a compilation of writings and lots of ideas
The path of my thoughts Montserrat Hermosillo
INDEX Introduction........................................................1 First poem: bleakflower....................................2 Diary entry: 19 sept.......................................3-4 6 word memoir…………….............................5 Acronym………………...................................6 Short story: Nature kid................................7-12 Second poem: I´m grateful...........................13 Conclusion:....................................................14
INTRODUCTION Writing has been part of us since we were children. It helps us to communicate, to express ourselves and to learn. We all have different ideas and things in our hearts, and this magazine is a compilation of mine. It is the set of work that I did in the literature class during the semester. And all of them, are more than a school job. In them are my feelings, ideas, experiences and emotions. From a memoir of 6 words, to a short story, all of them with a small part of me, and my crazy ideas. I hope with all your heart that you like it. My favorite and also the most complicated to do, was the short story. Thank you for your attention, and I hope you like it very much, and that you enjoy it as much as I write it. Thanks Miss Cris because although at the moment I did not want to do things, it will leave me with a very nice experience of writing all this in your class.
FIRST POEM
Bleak Flower I´ve got a felling More chaotic than any other Is to feel to found The poison, The cure, and the powder. All of them, in the same flower. But, that is the only flower That I´ve ever found in my desolated garden With a broken stem, but with a really deep root. Just like pollen, like nectar on my stigma An enigma This balm is not healing my scars Don´t abuse from my heart Your bleakness and your sweetness Are easily on a civil war Because It doesn´t heal, but doesn´t kill.
DIARY ENTRY SEPTEMBER 19
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 That day, something that I thought long time ago that would never happen to me, happened. An earthquake of great magnitude hit my city, and my country. After you have taken days before the strongest earthquake ever recorded, came this day, two hours after the great simulation, a catastrophe that opened the eyes and hearts of all Mexicans. 32 years after the catastrophe, just on the day of the anniversary of that event as chaotic, something very serious affected a large part of my country, leaving home to many more people than they already had been after without house two weeks before, and now, the number increased. I was taking classes, it was one of my favorite subjects. Ethics and values. We were talking about controversial topics, and I was standing. From one moment to another, a gnashing of earth began to resonate. And a few seconds later, the alarm that would confirm what she believed. 32 years later, on the same day, I was living the same as my parents and grandparents had lived; an earthquake of great magnitude. We all started to leave. Panic began to leave, we did not know what to do. Communications were gone, all we were worried. Our parents, siblings, relatives. What would become of them? No longer know what to do.
They were all mothers, or the majority, ran to find their children. In minutes they were here. We went out to the street, we saw all empty. There was nothing and no one. Began the assaults, and the dangers. No one knew what to do. Exit to help or stay at home. There was nothing to do in that day. Only the frustration of knowing what was happening. In rural places near where you lived, there were people trapped, people scared and people without life, which could even be your own family, or a loved one. The aid began a day after, and we all went out to help. Either to buy food, to assist in a collection center, or go directly to the rubble. All of this changed the perspective of all Mexicans. Help came from all sides, on the part of the people that less than you would think. Any change, or at least, for a few moments. Be that as it may, it will be something that I will never forget
6 word memoir
ACRONYM My name is Montserrat, and I was born On April, in Aguascalientes Nitrogen is my favorite element Tortas are my favorite Food Snakes are my religion End with this Acronym with a goodbye.
When a kid opened his heart to nature short story Travelling on car is one of the favorite journal of this little guy, who never stays quiet or neither quiescent, but, like magic, he stays lost on the deepest part of his thoughts. Theo is a 10 year-old infant with too much energy and intelligence that always has a smile and a good attitude for service, almost a considered perfect kid for anyone. He is not like other kids. He prefers one thousand times to spend his free-time doing things that are almost the opposite things that other kids would like to do, and that’s one of the reasons he is always segregated from others, and also, his physical appearance do not help him to much. He is a black-haired guy, with big black amber eyes, and really, really bushy eyebrows, living and studding in and entity full bigotry people, who think that mongrel people like him are not really trustable.
He lived a really beautiful childhood, like few children, aparted from technology, and having fun with even the smallest and most simple things, he would be happy, but, in a “globalized” world full of technology, kids don´t consider this cool, they even think, at that short age of 10 years, that he is a dull poor children, and, he is from the same social class than him.
He didn’t cared about this problems, and he continued living his life as he was, with that parents that loved him so much. But, one day, something changed, because when he saw himself at that day on the morning brushing his hair, something changed. He found out that he was different than the others, and, for any reason, he did not liked that feeling. So, he arrived to his school, and started to look around and realized that he was a oddball. He didn´t liked sports, he wasn´t the best at school, he had too much energy and speaked that much that people just told him to shut up. His started to feel really bad about it, and he went home some ours later. He was sitted at the side of the road, and thinking about everything that happened that day. Theo was a really selective guy due to the friends he had. At that short age, he believed that people that were near to him needed to give him an honest friendship, so that’s why, he had only 2 friends, Anne and Noah. Anne was a ginger girl, with really curly hair, and Noah a blond that uses fun glasses on his face. This three guys had many adventures together, but the thing was that they were all from different schools. They saw each other once a week, on Saturdays on a beautiful forest near their houses. It was one of the most beautiful in that entity, buy, no body went there.
