This piece is one of the first poems I wrote after my writer’s burnout. It is poem about breaking through the cracks a bit and starting to journal through the numbness I had towards writing.
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Megumi Jindo
(she/her) Mentee
Megumi Jindo is a senior in high school. She loves writing, reading, listening to music, photography, art, and playing sports. She also loves songwriting and collecting new vocab to expand her writing style. She aims to become a best-selling author one day and wants to use her writing as a way to educate and help America be a better version of itself. Also, she loves sunrises, sunsets, astrology, psychology, and eating junk food!
Favorite Genres/Mediums
Favorite Authors & Artists
Amanda Gorman, Caroline Kennedy
Artist‘s Statement
Throughout my writing journey, I have been using poetry to encapsulate how I feel, and not only that—I show how I feel by using poetic formats, and poetic words. I use nature and the sensitive moments in life (ie. golden hour, sunsets, stars) to shape my writing, and when writing, I also listen to music—which is the force behind letting out my emotion. You can see that a common thread that weaves my work together is the struggles that I have been through and am dealing with—my epiphanies.
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Intentional
Friendship fallouts are the absolute worst. These breakups can consume you like an ocean as the tides of feelings and memories come in and out. Poetry360 mentee Megumi Jindo shares her experience with one of life’s greatest heartbreaks.
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A Letter to My Grandparents
This letter was inspired by a prompt and written after I came back from visiting my grandparents in Japan last summer. It is a letter of eternal thanks and love.
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Frostbites
Hastily jotted at night, during recent teenage angst, inspired by the winter season.
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Two Kids
Pulled from pensive thoughts about pasts and existence, we found ourselves letting go through “Two Kids.”
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Speaking on Night Emotions
This week’s theme is dreams. Episode five of Speaking in First Draft dives deep into the raw emotions that come up in relationships and in first-draft writing.