Features “My Prayers”, “This Is What It Means to Grow Up”, and “Paw Prints” from Rather Be Haunted on Amazon.com
Tag: Poetry
It’s About Time
It’s About Time by Valerie Parente
Don’t put off the thing you’re ready for if it makes you nervous
because the only thing you’re doing is putting off progress.
If it goes bad now you know why and it won’t torment you anymore,
if it goes well you’ll be blessed with a brand new chapter.
– Valerie Parente (7-24-2020)
Poetry Reading & Analysis (Hindsight of the Falsehood ~ Imagination Is Not Free ~ Normal) (VIDEO)
Features “Hindsight of the Falsehood”, “Imagination Is Not Free”, and “Normal” from The Artist, The Muse on Amazon.com
Trust Me, I’m Okay
Trust Me, I’m Okay by Valerie Parente
I think people think that I’m stuck in place
because I still talk about the pain
but I swear that’s not the case;
it’s just hard to verbally move on
when you have ritualistic thoughts
and such a prevalent mental scar.
I promise that at the core of my ego
I truly don’t want what I wanted three months ago
I just can’t help but memorize the pain from your low blow.
Trust me, I’m okay today and every other day.
Sometimes timing just doesn’t matter with the OCD brain
and it’s just a matter of accepting the ways our mind plays.
– Valerie Parente (7-23-2020)
Poetry Reading & Analysis (Why I Apologize ~ Tiara ~ Creator ~ Conscience of Nonsense) (VIDEO)
Features “Why I Apologize”, “Tiara”, “Creator”, and “Conscience of Nonsense” from The Artist, The Muse on Amazon.com
Writing Is Therapy
Writing Is Therapy by Valerie Parente
There’s something therapeutic and sincere
about rereading work that was once so dear
because even when you forget the reason behind the rhymes
you remember the lessons they brought to light.
– Valerie Parente (7-21-2020)
Poetry Reading & Analysis (The Gargoyle Mindset ~ Egomaniac ~ Dreams of Floating) (VIDEO)
Poetry Reading & Analysis of poems from The Artist, The Muse including “The Gargoyle Mindset”, “Egomaniac”, and “Dreams of Floating”.
It’s Quite Simple
It’s Quite Simple by Valerie Parente
If you don’t want a girl to write about you being a prick
then don’t use your sharp wit to pierce a narcissist
whose asked you over and over to quit with all the mindgame bullshit
then expect the wound you chose to inflict to be pleasantly dismissed.
– Valerie Parente (7-20-2020)
Rather Be Haunted (VIDEO)
Theme of Rather Be Haunted & Explanation behind Title
– Valerie Parente (7-13-2020)
Head In The Clouds
Head In The Clouds by Valerie Parente
The reality of the situation was way beyond me
and I’m still in deep shock over the whole thing
because I don’t understand how I let the truth go over my head
when my head was sky-high in the clouds
like it’s always been.
– Valerie Parente (7-13-2020)
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