Spoken Word // Mismatched Shoes

I am walking along this path wearing mismatched shoes,
To some this may bemuse or confuse, yet I refuse to be judged on my decisions.

Under a cloudless sky I begin to wonder, if we simply ignored the thunder claps in our ears, would it erradicate fears or would we still adhere to stereotypes? We are not anyones prototype.

Our minds are a wishbone, well known, and unknown all at the same time, yet society has a complex paradigm which we are obliged to climb. This is a waste of your time.

Life will always be full of conspiracies but if you live within your idiosyncrasies you will begin to believe. You have been given a reprieve, a chance to breathe.

So excuse me if I continue to walk along this path in my mismatched shoes, along those hidden avenues. This is my life and this is what I choose.

Smiley Faces // SPOKEN WORD

As a child, what was more fun than drawing on condensation?

That sheer exhilaration and fascination which surrounds the depiction of an image onto glass.

As a child, it became an addiction, every time it rained, it’s like the habit was engrained and my mother she complained, yet it kept me entertained.

We would draw stick men and smiley faces which would fade but still leave noticeable traces of a child’s carefree innocence.

Gone are those days now, it’s considered juvenile.

As an adult we must be more versatile, yet we are walking through life in single file, while we stockpile these memories of the past into locked compartments in our mind.

I feel so confined, can we go back to a world that was undefined. Less unkind.

Can we go back to the places where I left traces of smiley faces?

Haiku: Embrace The Change

Sometimes when I am lost in thought, I wish time would come to a standstill, allow me to stop and catch my breath. I feel like sometimes the world is on fast forward, speeding away like a runaway train, with me running to catch up but falling behind getting lost instead.  

Life throws us hurdles and its our job to be resilliant enough to overcome them, to leap over them and embrace the challenge ahead.

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King

 Recently, I received the news that I would not be able to complete my degree due to an exam that i just could not pass after attempting it four times. Naturally, I was disappointed, I felt like I had let myself down, despite how hard I had worked. For a while, I let those feelings fill me up inside, convince me that I was a failure and that there was nothing I could do now to change that. That I had let everyone down.
I was wrong.

I think we all get that moment of clarity after a while, that little voice in your head shouting back, arguing with yourself and willing you to believe that you are enough, you are not a failure, life just has a different path for you to take. So I dusted myself down, had a cup of tea (well I am British after all) and focused on the positivity that surrounds me every day.

Embrace the change that life throws at you, no matter what that may be.
Don't be afraid to walk along undiscovered footpaths and snickets once in a while because sometimes you need to lose yourself to find yourself again.

As a lover of all things writing, I thought I would try my hand at a style of poem that I have never tried before; a haiku. The message behind the haiku is simply that you never know where life is going to take you so just go with it, similar to a dandelion seed floating on the breeze.

Keep smiling

Joanna