I don’t like closing doors
When they were opened long ago
But the lights are off, or very dim
The windows are stained, or even broken
The grass has long needed a trim
And so maybe it’s time
To say goodbye.
I hold a rock in my left hand
Ignoring your calls from inside
But I can’t smash the surrounding walls
That hold up this house.
But maybe, I think,
This house was never a house
Just a place to slowly sink.
~Rayna, 2021
This poem could be about a lot of things… and I want to know what you think it’s about. So leave your thoughts in the comments?
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hello! I'm rayna/ray/rayns/georgie/rubert, and somehow, I'm 14.
enfp//ravenclaw//sagittarius
my favourite things to spend time on are:
- obsessing over books and fictional characters to an unhealthy extent.
- drawing fanart and dragons and eyes and skulls
- writing poems//stories//songs, and blogging
- playing ukulele and guitar, and singing terribly
some books/shows/artists I love are:
six of crows, keeper of the lost cities, marvel, anything written by alice oseman, anne with an e, the raven cycle, hunger games, percy jackson, taylor swift, conan gray, arctic monkeys, bbc sherlock, gilmore girls, & many more~
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Ooh awesome poem Rayna 👏👏👏
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No house then?
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Amazing . Fabulous. Marvelous. Great. GREATEST THING EVER WRITTEN IN HISTORY.
Honestly I’m more interested in this than shakespeare’s ‘ seven stages of man ‘ lol
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IKR
YOUR CLASS SHOULD STUDY THIS
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Yess lemme send this to my teacher as a reccomendation
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have fun (;
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Thank you , my classmates will probably hate me but whatever
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no, my poem is so amazing that they won’t
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It’s gonna be out of syllabus so they probably will –
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it’s impossible
and dude are you actually thinking of doing it
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✨mAyBe✨
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This house was never a house
Just a place to slowly sink.
DAMNNNN
Ok so I think the ‘house’ is metaphor for the walls we build around ourselves to protect us from things but the person is now ready to open themself up to new things. The “calls from inside” indicate the little voice inside our head which pulls us down. In the end the person realises that they need to get out of their own head and stop listening to that voice.
Ok i hope that made sense. The end point is that this poem is AMAZING.
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okay. Wow. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t thinking about that. But it makes so much sense! That’s why I like this poem (I usually don’t say that about my poems) – it could have a lot of interpretations. anyway thanks a lot, Simcard!!
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Yus like I said tis AMAZING
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Beautiful poem Rayna!
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Thank you!
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Beautiful poem!
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Thank you!
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okay, i love this! it could have so many different meanings..
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Heh, I know! Thanks!
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This could have so many interpretations! Love the poem ray
This is my fav work from you
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Yessss! Thank you so much <333
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