MY PEN
I wouldn't have satisfactorily completed the countdown I started if I didn't talk about my very best friend; my pen.
Honestly, most times I do not know how to explain what writing is to me, I think it beats my words and only my soul can comprehend.
I mentioned in an earlier post last month, how I had started writing since I was really young but of course it didn't mean much at all. It was just something I did for fun, until I realized that my hobby was a serious life line.
At a point, writing was all that kept me sane when my mind was tearing me apart. I have had some heart wrenching and soul searching times with writing and I have also had some naughty, funny and happy times with it.
It has become a release for me, it makes me see the little things people are generally blind to, it has made me think deeply and imagine wildly (now, I am not so sure that's a good thing).
Like I said, no matter how much I try to go on and on about writing, I doubt I can truly explain what I feel or how writing makes me feel but I guess writers have an idea of what I am saying. It's why I connect with writers by default.. Lol..
Anyways, all these feelings and inexplicable words are the reasons I decided to write my first anthology;Phoenix T21. Funny enough, going through some poems I had written some three years ago, I realized I had actually started compiling the poems I wrote that year together but of course I had no plan for an anthology.
The wonderful folks on instagram, on Facebook, Steemit.com, Wordpress and everywhere I had posted or shared my writings have played a very great role in getting me to this point. They have encouraged me, criticised me, pushed me, made me feel like I could do more. I have come to view my writings in a different light than when I first started because of everyone that has deemed it fit to drop a word or two over time.
Phoenix T21 is basically me opening up my mind and soul and writing through the different parts of my life. I think I still do not know how to define the way I write or the style I write with, I just write 90% of the time with the aim of passing across a message or telling a story. Then other times which I also love so much, I just play with words and styles and rhymes.
I know this is a starting point and anyway it goes or take me, I am happy and satisfied knowing fully well that I consciously dabbled into my passion and that gives me so much joy.
Sometimes I tend to keep going when talking about something I really love so let me just stop here.
My anthology, Phoenix T21 is almost completed and I can't wait to release the wings to fly, actually it would be releasing my wings to fly, but really I can't wait for y'all to see it. Damn! I said I was going to stop.
One last thing before I run away, ermmm...tomorrow is my birthday... And I am so collecting gifts... Lool...
Well.. Till tomorrow.. Much love😍😍
©Onashile Peace (tolarnee)
7/2/2018