Creative Writing
Be silly and our soul will speak. - Paul Matthews
A collection of my creative writing pieces.
Raw and free.
In this moment
Without the sea, crows become sorrow
Sea carries death
I couldn’t utter any word
My body’s a mess of blood and thinking
Please, wind and sun carry me away
To any path of your flow
Why I had to squeeze
To find arguments
The truth I worship
My pain intensified
By the images
Of the coming reality
Of others
Not mine
I, no, who? What?
The road is here
For our daily movement
Can you recall its birth?
Why building again?
Progress for what?
For shattered mountains
For displaced people?
Is it the ask of nature?
Or only your greed?
Ocean sounds like thunder
Running through me
As if my organism’s echoing
For our fragile home
How can I speak for its pain?
The pain of no blood
Can the sun burn my skin?
Can the sky shake my anger?
Trembling
Hold on to a memory
My selfish small memory
Of a place
Being forgotten
Venturing to the unknown
I see the world
Imagine my forgotten place
Can you stay as you are now?
Don’t become a memory.
Please.
- 26.01.2025
@Dune beach, Pondicherry
How can I allow myself to be myself?
Can I continue to discover and accept myself?
What uplift my stormy days so as to be with others?
Should I be more like the wind?
Is it ok to do nothing at all?
When is the time for me to play? open? converse? meet you?
Where will I be today in one year time?
Who will I be today in one year time?
Will I sing everyday with you?
Have you been acting truly?
Which socks have you lost throughout your whole life?
Why am I having lots of doubt and thoughts?
Do I know you?
Would you rather have a banana or an orange?
Shall we cook the most creative food ever?
Did we finish?
by Jemima, Nele & Linh @theHive, YIP
- 06.05.2025
Tỉnh dậy và rũ bỏ ưu tư
Một ngày tốt lành sẽ đến
mong được chấp nhận và yêu thương
phải chấp nhận sự rạn nứt
sự xấu xí
ngày mới đến
mới mẻ, tuôn trào
bắt tay kiến tạo tri thức
kỉ niệm
hãy để điều bất ổn ra đi
ngủ ngoan hơn
cho làn tóc bồng bềnh
cho trái tim thương tổn sống dậy.
- 23.03.2025
@Matsevani, Georgia
March is matching
I. wonder. my presence
hanging my clothes under the sun, finally
sitting with the sun
am I in the bubble?
so I see the city naively?
on a searching and learning journey
I must write to realize
what this's all about.
- 09.03.2025
@Yeravan, Armenia
Tản mạn chiều cuối năm
Ngày cuối năm trên đường đi khám phá
Rừng Cúc Phương ngàn đó còn đây
Bao cây cối tầng tầng lớp lớp
Ánh sáng le lói khắp đâu đây
Tạo cảnh yên bình kỳ diệu thay
Mơ ước một lần đặt dấu ấn
Hôm nay ta thỏa nỗi ước mong
Niềm vui đó còn nhân lên gấp bội
Đường đồng hành ta có những bạn thân
Lên lên xuống xuống lên lên xuống
Xuống xuống lên lên lại xuống lên
Lên xuống tuy mệt nhưng vui lắm!
Đường lên dốc núi xa thăm thẳm
Chân bước gập ghềnh ríu rít ca
Chào xuân năm mới xuân Ất Tỵ
Cầu chúc cho nhau vạn sự an
Nắm tay cùng bước qua gian nan
Chào đón năm mới nhiều cao sang
Xuân tới Hè sang Thu Đông tới
Mong cả một năm Hoa nở rộ
Tỏa ngát hương thơm dặm đường đời
Xanh ôi xanh quá xung quanh tôi
Ngân nga tiếng hát mẹ tôi vang
Những bước chân dài cứ thẳng tiến
Nhẹ bẫng lòng tôi trong mơ màng
Chỉ đi và cuốn chân theo ánh sáng
Thời gian trôi thật nhanh
Ngày cuối năm còn đâu nữa
Tự hỏi ngày mai sẽ ra sao
Vui thật vui vì chúng ta đồng hành
Dù có tranh cãi ngang dọc đường
Phì cười cho qua
Vì đường còn xanh mát
Vì ta còn sống để hiện diện cùng trời mây
- 01.01.2025
- bởi gia đình tôi @Ninh Binh Road Trip
Du xuân Ninh Bình
Hôm nay ta tới Tràng An
Di sản thế giới thật là khó quên
Ngồi thuyền ngắm cảnh hữu tình
Núi cao trùng điệp tiếng cười rộn vang
Qua hang động đẹp ngút ngàn
Tượng hình tạo bởi ngàn đời triều dâng
Ôi vẻ đẹp trời ban tặng
May mắn giây phút này ta chiêm ngưỡng
Ngỡ mình lạc bước trong mơ
Đất Ninh Bình tạo hoá thành kỳ quan
Xa xa súng nở hồng tươi
Le le ngụp lặn tìm mồi dưới hoa
Tre vàng ngả bóng thướt tha
Vối xanh hoa đã nở vàng đợi ai
Nơi đây có tự bao giờ
Nước sông xanh ngắt thuyền trôi lững lờ
Tiếng ca vang vọng nơi đây
Không gian náo nhiệt ta cùng cười vui
Ta ngồi luồn hang lướt sóng
Nhìn trời mây sông núi cao vời vợi
Cô lái đò chèo cần mẫn
Ngày rộng tháng dài cùng nhau đi tiếp
Hữu duyên hồn ta tương phùng
Tạm biệt ta đi hẹn ngày gặp lại.
