I Need to Scream

I need to scream

But nothing comes

Because it's this family

That doesn't speak

Of blues and hurt

Read the full poem in the tiny wren magazine.

I had my first poem accepted for publication today! 🥹 Over Christmas, the pressure to perform, to keep quiet and conform, very much got to this mildly disabled soul. I developed a 12-day migraine, I got really sick - I think my body was telling me that it was time to speak up. Inside, I needed to scream.

The poem came alive on a whim, in a moment of release. It was my way to express the pain, my way to scream, quietly, without bothering anyone, the way we're all expected to be.

It's only nine lines long, but it found a home in the tiny wren literature magazine. From day one I was checking whether the editors had responded to my submission because the magazine spoke to me so much. I don't normally do this!  I especially loved the poignancy of their "tiny poems" - things are said so perfectly and powerfully! Somehow I just knew that I had found my tribe deep within the works that were published.

Thank you tiny wren magazine!!

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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