Just thoughts

"Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me... Later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl." Anne Frank couldn't have been more wrong.      This is the first time I've read anything in a diary format, and this was a good start! In the beginning, Anne's thoughts and sometimes self-centred ideas (as she admits later on in the diary) are adorable, and quite relatable to my own thoughts a few years ago when I was thirteen. Slowly as each tragedy befalls the Franks, the plot thickens. We all live through Anne's initial fright and panic as they go into hiding.       Then come the funny incidents and anecdotes of Anne and her thoughts on them, on how weird adults might seem sometimes, and the periodic quarrels that break out between the inmates of the 'Secret Annexe'. Then, gradually, Anne steps into adulthood and focuses more on her intrinsic thoughts and feelings. Her writ...

  I It is bitter cold My cold is bitter Yet I stand on the open  Terrace, watching the stars. So far away from us; mere pinpricks  on the grand canvas of space and time Yet so profound, so numerous… They make me forget my miserable, puny, mortal problems. II The smoke from cars rise Buildings, factories, ugly Human creations vomit smoke into the cool dark air Now there are no stars They have lived their  twilight existence And now they are gone Probably forever, from the sky. I want to see the hordes of stars but they have died In my city’s sky- killed by the smoke. P.S. At the suggestion of a neighbor, I started reading the beautiful works of Mary Oliver. This is my first venture into free verse inspired by Ms. Oliver, which I haven’t stepped in before, because I thought it was against the spirit of poetry. But after reading her works, I understood that free verse is not a disgrace to poetry, but rather a wonderful addition to it. When ...