- 01.01.2025
- bởi gia đình tôi @Ninh Binh Road Trip
Open mic night
the beauty of music
my heart was touched
from classic to personal
cosiness
juggling
poetry
skit
singing
dancing
capturing this moment
remember it
when life gets tough.
- 04.10.2024
@Tallevana
Feelings varied like river messed by the wind
unstable
cleaning and working on my soul
not ready at all
in the library I read
"I do not know how to say goodbye."
me neither
I want to land here longer
my tree body just started sprouting
rich soil, clean air
I just see how I am full of metals
in my body, in my vein
I just realize the link to the cosmos
why leaving?
as time's not in our hands
I want to take charge of time
for once
in Jarna
we are full and connected
we've loved each other more
sometimes I do not know how to show my love for others
I wish this journey to be long
at sea
like forever moving
how powerful community living is
being part of the dynamic, colorful souls
winter comes, days short like fallen leaves
want to catch them, but too slow
the darkness
my slowness
still beautiful
dear sky
dear earth
this land hugs me
I give you my hugs and all
can you feel that?
the light today coated me with joy
closed my eyes to feel it sit on my face
please let me be with you for a while
before you go, I make space for you
before I go, stay with me.
- 14.11.2024
@my room, Tallevana, YIP
Stone as a piece,
as a part of a whole
dead leaves, dead parts of trees
the rest keeps thriving and grounding
learn to let go of the non existence
how to take care of my being
and the whole being
finding breath, signal of life
in the rottenness
in the darkness
I'll be like an ant
freely move
build a cosy home
for my collective.
- 03.10.2024
@The Art of Hosting, Sweden
My face's iced
my nose's runny
clumsily hold a pen
gazing at me, the sun
as if I am puzzled
but no
I've laid my fretting down
will move to create warmth
energy
strength
colors
hold myself centered
the wind still blows
I am still alive.
- 13.10.2024
@into the woods
Birds, I don't see you
but I hear you
can you hear my heart?
confusing of a light.
- 15.09.2024
@facing the sun
Days go by
while nights stay stuck
the moon's slowly up
during which I remember our first laugh
witnessed by the stillness of the sky
I get lost by the sparks reminding me of your eyes
I jump back in time and fly towards the future
but going back is hard
your touch does not leave my mind
are you there? or was it just one time?
- by Ada & Linh @Writing Creatively with Paul Matthews
- 08.05.2025
See
reveal
constant waves
can I be like the wind?
changes
reminders
pain
regret
the only one, and forever
even the smallest leaf still sprout
am I sprouting?
- 07.05.2025
@Nibble House
I am a tree as having root
where does the root grow and expand?
I have to see where it comes from first
first and foremost
I am here as a plant that wishes to move and be alive
I am a stone that's shaped by movements of water and within
where's the water from?
I am the air that's released and moving in the universe
I am the dust on the coastal line
dust of no name
tiny weight
I am the bird, learning to fly
in the outer vastness
the space of much freedom and wind
I am the feather falling out and drifting
the sky's looking at me and say:
find somewhere to land!
I am the brush that like to add colors to a canvas
colors of brightness, warmth and aliveness
like red and green
green, evergreen
orange, deeply intense orange
I am orange today.
