Poetry
CategoryPasted Mind: road trips to remember my life is not as big as i think it is
I wrote this poem based on a prompt asking me to “write about the summer using all five senses.” Of course, since the first draft, the poem has gone..
Pasted Mind: snake skin
I’m back for the SMW summer with more poetry than ever! Over the 2018-19 school year, I’ve written and workshopped a lot more full-length poetry. Fo..
Lo Que Siento: an introduction
Welcome to Lo Que Siento (What I Feel). My life has taken some interesting turns within the past year, but through it all, I’ve learned to really ap..
Artistic Perception: Doomed
Slices across my face, like knives
There to drain me of my blood
The red rushes throw my veins
If only there was a support, a savior, to lift me ..
Artistic Perception: Intro to Artistic Perception
Welcome to artistic perception. I’m a classic teenager. Earbuds always in. In my posts, I’ll be tying together my present self with music, and my pa..
Pasted Mind: Open Your Golden Gate
San Francisco shaped me into who I am today; if I had lived anywhere else, I wouldn’t be the same person at all. With this collage, I wanted to crea..
Pasted Mind: Origin Story
For my second collage, I decided to focus on my family and roots – Russia. For me, being Russian meant going to church and practicing Orthodoxy, so ..
Pasted Mind: multiMEdia
Certain parts of my life are too abstract to write down, but they fill me with a passion so intense that I can’t help but try to share. As an avid a..
Letters of Abstraction: Dear Acceptance
Dear Acceptance,
As the last abstraction that I will write to, I guess you’d have to be important.
You are.
To say that you’re just import..
Letters of Abstractions: Dear Love
Dear Love,
How are you feeling at this exact moment?
You probably don’t know.
I don’t either. But then again, I’m not an abstract feeling ..