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ALandOfDrums
My obsession with stories began as an avid reader. I was in awe, with their ability to create worlds. Shaping emotion and ideas, with words.
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$50 prize. What does it mean to be a good writer? Does good writing even matter, or have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok etc. turned us into mindless, unsophisticated zombies who no longer care for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, or creativity?
$50 to the author of whichever post I find most insightful.
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Symbols on Pages

A great mind thinks

And no matter the subject of his greatness

The thought is lost without our art

It is made with innumerable characters

That we have imbued to contain the Universe

It is our method of permanence

We not scientists have made

The human mind immortal

With the power of our symbols on pages

ALandOfDrums

Lyrical

The twists and curls of our tongues

Have built and sharpened

Our certainties and fears

ALandOfDrums

To Be Human

I am bound to think

And I crave answers to all things

I am weak and strong

Ignorant and prodigious

I fear death and worship life

It is with humility I know

That in relativity I am small

But. I still fight to be grand!

ALandOfDrums

Human One

My heart aches,

Why do words from others break us

Is it faulty, the wiring and meat

Its signals crossed and damaged

Are those words true

ALandOfDrums

Home is a Place to Me

There are many houses, ones I’ve lived in

Many places where I laid my head,

but there are no memories of these places.

Instead they emulsify, and have been lost,

in a great mass of a bad childhood,

with bland details and forgettable names.

That place you call home is only so...

because your brick and wooden houses, are home

to you...to me it’s another place.

A new one, again.

A place without carvings in a doorframe,

one with no holiday cheer of many years.

There is no attachment

and it has no hold over me, these places...

that you call home.

ALandOfDrums

Wars Among the Stars

Clashing like hard flames

Dancing, swift movement and energy

Their ancient masters guiding them

The light or the dark

These sides burn with heated strife

Their feud immortal

Galaxy weeps like rains

They meet, suffer injury

Creating mayhem

Fighting to keep the spark

Brought to every persons life

Fate like immortelle

Challenge
Hogwarts house
There is a site called Pottermore that was created by JK Rowling. Go and create an account. You can find out your patronus, your house, and your wand, and more. After you find out come back here and tell me your house and whether you are satisfied with it or not, be sure to tag me!
ALandOfDrums

A Serpent

Ambition made flesh

A Creature made of cunning

Inspiring more

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A small dedication to to positive qualities of a Slytherin. Enjoy

ALandOfDrums

Eventually

There is hardly room to breathe

In the darkest parts of me

I sink beneath its thick and heavy pitch

I’m not one to ask

And no one sees the pain

The horror of being empty

It’s nothing like the river Lethe

As it offers no chance to flee

And gives no peace to reach

But I’ll scream through the mask

And hope it is not in vain

Someday... I’ll be mighty

ALandOfDrums

Fight For It

I wish to tell her

Well actually that her is me

To keep up her dream

Although and nothing

Do not stand as obstacles

Chase it and you fight

For the time I have

I wish to be only proud

Of the reflection

ALandOfDrums

Insomnia

There are times that I

...Sleep in peace, others where it’s

Only dead to me