“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”― John Banville, The Sea FleetingStunningly strongThis random memoryRed basket of toysSuffocating LingeringComfort cradleMemories of playtimeRed basket of toysHeartwarming Every now and then, I come across something – a word, an object or simply an emotion and I’m pulled into a memory I didn’t know I had. Stepping into […]
“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”― John Guare, Landscape of the Body draped in gold,dripping dreams,exciting, enticing and enthralling –a vision of timely beauty is life tomorrow. a cradle of delightful mistakeslearning, growing and finally seeingterrified and horrified but stunnedat the humanity of it all. for the world […]
“I overthink.
I overfeel.
I overlive.
I overdie.”
― Filipe Russo, Caro Jovem Adulto
The dark that doesn’t speak. The dark that doesn’t let starlight shimmer off it. The dark that drenches you in its ignorant sheen.
A shadow is all that remains – of the glory days,
Where words stayed true to themselves.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
Brilliant skyscrapers,
Mosaic paths sway to songs
Of crushed bricks and rocks,
This gleaming concrete jungle –
Spews blinding diversity.
“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
rich and sweet is the glow that
embraces these failures of the past
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”― Pablo Picasso This absent determinationWatches over time that simply refuses to haltIn the face of a starved, diminishing soul.Such creative impoverishment is thisWhere words flee and stick figures reignBreeding an utter lack of books –The kind with sweet, homely pages. Caught in […]
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