✿ Nina ✿

yeah, things have been insanely intense here, especially as i'm reaching the end of the semester here.  but to be honest, all i want to do is fix myself up a mug of hot chocolate, cover myself in blankets and try to write something down. i did write something sort of recently, but you'll find that it's definitely not the style of writing you'd find in It, or at least i think so. i think about me nowadays is a lack of confidence, since my poetry writing's a little rusty, but i guess i'll just carefully get into it.
            
            if you do share your poetry one day, do let me know. i would love to indulge myself in some of that charmed-life artistic goodness. maybe we could do an exchange or collaborate or work on the same theme or something haha? but of course - if and when we have the time and energy to.
            
            i will however be going for a mini europe trip and i'm desperately hoping i'll find myself some inspiration there.
            
            also thank you, spoken word is cool af. i really hope to improve it and perhaps inspire other people one day. :)

@DannyCepul i feel you, i've got tons of essay deadlines breathing down my neck as well. ireland sounds lovely, i'd love to study abroad someday... 
            
            funnily, i've just started writing poetry again after a long hiatus (focussing on novel writing and expressing my thoughts in prose scribbling in my journal) bc my mind has been a bit of a mess as of late, and poetry has proven so helpful to sort things out. (nothing serious though so no worries! just a person messing w my head but barely a problem, really) i've thought about publishing it on here again as i do like some of the pieces i've written but they're highly personal so i'm not sure about sharing them at the moment. :/ also quite different in themes than my alphabet soup stuff bc i'm dealing w different things at the moment, though most of them good & happy things c: 
            
            so yeah you see life has its ways of bringing us back to poetry! i'm sure you'll find your inspiration ((or inspiration will meet you)) someday soon. ♥ also i still think the spoken word is so so cool.  really nice to hear of you again c:

i've only just noticed this now, so apologies for the extremely late reply. i'm doing well - albeit a little stressed due assignments, but still breathing all the same. i'm actually doing a semester in europe right now - in ireland to be specific, so it's been a blast and, at times a struggle, adapting myself to the new environment. my poetry writing has been on-off, sadly because of time and i sometimes do seem to struggle to place my mind into where it was when i was at my most active in just spitting out poetry. i do spoken word performances still, here and there, but nothing grand as of recently. i want to get back into it, but i suppose i'm waiting for when the opportunity chooses to strike. but for now, just floating along, hahaha, but still - good!
            
            and thank you for replying! reading alphabet soup has been a major throwback to those good, old days of poetry. so glad that i started out my poetry hobbies here tbh.

@charmed-life Aaah, I just saw this.
            I hope it helped you, haha!
            
            @most_bay you're welcome! Your book helped me a lot, so I thought it'd be a great recommendation for Nina too. x)

@s_huddar thank you for suggesting my vocabulary book. I really hope @charmed-life finds it helpful :)

@s_huddar looks great, thank you so much!! you're a life saver c;

@halimalfoy happy new year to you too, lovely! tysm for thinking of me ♥ we really need to have a lil' chat, it's been way too long.

@tacoglitter that's such a cool name, thanks!! i'll certainly be using that one

Oooh I love Frida!! I’m really into the name Venus right now ‍♀️

@halimalfoy  that's so lovely to hear, glad you're doing fine. i know it is, life's still all sorts of crazy c': good crazy though. just came back from a trip & now on to decorating my dorm. c:

I've been great hun. Sigh, it's been such a long time so I just wanted to pop by and make you remember me wink wink. How's everything? I hope you've been doing okay 

@halimalfoy HALIMAAAAAAA how've you been lately? ♥♥

@ ladyhoneysuckle  this is basically the cutest message i've gotten all week c: 
            maybe that's why we get along so well! infp's for the win ♡

@Areeb_Ahmad have fun with the last season! the last episode got me so emotional c': let me know what you think when you're done. c:
            ahhh indeed, although knowing me i'd use 'fangirling' as a gender neutral term as well c':
            your message actually made me consider re-reading 'the catcher in the rye'. it's been so long since i've last read that one!

@charmed-life Ha ha! I sure will. I have been neglecting SKAM. Have got to finish the last season. A few episodes are left. And it would be fanboying in my case, I suppose. :))

@Areeb_Ahmad thanks! wish you a nice week as well! feel free to send me a message if you ever want to fangirl about any of the above c:

@charmed-life I adore safia elhillo ! Tbh I know her only through her spoken word pieces, but there's this piece called 'Alien Suite' she performed (on YouTube) and it's like a collection of some of her best poems and honestly... I've listened it at least twenty times. Not even kidding. 
            Salma deera is lovely as well ! Gosh I've got some reading to do :D

@ladyhoneysuckle aww it's a lovely lil book, i absolutely recommend it. getting into poetry has been a quite recent thing for me as well (i think it's only been 1 to 2 years since i've first really picked up a poetry book) & i too find it very impactful. 
            haven't heard of safia elhillo before, have to look that up! i do adore waheed, though, she's glorious. if you liked these i really recommend salma deera's works. i love those best in the genre. she writes powerful poetry about being a woman, a person of colour, and someone who loves too much.  ♥

@charmed-life I've been meaning to buy her poetry book but I don't have the funds yet lol. From the little I've read, she sounds absolutely breathtaking. Especially those tidbits in beyonce's album (when I learned that they were by warsan I leapt) and my favorite of her works has to be 'for women who are difficult to love.'
            
            I've been reading a lot more poetry recently ! It's cathartic, really. Esp nayyirah waheed and safia elhillo and yrsa daly-ward. Strong women with strong words, and it's glorious to finally find someone who relates ❤

@ladyhoneysuckle yay, all these recs, thank you so much! don't know this one yet, so i'll have some reading to do. c:

@charmed-life Never disappoints !
            
            (btw I don't know if you know her already but u should give Naomi shihab Nye's poetry a read. Absolutely brilliant. Red brocade is my favourite,, I think, along with Kindness. I think you might like them as well :)