Flash Poetry
is a quick creative exercise that I started doing as a teenager. I write a poem as I listen to an instrumental song that I've never heard before, and I drop the pen the second the music stops. No second thoughts, no edits- just the essence of the song translated into words. Here are five of mine. Try it sometime.
Just Me and You - Ramin Djawadi- The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Sands shift as time drifts by,
Erasing the footsteps.
History was held in the imprints of their grains.
Happy moments, wiped away by
The unfeeling wind.
I suppose,
Their love story was one to be forgotten.
Walking In the Forest - Yiruma - Frames (2017)
Crunching steps over sticks and stones,
The creek babbles its wistful song.
The wind rustles, and spirits haunt
Their roots.
The trees ache and weep
With sorrow and joy,
Bursting at the seams with
their secrets.
Come in and rejoice in the ups
And downs,
The lull and rush.
Your heart will race.
Your hands will shake.
Your very bones will shudder
As you behold the forest
Open.
Ashokan - Kyle McEvoy - Ashokan EP (2018)
Sometimes the hills
Roll on into oblivion
And you are left to
Ponder
If beginnings and ends
Exist
Or if it’s all just one
Continual story
The edges of fragmented
Chapters in our heads
Bleeding into each other
As we walk
Warps - Koral Banko - 2018
Lilac and orange
Smear the horizon
As the sun rises
Brave enough to greet a new day
Just like you
Painted in strength.
Your heart glistens
Catching the rays of the sun
And reflecting it back out
Into the world.
The light is warmer
Than it would have been
Had it not passed through you.
Hymn Tune Prelude on Song 13 - Ralph Vaughan Williams - London Symphony Orchestra
When I look into her eyes
Galaxies unfold.
The inky depth of the universe
Draws me in
Mesmerizing.
The warm, autumn breeze swoops
Through plains of rustling greens and browns.
The stars twinkle
And seize my heart,
Begging me to hold onto this moment.
So I listen to their request.
And make room in my soul
For one more.