Questioning - Hello Poetry

Sep 2018

Anya

Smart

What is being smart?
I've always wondered
Is it having innate talent?
Or being exceedingly knowledgeable?
Perhaps, having the skills to survive in one's society?
...
Is it a special skill?
Is it something that can be cultivated?
Is it limited to certain people?
...
So what is it?
...
...
...
I'd really like to know

#smart #skill #innate #cultivated #people #intelligent #skillful #question #developed

Sep 2018

Anya

Sportsmanship

They say...

it isn't about winning or losing
it's the sport
and the people who play it
But is it really?

#win #lose #winning #losing #sportsmanship #sport #people #play #enjoy #fun

Sep 2018

Anya

Me

I am what
Sitting here
The essential paradox
To me at least
Since,
isn’t MY biggest concern of course
Me?

#me #thoughts #paradox

Sep 2018

Anya

Paradox Perhaps...?

I do think someone who adamantly denies themselves would
Possibly write a poem judging others for reading
Their poem
But wouldn’t that be denying others
Not them?

#paradox #denying #poem #poetry #denial #self #dislike #deprivation

Sep 2018

Anya

To **** a Fictional Character

How much conscience must one lack to
**** a fictional character
But it’s not a matter of how much one lacks
Because to them,
The video game
Board game
Character
That lies in the figments of one’s thoughts
Is not living
Simply empty shells
With a name
Easy
Too easy to swipe off a board
To swipe off a screen

But then again,
Are they easy to erase because they are not living?

For, there are people in the profession of-
People who raise to slaughter-
People who make sport out of-
Animals
Specifically,
Their deaths
To raise, end, and eat
Wilder animals to catch
And place in a cage
Loss of freedom
Or loss of live
What kind of a choice is that?

So then, if not living
The
Line must be drawn at humans
Isn’t that the case?
But, isn’t it also true
That a human life can disappear at a simple,
...

#life #death #killing #animals #characters #people #violence

Sep 2018

Anya

What if we noticed?

The insect’s trills
Louder than ever
But
Somehow
Ignored
What would happen,
If we noticed
All those things that tend to pass us by
...
Madness perhaps?

#unnoticed #madness #noises #ignored #bombarded #too #much

Sep 2018

Anya

In a box

I am in a box
As I reach out
Touch the walls
This strange barrier that separates me
From the other
Anything external
Different
Other
A hand from the box adjacent to mine appears
Splayed against the wall
I reach out mine
The dark and light contrast
Like the Chinese symbol Ying and yang
Other clearly
Other
Even a child could tell the difference
But,
Who does it take to look past the differences?

#racism #external #internal #society #different #culture #ethnicity #people #black #white

Sep 2018

Anya

Myself

Why should I?
I ask my insistent self
And instead of
Giving me some convincing reason
She says
Why should I?

No matter what others say, the only one who can truly understand or at least speak for ourselves is ourselves. Also bringing the idea that the only way to be content isn’t to look for external answers but to be happy with ourselves.

#society #self #confidence #security #people #thoughts

Sep 2018

Anya

Who am I writing for?

Before I realized it
I began writing for the readers
Not completely
But
Through little things
I avoided long
Too much rambling
Uninteresting
I subconsciously
Diverged towards
Topics I believed would catch my readers attention
Still involving my emotions
Yet
With bias
Which begs the question
Who am I writing for
Truly?

#poetry #society #readers #writers #fear #question

Sep 2018

Anya

Tomorrow

It’s a coming
Not yet arrived
Seemingly soon
Yet out of reach
Only there for the journey
Chasing after an untouchable destination
Which begs the question
Are you there for the journey or
The destination?

#tomorrow #journey #end #question #goal #unreachable

Sep 2018

Anya

Taste

If you think about it
Taste
Is simply our mouth’s perception
Of food
A label
Way to identify
The real purpose
Is to be broken down
For fuel, to patch up, to help us grow
Basically construction material
Yet
We put so much emphasis on taste
We identify food with it
We have chefs
We have critics
We have pastry chefs
We have sous chefs
We have so many different varieties, cuisines, etc etc etc
Yet, it’s a whole field, a whole profession, a big deal out of nothing
As we humans are so skilled at doing
Yet,
Is it nothing?
Truly?

If you are a chef or love food and are reading this, nothing against you, I did not mean to offend. I was simply letting out the thoughts in my head, if you have an opinion or input please, comment. And if you have something that changes my perception I totally wouldn’t mind changing the poem.

#food #taste #purpose #chefs #society

Sep 2018

Anya

“Selfless”

When
Your helping her helping him
It’s for your own gain
Either it benefits you
It makes you feel good or better about yourself
It’s someone you love or like
All of these are for yourself
There is no “selfless”

But

Neither is it selfish
People connotate
selfish
With bad
It doesn’t have to be
Why should we
Do something if we have no motivation?

Motivation
Comes from
Us having some stake
Some benefit
Something to gain
Some reason to act
To speak
To behave

So it’s not selfish
I the cynic would say,
Nor is it selfless
There is no such thing
It’s simply the cogs and mechanics
That turn
And enable us to act
Speak
Behave
Work

Because why would we do anything without a reason
even if that reason happens to be boredom
or curiosity?

#selfish #selfless #people #society #behavior

Sep 2018

Anya

What we don’t Have

I am no celestial
I have no wings of gold
But
Rather than focusing on what we don’t have
What do we?

#desires #society #have #dont #greedy #thankful #great #full