seventeen, a common theme

stem the flow of
colours and smoke
flourid ties,
extravagant lies
that were true in
another time

pretty pictures,
young girl who could
see and
breathe and
bleed without
a Bud next to me.

shine on,
seventeen
live long
and believe
that you’ve found yourself
here and now
and that there’s one point
where you will know it all
and cut yourself free.

how can you live in the light
of seventeen?
how is all shoved into a mold
delivered to site
and broken free
looking like nothing that
was ever contained in dreams..?
do you have to deliberately
lose
to find?
is there a point where you
have ever arrived?

mixed just right
shaken, not stirred
woken up and still asleep
rolling over
and praying to keep
an even keel
as another storm rises..?

pretty thing
where was it that
you found your release?
how is it, now
at 23
on the verge
of spontaneous combustion
woe-is-me
why do all the movies
say you come of age
in your teens…?

metaphorical duck

June 5, 2009

It’s bullshit; I feel I am only now ‘coming of age.’ I was about to say ‘it’s definitely an early-twenties thing,’ but fuck that, it’s probably how everyone feels all the time. I mean, really, what age are you coming to? It never ends. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad.

cosmic

Moving and truthful…I love it.

Alara

June 7, 2009

Oh for the days when you could pour your heart out into a TOTALLY SYMPATHETIC LiveJournal and emoticons EXPRESSED us! I don’t know if there’s something about major life changes that makes you overly nostalgic, but writing more (especially here) is one of those things that just seemed fitting.

And I’d guess that the trend of coming of age in your teens was started with war movies in the 40s/50s, where you were dead by 20. Personally, I plan on having a mid-life crisis at 26 and talking about whippersnappers getting off my friggin’ lawn by the time I’m 30.

aglow

June 20, 2009

SRSLY. I swear I’m more coming of age at the moment than I ever was around the 16/17/18 age. Maybe people just tie in graduating from high school to the moment “real life” starts?That said, I know you’ll totally love this as much as I did: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-hassler/10-tips-for-twenty-someth_b_216591.html

espy.

October 9, 2009