What Do You Miss?

Cartoon from Education Week.

The Creative Writing Club is not meeting this week, but you can post your response to this topic, if you like: What do you miss in your life? A feeling? A friend that moved away? Some special childhood toy? A special place?

Write something about what you miss and share it with us!

I Miss You

by Fatima Chowdhury

Feels as if it was only yesterday when I saw you

We laughed, we talked and you told me how loved I was

But I turned away.
If only I knew...

I would enfold you in my embrace; I would wish your pain away
Words cannot express for all that you’ve done

I want to hear your voice again
I want to call you but I know you won’t be there

I just want hide cause it’s you I miss

Why? Why did it have to come to this?

Can’t I just have one more day with you?

I want to tell you how much I’ve missed you since that fateful day

But it’s dangerous

To turn back time

I wait for that day we meet again

Until then... I Miss You...

by Tala B. Anatawi

We once had innocence in us

But the ocean’s waves have done their job

Their turbulence and anger denatured us

I miss the little white spot within me

Within everyone I once thought I knew

It’s like gaining filthy wisdom

If this is wisdom then I believe it’s just superfluous

But there’s always a new day

The Sun will be back

But its view isn’t the same

And will never be the same…

by Ameena Z. Bakaev

There are many people I would miss in my life because of all the great loss,

But sometimes my memory controls who I keep and who I lose. However,

There is only one person I could miss so bad that I lose my mind sometimes.

The same person who I loved, cared, respected, and always had good times with.

The same person who raised my family and me, he's gone now but that doesn't mean the end.

I know someday we will meet again and, until then, tears, pain, and pressure won't do any good, 

But strength, smile, relief, fear, and patience can make sense for the day to come.

I miss you terribly and so

I miss you terribly and so
I go through with my day
in the same old way and I go on.
I was born that way.

I miss you more than you'll ever know,
(except now you do)
and you'll miss me, too, and won't
think about it in the morning.

I miss you more often than not,
but I forgot who or when or I thought
I did.

I miss the kid who grew into a man,
who grew to understand
so little.

I miss you a little and a lot.
I'm not perfect. I'm in the middle of this.

I miss the beginning and the end
of an episode,
one friend or another.

I miss my brother in another state,
my mother who stays up late
or doesn't (she never did).
I miss my sis a tad,
my dad and my old life.

I miss my wife when we're apart,
and art when I can't make it
(I fake it).

Don't wake up for me.

In fact, I miss every minute
that passes in the masses
of memories before me.

Found Poem Cut-Up

Lines from the list of novels below were cut up and mixed together. Club members chose handfuls of lines and arranged them into poems and stories.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, Pearls of Wisdom compiled, selected or devised by Harry Millner, The River Between Us by Richard Peck, The Last Treasure by Janet S. Anderson, Coroline by Neil Gaiman, Journey by Danielle Steel, Under the Watson’s Porch by Susan Shreve, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale,Spells Trouble by Clarice Bean, The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Men are from Mars, Women from Venus by John Gray, Life: Selected Quotations by Paulo Coelho, and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho.

A Wise Ignorance is an Essential Part of Knowledge.

In order to live fully,
Play in the playground. There's almost as many of
Mechanical puzzles, where you have to let one piece go
Whaling with something else and that's what I'm going to
Get out of here
In order to make sense of everything
Cry. There was no other sound in the empty flat.
Because everyone's got cats of their own already
We are here for a short time--let's get all the laughter
That must be where the picture was
And you must find your treasure.

Something Good Will Happen to You!

This week's topic is a general idea, and you can respond in any way that you like. The topic is: Something good will happen to you!

A Gift from Nihilism

 by Nairuz A. ElAzzabi

"Am I blind?
Why is it all Dark?
Where are they?
Why is there no one in here?
Wait a second!
Oh, God!
That was a Nightmare."

The girl was lying on her bed, folding her arms under her hand.

Her eyes were staring at the ceiling. The height inspired her. She can reach new levels in life. She can get up and try hard to make it.

The girl got out of her bed.

"Take the Chance," the window said. The light outside of the window nourished the girl. Sunlight was so enticing that it powered the girl. "It is a New day, a new chance, something good could happen," the girl said happily.

"Start with yourself," the mirror whispered.

"I have faith in You. I love you," the door said. "I do Believe in you."

Writing

by Latifa Al-Kuwari

lying there staring at the
ceiling dreaming about it

screaming yelling

craziness around her

but the time stops when she
starts thinking about it

future love happiness

whatever it takes whatever she
has to do

she will still wait
for it

A Young Child.

by Nadia ElMeragawi

A young child. An imagination that ran wild.
She worried and scared.
She was never prepared.
Life came along and took her under its wing.
She was as happy as a lonely king.
She waited for good to come.
She waited a while.
What else could she have done.

Something Good Will Happen to You!

You're reading this poem (or listening
to the words). Isn't that good?
Isn't being together?
Another day is winding down
and the most difficult part is over.
Isn't it over?
The mystery will be solved
when you get home,
when you get to your room.
Someone is waiting for you,
even if it is only you-know-who.
Are you what you thought you would be?
Can you be better? Can someone?
Is it enough to be OK or so-so?
I don't know.
Isn't it good to know?

Something Good Will Happen to You

by Ameena Z. Bakaev

Smile, laugh, Cheer up!

Something good will happen to you

where is that?

when is that?

what is that?

no idea! but,

something good will happen to you

Is it he?

Is it she?

Or is it it?

no idea! but

something good will happen to you

How do I know?

How come that I know?

I don't! but,

something good will happen to you.

So smile, laugh and cheer up!

jump, run, play around!

give good so you can get goods.

something good will happen to you.

Fibonacci Sequence or Cinquain

Working on a Fibonacci Sequence.

This week, seven students and two instructors attended our meeting. Creative Writing Club members worked on Cinquains and Fibonacci Sequences. Each line in your response should have the corresponding number of syllables or words:

Cinquain
2, 4, 6, 8, 2

Or Butterfly Cinquain
2, 4, 6, 8, 2, 8, 6, 4, 2

Fibonacci Sequence
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc.

Do you have any ideas for the next meeting? Feel free to post your ideas here!

Come (a Fibonacci Sequence)

by Amna Al-Suwaidi

come
quickly
have fun
more time there
seat and sea so successfully
summer and sand, breeze and wind so hot
Dead dray don't try digging deep into the ground don't dare
come clear

Worn-Out Being (a Cinquain)

by Nairuz A. ElAzzabi

Worn-out Being
All day, All tired
Teachers Assign Exams
Do well, Better Grades. No pain, No Gain.
Peaceful sleep

One Atom (a Butterfly Cinquain)

by Nairuz A. ElAzzabi

One Atom
Six neutrons, six protons.
Two shells, No lose = No Gain.
Let share electrons equally.
One Atom
Where do Hydrogens sleep?
We need Party Here.
Give me one. i give other
Carbohydrates are better made.
I, Carbon

Run (a Fibonacci Sequence).

by Asma Al-Kauri & Nadia ElMeragawi

Run.
Bow ties.
Rose dies!
Nope. Just kidding;
gets thrown in parallel-universe-survives!
Doctor cries. Torchwood falls. Tardis flies miles high.
Time and Relative Dimension in Space, the Blue Box
throughout history-always present.

Butterfly (a Butterfly Cinquain)

Day-flying insect
of the order Lepidoptera
lays eggs on leaves. Caterpillar larva
hatches hungry and begins eating, shedding skin again
and again.
It makes a chrysalis. The caterpillar changes quickly.
When the chrysalis opens, a butterfly
emerges with folded wings.
It rests.