| *sigh* |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|12:56 am] |
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So tonight I didn't get any homework done but somehow I end up writing a 2,500 word one-shot, in addition to the fic I'm already working on. I guess we all know where my priorities lie. Now if only essays were this easy to write. |
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| Omegle Adventures |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|12:54 pm] |
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Dear Random Stranger:
You made my day by allowing me to do this
You: Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three ere the other side he see
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Stranger: african or european?
You: I don't know thaaa
You have disconnected. |
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| Blackbird |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|12:58 am] |
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What would it take
To feel the music
As much as she does?
Sitting in the dark,
A cool glass
The only anchor
Holding me back
I close my eyes
Let the song roll over me,
Through me
It's not enough.
She sings
Like there's nothing else left
In the world
Just her voice
And the melody
An angel with broken dreams
Broken wings
Broken heart
Just a song to let her soar. |
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| In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|09:11 am] |
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
- John McCrae |
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| Lest We Forget |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|01:09 pm] |
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| | A Pittance of Time | ] |
Tomorrow, the 11th of November, please take two minutes and observe the silence to honour our veterans. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|11:56 pm] |
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There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in
-Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"
At first it breaks
The sting running unevenly
From end to jagged end
The crack that appears
pulling everything down
At first it scars
The pristine surface ruined
Becoming more perfect in imperfection
A welcome sign that nothing
Is ever forever
At first glance
It is blackness
A dense entity of absolutes
But then
In the moments of breaking,
stinging,
perfect imperfection
a light
like the first birth of stars
when man reached up his hand to name his world
a light
There is and always will be
a crack, a crack in everything
but understand, though it is so hard
that this is how the light gets in |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|09:26 pm] |
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Lewis Carrol
At the first sign of difficulty,
roadblock
I
Withdraw
Falling into myself
Through the looking glass of my own soul
So distorted by carnival mirrors,
Stained glass,
concave and convex:
I grow dizzy
By simply opening
My eyes
My world spins and yours holds steady
I can see your hand,
Reach for it,
Ready to fall
What is reality?
She asked me
Who am I to answer?
I became the White Rabbit
And my clock is winding down
Alice, I think. . .
I think I'm falling
Can't you guide my way?
I seek the mock turtle
The walrus shares his wisdom
And the playing cards look on
But I have already played my hand
No metamorphoses for this caterpillar
Butterfly winds turn to gossamer shreds
In the lightest breeze
At the first sign of trouble
I
Retreat
Into my looking glass world
"We are all mad here"
I can't reach your hand |
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| Il Pleut |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|12:45 am] |
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It's raining. Again.
Il pleut
et je pense à toi
la dernière fois que je t'ai vue
tes larmes comme la pluie
brillaient sur tes joues
J'ai vue la réflection de la lune
dans tes yeux
Maintenant les gouttes sont froids
ils me parlent d'automne, d'octobre
de possibilités qui existaient, mais n'éxistent plus
Il est tard
et je m'endorme à mon bureau
Mais je pense à toi
et je cherche encore la réflection
de la lune dans une flac d'eau
Je pense à tes yeux
j'entends la pluie
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| The blahs |
[Oct. 13th, 2009|10:52 pm] |
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I have been feeling incredibly unmotivated lately. And I mean absolutely unmotivated. I can barely get myself to go to class, and I never skip. I feel like I should post, but I can't get myself to write anything. It's really bad since I have an essay due that I have barely looked at. So, to try and get myself going, I thought I would post something older. This is a poem/story thing that I wrote about two years ago. Unedited.
Sunday Morning
She made me breakfast
eggs, lacy whites, soft
and the yolks staring up at me
like twin yellow moons
the kind you only see
mid-October when the air
is so crisp it has a taste
a taste like her kiss
at the corner of my mouth
She made me breakfast
even though she hates mornings
isn't awake until after the second
cup of coffee, strong and dark
one cream, no sugar
She's not yet said those three
words, the ones tossed away lightly
or given far too much weight
dropping to the bottom of the stomach
but she made me breakfast
and that's enough.
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 3rd, 2009|03:53 pm] |
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There's nothing like the smell of clean laundry to bring back childhood memories. I just wish I didn't have to fold it all. ;) |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 24th, 2009|12:21 am] |
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Have you ever missed someone so much that it physically aches, and then hurts more when you know that you really shouldn't feel that way because you know you'll only be burned again? |
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| Quoting inspiration |
[Sep. 20th, 2009|12:29 am] |
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"It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone who used to love you." That's a quote I read from a fanfic author on one of the communities I frequent. I cannot for the life of me remember who wrote though, but I am more than happy to give credit where credit is due. I've just been thinking about that line over and over again recently. For some reason it resonates with me, maybe for the same reason I've been obsessing over "the Girl and the Ghost." Who knows? Let's see what comes out of this, shall we? All free written. I only went over it to bold the lines from the quote. I think I'll leave it and edit it later, if at all.
Just a second too late, or too soon.
It's
A glance not returned until
Maybe weeks, months, a year? . . .Later
It's the
Feeling of a door slammed shut. One you pushed yourself
The breeze of Mercury's winged feet
Closing the gap
It's the saddest
Music. Hearing it echo and die
the band has disbanded
Instruments lie piled in the corner. So many unused husks,
notes unplayed dimming into dust
On tarnished brass.
It's the saddest thing
To witness it. it is to feel helpless.
The undertow is relentless.
