The New Beginning

For almost four years, Someplace Else Instead has been where I posted my poetry since my sophomore year of high school.  While it still remains a place where I can reflect on my growth as both a person and a creative writer, I have decided to bid SEI farewell.

In light of this, I have decided to create a new home for my poetry.  I think of it as buying new furniture after having the same set for such a long time, but at the same time, keeping the old set of furniture because it is beautiful to look at, as if it is antique.

I have named this blog The World in Me.  It comes from a favorite quote from a short story (or reflective essay, per se) that I have recently felt a huge connection to that I would like to share:

"This sense of 'the world in me' is how I always want to feel.
That one in the mirror has his doubts sometimes. 
So I am tender with him.
Every morning I touch the mirror and whisper,
'Oh, friend, I hear a dance. Will you be my partner? Come.'"
-M. Jackson

This post is titled "The New Beginning", to go along with the last post on SEI ("The End (not really)").  I am excited to begin writing poetry here, just as I was when I first created SEI, and I hope that you enjoy it, too, whoever you are.

Book II begins here.

~LJ

6 February 2016