Sc a ttE rE D

"In you there's freedom for my soul" --Chris Tomlin, "I Will Follow

Ma y be
 
 We 're  all  going mad,

           Or
 crazy,

                    or
 wild.
 
       Ma y be                     we   should
 s
 t
     o
  p

 reading oN the LiNEs, and read BetWeEN them insteaD, 

     And     
          start
            being
     sc   att e r e                       d.
 
 It's okay to be different,

                                    to be the one with the PurPle hair,

           Or Pearl eyes,
    Or green
              skin.


     Maybe you hoot out your laughs,
                        or sNeezE like an elEphant,
  Or snore like a great
 bi g
 G r i Z z l y  bear;

 It's
 o
 k
 a
 y

              to            be



            s c att                                            er ed

 and

 different,              and totally abnormal!


 To have your toes on your
   head
 

                                   or your teeth as
                                   your fingers.

 It's okaY
 to
 b  e

 Y
    O
         U!
 
                                    

Author's Note

This poem was so fun to right; thank you so, so much for reading!

Reviews

[hi]

i love it, did you think of this idea your self or did you copy from somewhere, i liked how to placed the letters

[MelanieAnn]

Thank you :) Actually, have you ever read The Girl from The Well by Rin Chupeco? Okiku is the main character in the story, and her narratives are sometimes like that. When Okiku gets mad, the words are indented way further from the rest of the paragraphs or sometimes her letters
a
r
e

l
i
k
e

t
h
i
s

and I thought, well, this book is so different, and then in this poem I seriously wanted to get across that being different is good, so I scattered the letters all over the page.

[hi]

that is cool, good thinking, and no i have not read that book is it good, well to be honest i have yet to real many books but i plan on changing that, and iam trying to write a book myslef but not for just myself, so you said you wrote a book, i need to check into that i might buy that off amazon tell me more about it first, and i love to chat later.

[JBoone]

AWESOME!!!! Love it. I needed some creativity in my life and this is marvleous. So true. Coloring outside the lines is so fun, and needed.

[MelanieAnn]

Haha thank you so much, coloring outside the lines fun ;)

[Coyote Poetry]

I like the flow of words and how you set-up the places and the thoughts.
"The good thing, though, is that he'll always be with her,
Because tattoos stick around forever,
like him. "
Those old tattoos become honored memories. Thank you Melanie for sharing your excellent poetry.
Coyote