His dimpled cheeks,
carved like a candle's wick,
speak of decades;
and somewhere in the hallway
I can feel my grandfather's ghost
slip off the canvas.
You look like him
she says -
that Roman nose
off fighting wars
in places we can't pronounce
and your clipped jawline
announcing places
like long lost family.
I bet you wear a jacket like him,
shoulders crisp
as the new world
and focused like a poet
on the future.
I'll bet you even smell
like him -
leather warm and humid,
and the apple tint
of music
left on your sleeves.
i am sitting with rumpled pieces of paper and my hands stained with ink, as if blood has turned indigo, wringing your name like a paltry confession. and i feel as pathetic as you think i am, i feel as though i could walk across the ocean with salt making my lips sting and i could travel for miles just to get to you, and you would be standing on the other side with empty eyes and you're asking, "why have you come?" and, somehow, you're bigger than me, somehow, you're a giant and i'm forced to look up at you and admit i don't know.
i have lost my footing. the sky is the earth, my head is underwater and hair dancing with seaweed. i am dro
Life is just hectic.
Things are getting heated up for Putnam and we're hosting ITS again.
In writing new, I'm taking advanced creative writing this semeseter. I'm supposed to focus on a project and I'm tossing around choices:
1. A series of poems based on the deadly sins. Each sin having a section in my "book."
2. "Things I'll never tell my mother"
3. Working on The Boy Momma Hated
Any opinions or suggestions?
I've been gone for a LONG time. As a result, there's a lot of art in my inbox. Figured that I'd share. :)
Digital Art
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Photography
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Painting
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Poetry
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Drawings
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Prose
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So, that summer Write-A-Thon I participated in? I won first place in "Best Story" category. :D :D :D
And, like I promised. Features for the other winners :)
In Words Written:
1st Place: ~Xiraoffire78 (https://www.deviantart.com/xiraoffire78)'s "The Wolf And The Butterfly"
2nd Place: :iconideasRknockin:'s "Through My Eyes"
3rd Place: :iconCastleXMemoria:'s "Just One Moment"
In Best Story:
2nd Place: :iconLeah-the-Red:'s "The Hidden Ones"
3rd Place: :iconJezabelleDisreali:'s "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"
I still write, but am considering real publication, which means online publishing is out for now. I can still share with you if you're truly interested, lol