Story Spotlight: My Dead Imagination
Tall tales, ripping yarns and fantastical poetry; jump into some of our young writers’ work.
Zuzu – a young writer from our 8-12 year old Community Writing Labs – shares their beautiful poem My Dead Imagination. This thoughtful and hopeful writing explores the feeling of when your ideas are just out of reach, holding back, waiting for the right moment to burst forward.
My Dead Imagination
Sometimes my imagination is dead
Sometimes my imagination can’t think
Sometimes it’s too tired
like it has withered into a dead cacoon.
But it doesn’t mean it can’t feel.
It feels like it wants to burst into a thousand butterflies
Like it has an idea on the tip of its tongue
Like it’s hibernating ’til a thought blossoms like a flower
Like an introvert going outside
Like a baby growing its first tooth
Like a seed sprouting, like a storm cloud brewing
Like an eye blinking
Like a child laughing
Like a girl blushing
Like a fire crackling
Like a typewriter typing
Like my dead imagination thinking again
Sometimes my imagination is dead.
By Zuzu