- 06.05.2025
@theHive, YIP Campus
Nước biển xanh ngắt
tự là sóng
tự là mây
vô hướng, thênh thang
trăng tròn vằng vặc
lạnh, lửa, vòng tròn
quây quần bên nhau
một giấc mơ tươi đẹp nhất
để tôi đắm đuối
hồn nhẹ như mây.
- 13.04.2025
@Biển Baltic
“I am a bee
Finding flowers to pollinate
In a place meeting Europe and Asia
Found answers to my guiding questions
How destined!
There in Georgian sky, live loving bees
From Parzival colony
In their time of youth impulses
Constantly moving and collecting honey
Honey of love, social health and justice
For the peace and freedom they long for
Storm of regulations
No sign of surrender
Only fire and humor alive
Why would I surrender?
Accepting the route to Armenian sky
Just another new space
My YIP colony never left me
Flying our way, and together
Yet as a little bee, can I just travel freely like others?
What is my fate?
Where is the light?
Are there flowers in Yeravan city?
Oh!
A city on a mountain
Free water from fountains
I found a warm garden - Aregnazan Waldorf school
Wonderstruck, pollinating is welcome!
Anywhere, anytime
So, I collected honey day by day
A beehive was born
Afterall, across the sky, and all forces.
Here in Sweden sky
My beehive’s returned and expanding
Can you feel it?”
- 31.03.2025
@Harvested my internship
What is love?
how to love?
who to love?
love as I live
do I have to prove my love?
love's the unseen
the untouchable
love's in the breath
love's in the light
transparent and full
with all attention
being loved and be loving
as long as the breath lasts
love's alive
touching every sense
transcending time
transcending distance.
- 04.02.2025
@Auroville
Be and becoming
move like ocean waves
like everything else
nothing is stable
I don't know how to say goodbye
so I didn't say
meetings are so special
meetings of life
unknown
strangers
or we've met?
maybe no need a reason
just happen
the natural course
- 31.01.2025
@Ocean near Auroville
Sống vô tư
tự do như làn gió
như dòng sông trôi
dù có gập ghềnh hay giông bão
vẫn sẽ tung cánh bay
vẫn sẽ bám rễ vào đất
năm mới đến rồi
thời khắc chuyển giao
lung linh
ngỡ ngàng
hồn tôn, dòng máu Việt
dòng máu dân tộc
dòng máu gia đình
nếu được sống cùng trời đất
tôi muốn bố mẹ đi cùng tôi
theo năm tháng
theo vũ trụ
sẽ bình tĩnh
thở và chìm đắm trong từng lúc
bây giờ chính là quá khứ và tương lai
chúc mừng năm mới
sống mới mẻ
tràn trề nhựa và trồi non
tâm hồn bay bay
chạm đất
chạm tới đại dương
chạm dải ngân hà
với thiên nhiên và vạn vật
- 28.01.2025
Trước Giao thừa @Auroville
Bird chirping
calling or inviting life
with alive trees and cut ones
space of shade
space of openness
my hometown, my people
touching trees that firmly ground
wonder how our trees could fall
children and adults
surrendered
mother nature, could you listen to me?
sorry if we have hurt you badly
taking our lessons
but many only make ends meet
we will be kinder
please rise again, trees and my people
we will be stronger
for the wounds and loss.
- 08.09.2024
@pine forest, next to Baltic Sea
Wine spilled
laugh at myself
add ordor to the air
glad that we've been half way
thirty hours without the bed
cosier
more energetic
having each other.
- 17.12.2024
@flying to India
Sunrise
wish to see what's inside the country
the moon followed me from India
wonder if things would be as my wish
suddenly feel alien going home
truth or my perception?
who am I on the move?
who knows me after all?
wish to talk to Thai speakers around
yet I close myself
or too much self focus?
miss Thailand much
send my love to you.
- 18.12.2024
@Donmuang airport
The sun finally turned up
rain has drenched us
here gathering
inner presence
or meetings
we busk
I feel
the oneness.
- 14.12.2024
Last Sunday @CESCI, Tamil Nadu
The bluer sky
on foot we admired the space
people smiled to us
eucalyptus smiled to us
maybe all wondered
who are you?
why are you avoiding the spikes?
- 08.12.2024
@Outdoor in Madurai
Summer green
winter bare
wondering in thoughts
catching joy and questions with friends
Sweden and the sky
blue and blues
what around?
all from the mind
- 01.09.2024
First week @YIP
The days've passed
we stepped over distance
facades of situations
unspoken told
feelings
the most gentle touch
anywhere I could be
friendship, love, connections
sip and savour our time.
- 11.05. 2024
@Indonesia