And is it some sort of karma, redemption.
Whose dogma, whose religion does it ascribe to?
Or to none at all.
Gods can be this cruel
It's the saddest thing in
Hope that dies out when cinders are all that's left.
Embers will not reawaken.
Look into the mirror of the mind
See the scar tissue has healed and will not risk reinjury
No new additions to an already impressive collection
Collecting second chances holds no interest
gathers nothing for the future.
It's the saddest thing in the
Way of blinking, tilt of the head
Betrays
What if it is so brutally honest
Obvious to even the oblivious
A continuous carousel and the melody is nauseating
It never changes
Only trades places
Again.
It's the saddest thing in the world
The sight of a happy smile
Not brought by you but someone new
the scuffed and well worn shoes
filled by another
and another
and another
you had your chance, it seems
Wasted, maybe, gone.
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving
It's the most painful, too.
Cliche though it sounds
Though it is
Sometimes cliches exist for a reason
When you hurt too much to make up your own expression
Self-expression of doubt, anger, betrayal
All of your own doing.
No use being used
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone
Whose face reflects an unreal joy
unreal to you, perhaps
She's glowing.
Artemis in full regalia
bow curved against the night sky
Apollo has no comparison
Stars have always held more fascination
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone who
Shadows every step, every breath
Sharp and catching in your chest
No doctor's medication will stem
The pain from the trainwreck
the screeching metal
Heavy
Unresponsive
Won't crack under the pressure
Or maybe already has
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone who used
You like you were nothing.
At least it felt so at the time.
You couldn't see grey from shade of grey
Blinded by the flashing lights
Razzle dazzle disco
It's always shone brightest in your eyes
The audience taking the final bow
Instead of the chorus line
It's the saddest thing in the world loving someone who used to
Hold hands with you in the playground
Whisper secrets
Bury treasure in the back yard
Kiss away the pain from skinned knees
Palms raw
From falling too hard and too fast
But never in the right direction
Forwards
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone who used to love
Sharing her music
Her thoughts, dreams
Even fears.
Greatest one: losing
Control, feeling. . .you
What happened did
What didn't did not
Nothing changes now
The serpent swallowed his tail
And the mouse has run up the clock.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Too late.
It's the saddest thing in the world, loving someone who used to love you
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| Acoustic Extravaganza |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|11:57 pm] |
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| | The song in my head | ] |
I've been listening to a lot of KT Tunstall lately, and I absolutely love her song "The Girl and the Ghost". There's just something about it that I can't describe that pulls me in every time. So, I figured I might as well use it as a springboard into a short free write.
Am I the Ghost
Or am I the Girl
Sitting in the corner
Waiting
In the moment our fingers touch
Join, and pass through
What can be read in the press of palm to palm
Before ethereality disconnects the fibres of our souls
Being flesh I feel I am more ghostly
Than a being of spirit
I look to you, through you
My own future, and I see
What? What is there to see?
A ghost, a girl,
a corridor
Lengthening into forever
We know each other, like other people do
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| I has a radio |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|03:51 pm] |
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Why is "Radio Canada" so awesome? English CBC, you gotta catch up, man.
That is all. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 23rd, 2009|11:46 pm] |
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I haven't posted in forever! Wow. Not that I really have much to say. I haven't written in a long while either. That's something I really need to work on, I think.
Circle line
Ghosts on the Metro
Ghosts on the Underground
Ghosts in my head
The plexiglass distorts as it reflects
Pixellated spirits of people I have never met
Empty shadows cast against cold underground mazes
Empty shells, until a backwards glance reveals
This solid object
Origin of reflection
Lives a life I'll never know
Never feel, laugh, run, cry
As these Underground ghosts do
Breaching the surface
Drawing in a human breath once again
A flash of recognition of another wandering soul
My mirror image in the scratched and faded pane
I am a ghost to them
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|09:52 pm] |
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Leave for last
it won't take long
each drawn out breath an
instant eternity
leave for last
here and gone
the knowledge solid and
weighing you down
leave for last
just leave |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 17th, 2008|07:00 am] |
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Brick Wall
I've hit brick wall solid
no space to turn arou
nd too high to climb u
p to thick to fight throu
g no gate no lock to pi
ck brick wall solid imp
enatrable brick wall of
frustration regret no to
morrow needs done n
ow brick wall stands a
nd laughs mortar ston
es at human desperat
ion and silly old failure
well, it was supposed to be a full block of text but I am full of fail and can't figure out how to align it properly |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|09:34 pm] |
Language
tongue teeth lips sound
syllable\echoes in dark
spaces
filling filing falling fleeing
vibration vocal
chords
making
sense non sense nonsense
language
lost |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 27th, 2007|11:42 pm] |
Rien n'a changé
Illusions toujours
L'amour se cache encore
Je n'ai plus de force pour chasser
L'invisible, L'impossible
Mes rêves
Et je ne t'aime plus
qui suis-je maintenant
Sans toi? |
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| Dream Quilt |
[Apr. 20th, 2007|11:13 pm] |
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The world sleeps
And I sleep too
Piecing a dreamscape
From fat-quarter memories
Darks of a thunderstorm
Lights of golden hair
Sandwich the clouds and bind
With lullabies
Needle of moonlight
Threaded with night breeze
Piecing a dreamscape
Those fat-quarter memories
Blanket the night
And the world sleeps
I sleep too
Under my dream quilted skies |
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