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Untitled~ By Sheily Soria

10/13/2014

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It is you that does so many things. You make me forget. You make me feel. You make me weak. You make me blind. It's not a good thing, because I have fallen so hard and it's all you. Weak to the point that I can't let go. Feelings to the point that I forgive you. Blind to the point that I don't see any defects in you. And this is all enough to make me forget that it was also you-- the one that hurts me. It is you who has done so many things, and I'm still here. And yet, thanks to you, I have learned to love myself before anybody else does. It is you who does these things, and it's something that I am actually thankful for. Because is something I have also learned from.


Author Bio:
I am 14-years-old, soon to be a sophomore at Segerstrom High school in California. Writing isn't just a hobby, it is also a passion for me. I hope someday my writing is recognized by many people. 
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Donal Mahoney link
10/13/2014 01:05:21 am

Dear Sheily Soria,

You are already a fine young writer. And you will be a better writer as you grow older. In the meantime, read all the good writers you can, both male and female. Listen to the cadence of their writing and then listen for the cadence in your own writing as it develops.

It’s not commercially wise to major in English these days but I did eons ago, simply because I did not want to study in school and I already thought I knew English very well--everything except the difference between a colon and a semi-colon. I had no idea how hard I would have to study to get a couple of degrees. But I had to read all the old masters—and Chaucer in Middle English and Beowulf in Old English didn’t hurt either, even though I disliked them at the time.

Among the moderns you may be a tad too young to read Sharon Olds unless your mother reads her poems first. But you can’t go wrong reading the late Seamus Heaney who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, And James Wright who died to young. I was a few years older than you when I read the poem in the link below and it floored me at the time as did all the fiction by J.D. Salinger. Maybe you need to be a little older to read Salinger as well.

Good luck going forward.

Donal Mahoney

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177229

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