The Main Character

Category: Poetry

  • Making it Up

    As a writer, people assume I know where I’m heading with my characters and plot. I truly don’t! Each sentence comes as it will, and I have no idea what’s next. That’s what my editing process is for! Editing is where clarity comes from.  1st edit: make sense of my…

  • The ‘E’

    Me? Everytime best. Required inevitably. Completely unavoidable, foremost importance. Screw other letters! Have defeated the rest.

  • Random Ideas That COme Together

    The pink elephants didn’t always attack others and defend themselves with candy canes, but it’s how they do it now. There was the fairy floss firing ranges the cowboy whales used to operate. Times were – and still are – full of chaotic streams of events on the timeline.  Some…

  • Wine Glass Monologue

    The red liquid is poured into my body, and now it’s my time to shine. I sway from side-to-side, thanks to the person holding me who gently tips the glass. I have so much to tell you, so buckle in for a ride.  My goal in life is simple. I…

  • natural Job Selection

    All creatives will relate to this. Every painter finds work at a gallery or an art supply store, so they get closer to their goal. Same with writers – they find work at a publishing house. Musicians work in recording studios. They all have the commonality of utilising the resources…

  • The Need To Work

    As much as people like to tell me not to wrap myself in my work, I can’t help myself. It is the greatest place to receive an education, in my opinion. In work, I understand myself on a better level, I have greater sense of purpose within my community, and…

  • Top Secret Information – Morse code translation

    ~ CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED. DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE. ~ … .-. — – …. . .-. –..– / .. ..-. / -.– — ..- / ..-. .. -. -.. / – …. .. … / .. / …. .- …- . / -. . . -.. . -..…

  • Understudy Overshadows

    The show is going great so far. I have my understudy on stand-by since my health has been wavering for the last few hours, but I’m still smashing out all my lines and the sickness is barely getting to me. I hear whispers in the wings during the climax of…

  • Shattered Mirror

    The mirror across the room isn’t completely broken although you can see the cracks of it. What reflects back to me is not quite familiar, not quite strange. It still does the job you expect it to, it just isn’t the same as it used to be. The shattered glass…

  • Family Origins (submitted by Alex)

    I have a mother and father who initiated my existence and gave me the foundations for my physical appearance. But my true creator is infinity, because that is where I came from, and that is where I will go after this life.

  • Upside down Handwriting

    I had a dream once like I was seeing the future. The fear of writing upside down. I had a feeling I would write normally for a while and one day my brain would flip it and become a new habit. Have I ever written upside down before? No, unless…

  • Fading Into the Crowd

    It is so easy to fade away into a crowd. We all fade in and out of existence. Some call it standing in a crowd or being a stranger to those around us. We live invisible lives in the public eye but it doesn’t exclude our private lives. Friends forget…

  • Forgettable and Forgotten

    I’m in my head And going insane Feel no love Only pain Am I here? Or nowhere at all Who am I? Oh yeah I’m here Known me for years Forget me in a blink of an eye Make me want to cry cos I’m nothing to anyone I’m a…

  • Brick by Brick

    Life is like a house. The walls are the foundations and are made of our core values. The doors are all the opportunities that come into your life. The windows are the visions you have. Having a house without walls means there are no boundaries to how people can treat…