Reem N. Alomari
The idea for Between The Stars was when I was at a Starbucks with my best-friend, who at the time was suffering from severe depression and anxiety. She was reading my poetry from my note's app on my phone. And it occurred to me that she was taking more time than it should to respond which made me a little anxious. "So?" I pushed. "Thoughts?"
Her answer was that she didn't know what she's been feeling lately, she couldn't put to words what kind of thoughts were taking up space in her mind, that is until somehow, someway my words gave her the missing perspective she was searching for.
She immediately begged me to publish my poetry. I was afraid of publishing because I didn't think I had a theme when it came to my words. To me, they were random collection of fictional scenes, thoughts and black-out poetry.
"So? Maybe your theme could be that you don't have one."
And something clicked. I remember thinking, what if I did publish a book? What if somehow my words were able to resonate with someone else out there? Even if it was just one more person.
Excitement started to bubble inside me, thoughts about what the book cover would like, the things I had to do when I got back home.
I immediately, purused through my poems and got rid of the really dark ones, kept the ones I thought were good enough and wrote some more until eventually I published over 50 poems in BTS.
Her answer was that she didn't know what she's been feeling lately, she couldn't put to words what kind of thoughts were taking up space in her mind, that is until somehow, someway my words gave her the missing perspective she was searching for.
She immediately begged me to publish my poetry. I was afraid of publishing because I didn't think I had a theme when it came to my words. To me, they were random collection of fictional scenes, thoughts and black-out poetry.
"So? Maybe your theme could be that you don't have one."
And something clicked. I remember thinking, what if I did publish a book? What if somehow my words were able to resonate with someone else out there? Even if it was just one more person.
Excitement started to bubble inside me, thoughts about what the book cover would like, the things I had to do when I got back home.
I immediately, purused through my poems and got rid of the really dark ones, kept the ones I thought were good enough and wrote some more until eventually I published over 50 poems in BTS.
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