Creative Corner 3
Welcome to GIRL.COM.AU's Creative Corner. Each month we give budding young readers the opportunity to submit poetry, short stories, or artwork and have their work published!
AUTUMN LIVING
Autumn leaves falling down,
- Vicky Failla (Melbourne, VIC.)
FITTING IN
As I woke up on Monday morning,
I didn't want to go to school,
I could tell like every other day,
that this was going to be a bad one.
This was going to be a day
full of resentment,
full of anger and hurt,
and above all,
I was going to feel like an outsider.
Forget about Miss Popularity,
I was as unpopular as
a lying politician,
as unpopular as a toadstool,
as unpopular as you care to think of.
You might say that I have a low self-esteem.
Why not? That's what my parents think.
You might even say that it is all in my mind.
Why not? My psychologist will probably tell you that.
But, my feelings towards life in general,
are just those,
they are feelings
real feelings
that exists in real life,
and not in a make-believe world,
which everybody would have you think.
How would you feel if you were
repeatedly teased and laughed at?
How would you feel if you weren't
included in the gossip,
But the gossip was about you?
And how would you feel if you
were at the butt of everybody's jokes?
I have tried so hard to be accepted,
but no matter what I do,
I still end up with no friends,
No social life
No boyfriend
Nothing.
I hate coming to school, it's such
a big sacrifice for me.
In fact, I live my life so unnoticed
that I may as well be
dead
may as well be
invisible
may as well be
a leper.
There hasn't been one day in my life
where I haven't cried,
where I haven't felt lonely and left out,
where I haven't felt so isolated.
My whole life has been one big hurdle
after another, I wonder if it will ever stop?
I wonder when I will stop feeling like a misfit,
wonder when I will stop feeling so envious,
and jealous of everyone I see,
wonder when I will stop feeling so UGLY.
Or, was my life supposed to turn out this way?
Will my life always be like this?
Full of hatred and wrongdoing.
Full of pity and judgemental people.
Full of bad impressions.
Loss of love and friendship.
No, not even that frightens me anymore,
For deep down in my heart,
I know that I could never fit in.
- Nancy Atkins (Melbourne, VIC.)
SEA SHELL
I always feel drawn to you,
because your sadness lingers on,
sing a song for me.
I can hear the echo,
as I hold you close to me.
I feel you longing to go back
to the shiny shores,
it's where you belong.
I hear you chant,
wishing to go back,
to the wind, waves and sand.
But I hold on, refusing to let go.
- Belinda (Melbourne, VIC)
Creative Corner only encourages original works and we accept no responsibility for copyright.
Please note that unfortunately any work submitted cannot be returned.
AUTUMN LIVING
Autumn leaves falling down,
Red, orange, yellow and brown.
Crisp and lifeless they lay on the ground,
Waiting to make that crunching sound.
Soon all the trees will be bare,
Until slowly there will be no leaves there.
Hear the birds whistling, watch the leaves fall,
Until there is nothing there at all,
But children laughing and playing,
Rolling in dead leaves and swaying.
Autumn leaves falling down,
Red, orange, yellow and brown.
- Vicky Failla (Melbourne, VIC.)
FITTING IN
As I woke up on Monday morning,
I didn't want to go to school,
I could tell like every other day,
that this was going to be a bad one.
This was going to be a day
full of resentment,
full of anger and hurt,
and above all,
I was going to feel like an outsider.
Forget about Miss Popularity,
I was as unpopular as
a lying politician,
as unpopular as a toadstool,
as unpopular as you care to think of.
You might say that I have a low self-esteem.
Why not? That's what my parents think.
You might even say that it is all in my mind.
Why not? My psychologist will probably tell you that.
But, my feelings towards life in general,
are just those,
they are feelings
real feelings
that exists in real life,
and not in a make-believe world,
which everybody would have you think.
How would you feel if you were
repeatedly teased and laughed at?
How would you feel if you weren't
included in the gossip,
But the gossip was about you?
And how would you feel if you
were at the butt of everybody's jokes?
I have tried so hard to be accepted,
but no matter what I do,
I still end up with no friends,
No social life
No boyfriend
Nothing.
I hate coming to school, it's such
a big sacrifice for me.
In fact, I live my life so unnoticed
that I may as well be
dead
may as well be
invisible
may as well be
a leper.
There hasn't been one day in my life
where I haven't cried,
where I haven't felt lonely and left out,
where I haven't felt so isolated.
My whole life has been one big hurdle
after another, I wonder if it will ever stop?
I wonder when I will stop feeling like a misfit,
wonder when I will stop feeling so envious,
and jealous of everyone I see,
wonder when I will stop feeling so UGLY.
Or, was my life supposed to turn out this way?
Will my life always be like this?
Full of hatred and wrongdoing.
Full of pity and judgemental people.
Full of bad impressions.
Loss of love and friendship.
No, not even that frightens me anymore,
For deep down in my heart,
I know that I could never fit in.
- Nancy Atkins (Melbourne, VIC.)
SEA SHELL
I always feel drawn to you,
because your sadness lingers on,
sing a song for me.
I can hear the echo,
as I hold you close to me.
I feel you longing to go back
to the shiny shores,
it's where you belong.
I hear you chant,
wishing to go back,
to the wind, waves and sand.
But I hold on, refusing to let go.
- Belinda (Melbourne, VIC)
Creative Corner only encourages original works and we accept no responsibility for copyright.
Please note that unfortunately any work submitted cannot be returned.
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