a tree, a swing and a notebook.

whenever i feel the need to write, i go to the one place where i can be safe. where all my secrets are hidden under the roots, and my burdens are held steady by two pieces of rope wrapped around a branch, and a flat piece of driftwood. a place where no-one can touch me. it happens to be a real place, yet as time is always limited i only visit there once a year. as the imagination has no limits, i can go there whenever i choose to. all i need is my tree, my swing and my notebook. oh, and a pen.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

night walk.

flicker and burn
my sight, etched
with image and blur
that endless tune
an echoing dirge
hands grasp that
bulky switch -
i am
reluctant
the bright noise, ended
draws the darkness near
heavy silence feasting
as doubts crawl ever closer
merciless, their webbed limbs
claw the weeping air
and the lonely owl ascends
up and up
those creaking stairs
to another restless night, it sends
a message to her dizzy friends
don’t leave me.

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Favourite Quotes:

"Books are like mirrors - you only see in them what's already inside of you." Julian Carax - The Shadow Of The Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

"Between my finger, and my thumb.
My squat pen rests; snug as a gun."
Seamus Heaney

"Over the page, the pen runs faster than wind's white steps over grass." Gillian Clarke

"If you get between me and the things I love, I will ask you politely to move. If you get between me and the people I love, you will move." I Wrote This For You, Blog.

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control and sometimes hard to handle. But if you can't deal with me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." Marilyn Monroe.

"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy captialism and become lesbians." Pat Robertson. (not sure if Pat's a woman or a man, but that quote made me laugh for days. had to be shared.)

"You're beautiful," replied the fly. To the spider.' I Wrote This For You, Blog.