Sunflower Seeds
Liana E.
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It is about my grandfather who is from Soviet Ukraine. My mom's side of the family is Ukrainian and they have a lot of trauma from the soviet years. Recently I was goofing off and I managed to make my grandpa laugh, it was so special to me that I used it as a prompt for my poem. For context, sunflowers are the Ukrainian flower, and the Russian word I included (not Ukrainian because of the soviet union) means "friend". My grandpa and I used to call each other that and it's always been a very special word to me, even though it's just a basic way to call someone your friend. My grandparents found the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 especially hard to deal with, and that is what I was alluding to in the line talking about the news. I hope you enjoy my writing, thank you for your time!
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Creativity to me is taking your own surroundings and, no matter the environment, making it into art. Creativity can come in many forms and it doesn't have to be beautiful, often what really is impactful is something different and strange put in different perspectives, in ways you haven't seen before
