while longer poems turned into scrawls of jumbled feelings.
I thought I wasted notebooks on dead writing, but I needed those unclear scrawls to help me learn to write focused feelings. I have to follow writing where it goes to discover the hidden impressions I have inside myself, tickling at crevices of my heart.
It is easy to disregard something or stop yourself from doing something because you think it is wasteful or foolish, but your immediate instincts know what you need to do and, although I do hesitate and even often find myself facing a challenge, I do not regret it when I follow my gut. I may cringe now when I flip through old notebooks, but I know the ink and paper were not wasted because I needed to let go of old ideas to make space for new ones to grow.
I invite you to read Seventh Street, my latest new idea.
I have heard
You can take your cat to
Seventh Street
And those split hairs
That reflect your sins
And those chipped claws
That hunt through your albums . . . please continue reading here and feel free to share your beautiful thoughts!
Congrats! So happy for you!
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Congratulations on your poem being published! I always look forward to reading your latest work, you are so talented! I sometimes look back at some of my old writing and cringe too, but I agree that it’s just a part of the process of growing, letting go of the past, and becoming a better person/writer because of it. Thank you for sharing this! I hope you have a great weekend!
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Thanks so much for connecting with this! Enjoy your weekend as well.
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Congratulations on getting Seventh Street published at Visual Verse! I love that your work is getting out there. Even your poetry tells a story. It’s not something super vague either, I totally understand your meaning :). Keep up the amazing work!!
Nancy ✨ exquisitely.me
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It is wonderful to hear I am able to write something clear. Thank you!
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Your writing is beautiful, you have such an amazing way with words!
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It’s never wasted if it’s a part of the process to get you to the pieces you’re happy to share! I love reading a mixture of the shorter and longer stuff. Congratulations on getting another piece published x
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Thanks so much for your lovely words! I am pretty happy with the ways I move forward too. 🙂
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Congratulations! You are smashing with your publishing Jaya! This is awesome!
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Congratulations Jaya!
English is not my native language and it’s really hard even to understand poetry in English!
But when I read it again, again and again, there are so many beautiful things inside the poetry!
Thank you for sharing this!
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Aww, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! I do appreciate it.
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I love my notebook scrawling, it’s an important part of the process. Recently I’ve found some old notebooks, that older “wiser” me can make use of those old notes 😃
Your list is published work is surely going to grow and grow!
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I love revising old tales into something better when I can, so I hope you enjoy looking through your old notebooks as much as I do! 🙂
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Beautiful! Congratulations, Jaya! 🙂
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You truly have the pen for poetry and I am definitely a fan. Keep going higher xxx
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Thanks so much! I love writing.
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I absolutely love this and it’s so beautiful 😁 thank you for sharing, keep them coming Jaya as I’m loving these little poems, truly inspirational 😊
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Thank you so much for your encouraging words! Much appreciated. 🙂
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loved it, Jaya – the dogs, the cats and the heart all I guess reside somewhere on the 7th Street
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🙂 I do believe so!
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🌸😊
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Great news! I am so happy for you. You write beautiful poetry and you definitely deserve this.
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I don’t remember where I read this but writing is a muscle so you need to use it – never regard anything as wasted writing, think of it as warm up exercises! Congrats again on getting published at Visual Verse, another wonderful piece of writing, Jaya 🙂 Lisa x
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Warm up exercises . . . I love that perception!
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Love it. Congratulations.
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Notebooks started my writing! Defiantly never wasted. Beautiful words as always!
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Thanks so much!
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Congrats! Love the title
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Notebooks are never wasted writing! I can never get myself to throw them out so every few years read them again to smile.
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I do not think I can imagine throwing away any of my notebooks! I love what you say about the notebooks helping you smile. 🙂
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This was beautiful thank you for sharing 😊
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Thank you so much for your kind words!
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Should I take Remus and Gracie to Seventh Street?!? Would they be safe there for a nail clipping? I’m not sure Jaya! Eek… !!!!
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🙄 Some answers cannot be told poetically.
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Hehe…. provocative words! And I love being pushed to think!!! Thank you Jaya 🤔
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