Bend with the wind
Like slanting trees
Parts of you will go out into the world
Like leaves that go with the wind
You don't know where they will end up
But it could be farther than you can imagine
Some parts of you could land in the river
Go on to the ocean
Wash up to shore on other continents
Bend with the wind
Like slanting trees
Let your leaves go with the breeze
Then you will be free
About the Creator
J.M. Powell
You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis
I'm a current undergraduate English with Track in Creative Writing major.
My passion is to spread what it means to love.
My published chapbooks of poetry: Quantum Leap Overmorrow
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Letter from an Imaginary Friend
Dear Janice, You are exactly where you need to be in your journey. We are all given struggles to overcome. It takes time to learn. In some of them we discover our purpose. How would we know it without them? In them we grow stronger. They give us the fire and fuel to try. They say people really start going for the best life in their 30's and here you are starting to take those steps exactly in your 30's. Look at all the steps you are taking now that you used to never do and thought you might never do. You are stronger than you can see. I am so proud of you for dreaming big and for the compassion you want to spread throughout the world. The world so desperately needs the enormous transformation you dream of giving it. Never ever think that dream is too big. Also, just know that there is someone out there for you craving all that loyalty and romance you have to offer. They will completely melt into a puddle with your love. I so rarely meet people with such pure intentions like you. If all people had your heart, the world would be as it should be. Keep dreaming and keep fighting. Everything you desire is at your fingertips.
By J.M. Powell2 years ago in Poets
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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Oh I truly loved how uplifting your poem was! Very beautifully written!
A free spoken word poem. I enjoyed the nature elements you provided with your overall stance!