So, in the Saturday of the same week that Theo was feeling bad with himself, they went together to this place, and Anne proposed a game. -Hey, what about searching from some flowers and insects, the one that had the most beautiful ones will win- She said The other two guys accepted easily and they divided in order for going to search for this animals. And, Theo started walking around, and he was just thinking about his situation, and he couldn’t concentrate and he only found 2 worms and some mushrooms that had nothing interesting. The three guys later came together some minutes later, to see who had won the game, and well, Theo wasn´t with the spirit of continuing playing, he got mad and started walking around. Anne was trying to follow him, and tell him that everything was ok, but, he got even more cross, and screamed to her to go away from him, and she, with tears on her eyes, started to walk to the other side. After about 40 minutes of walking around, Theo fell down on a grotto that he never had seen before and he fainted. A lot of time passed, and then, he waked up, but he was in a weird place. He didn´t understood what was happening. He was on a beautiful old hut, lying on a small table with a quilt full of colors. After this, he stayed in the same place, thinking and trying to find an understandable and logic explanation, and suddenly, he forgot all his problems when he saw something both, amazing and terrifying. Something, or someone was coming. It was one of the prettiest women he had ever seen. She was tall, with long curly brown hair, and elfeves feautures, and green eyes who was dressed with a big green dress.
He stayed aghast with her, but, he wasn’t scared. He was trying to speak to her, but a bigger force prevented him for doing it. She saw him, and went with him. They both crossed looks, and no one said nothing. After some minutes, she started to speak. -I´m glad you are here, Theo. I knew you were about to come here, since so much time ago. It´s nice to see you here, but maybe, you´re asking yourself why you are here- she said. -Hi.., hi. Well, I just fell down and I don’t know anything, I don’t even remember why.She smiled, and fondle him. -Oh Theo, that isn’t the only reason of why you are here. You are really special, and we met when you were just 4 years old-Well, I don’t remember seeing you before-You were too young, but, in the moment I saw you, I knew you were the one. I knew that I would find you in the moment that you become more mature, and, when you starting to doubt about certain things, you know of what I´m talking about. So, we have to talk really seriously.-About what?-Theo, we both know that you are different from other humans. You see the world with a different perspective, and that’s really nice. The majority of humans and lost, ironically, their human side. They have disconnected from nature, and have sunk in technology. They only think of themselves, and they do not see the wonderful species that they are. They reach the point where the races are separated only because they are different, and believe, that the differences are bad, but in truth, they are what make them unique. You have only focused on the physical, not the internal. Theo, your world is running out. Countries are at war, people have lost
their spiritual connection. Nothing is the same. They do not care about anything, and we have to change that as soon as possible. Little one, I know you've begun to see the bad in the world, and you've begun to doubt. Quiet, always look for the good inside the bad. You are young, very young even, and you, along with a few more humans, could help me to avoid this.Theo had no words. He just asked her who was she, to what she answered… -My name is Gaia. I´m the goddess of nature. I came to your plane in different ways and forms. I am everything, even I am you. Every living thing, everything that surrounds you. Every plant, every animal, every small bacterium. I am the entire planet, and today, I want to introduce myself to you so that you can help me change your human brothers. Few humans can see me in a human form, but, believe it or not, they've all seen me, one way or another, though their eyes sometimes do not want to open.-So, what can I do to help you? - Theo said. -It's still you and no one else. Do not let anything change you. Keep loving everything and use that energy you have to do good things. No matter what they say, do or feel the others. You are beautiful, inside and out. I´ll be there with you, always, your whole life. Just look around and you will find me, someone with whom you can trust. I´ll be showing you some things, but everything when it´s necessary. We will see each other again, trust in me.
I´m part of you, not separated from you. I´m nature, I´m life. When humans think they lost the connection with me, they have lost the connection with themselves. I have to go now. I´m very glad to see you. Greet your parents, we get along really well, them and me.The women began to dissapear, and then, he fell asleep. When he woke up, he was sleeping on the floor of his garden. His friends arrived and, like a deja vú, everything started again. After playing, he went home with his parents, and he told them everything that happened. They just smiled, and with tears in their eyes, they hugged him. 20 years later Theo is now 29 years old, and thanks to him, many things have chang on his town. People is now more tolerant, and, they take care more of their environment. He lives happy, and always trying to help others. He has spent his short life on being an activist, changing people’s mind. He also uses the power of nature to help people in need, in every way and all situations possible. He has one kid, and a wife. They all live happy together. One day, they were having a trip on car for vacations, one of the things that both parent and son loved since they were small, and, they went t the forest in which everything started. The boy went to explore the place. He was just like his father, but, with the personality of his mother. Night was coming and his kid wasn´t coming. He went to search for him. When he find him, she saw him, but, with a women that was really familiar to him. He was just a kid when he met her. “You only need to open your heart and close your eyes to find nature´s beauty”
Second Poem I´m grateful I´m grateful I´m grateful because I´m alive Because I can touch the sky Because I can breath I´m grateful because I can see Because I can smell Because I can smile I´m grateful because of life Because in every breath Because in every step You´re still at my side
SO, FINALLY, WITH THIS MAGAZINE,
I can conclude THAT...
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” —Virginia Woolf