My new ebook, Mind Bending Musings: A Poetry Collection, is out for the Amazon Kindle!
Mind Bending Musings is the debut collection from American poet Ashleigh Nussbaum. In this stunning collection of poetry, Nussbaum twists reality to let the reader see the classic themes of love, heartbreak and social misanthropy in a new light. With a direct, yet endearing, approach the reader is shown a world which, is at times shocking, but all the while incredibly real and true to life.
Ashleigh Nussbaum was born in Naperville, IL in 1984. Residing in Midwest America most of her life, her true passion for poetry began with an assignment from a high school English teacher introducing her to Edna St. Vincent Millay. She has since found poetry to be a lifetime love. Among many inspirational poets are E.E. Cummings, Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, Bob Dylan and Carl Sandburg. She states, "Writing poetry is painting in the mind of the reader and expressing emotions in the reader's chest."
Sample:
Lump of Soul
The world is spinning
The wind is blowing
The stars are twinkling
The moon is glowing
What am I on such a night
But a speck of carbon
On a life-infested planet
What am I on such a night
But a single heart beating
Among 7 billion homo-sapiens
What am I on such a night
But a lump of soul
In a flesh-clad skeleton
Peering Through the Hourglass
Peering through the hourglass
I catch a glimpse of time
It stops just for a moment
Silent as a mime
Dancing rather mockingly
Around my vanquished dreams
Nostalgia creeps into my mind
And tears it at the seams
While once I was so winsome
With each passing day
Time stole my innocence
And gave my youth away
Blank Page
Blank page how I defile you
Grappling for graffiti of the mind
I mark and brand
Pee in the sand
Stamp my worthlessness
Like a seal of disapproval
Across your purity
Your absolute void
The white-washed page
Before me
Before me
Was full of minimalistic perfection
Perhaps waiting for conception
Like a virgin's erection
Needing direction
