January 2012
2 posts
walk
December 2011
2 posts
instructions
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before
Say “please” before you open the latch,
go through,
walk down the path.
A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted front door,
as a knocker,
do not touch it; it will bite your fingers.
Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat nothing.
However,
if any creature tells you that it hungers,feed it.
If it tells you that it is dirty,
clean it.
If...
the fairy reel
If I were young as once I was, and dreams and death more distant then,
I wouldn’t split my soul in two, and keep half in the world of men,
So half of me would stay at home, and strive for Fäerie in vain,
While all the while my soul would stroll up narrow path, down crooked lane,
And there would meet a fairy lass and smile and bow with kisses three,
She’d pluck wild eagles from the air and...
October 2011
1 post
she's not drowning
September 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction...”
– Jeanette Winterson
January 2011
2 posts
and he said, the two coldest places on earth are...
and your heart
In Wonderland
How I’d love to grow so small That the grass would seem quite tall, And the meadow - brooklets sound Like great torrents underground!
Then I’d hasten to explore Places no one found before; Through a stranger jungle hie, Where undreamed adventures lie.
Lovely creatures, voiceless things, There would shake their speckled wings, While their eyes would glow like gems Through the tangled...
November 2010
2 posts
“And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like...”
– Mark Haddon
October 2010
1 post
the walrus and the carpenter
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright— And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done— “It’s very rude of him,” she said, “To come and spoil the fun!”
The sea...
September 2010
1 post
“I’ll taste the sky and feel alive again”
August 2010
7 posts
save the words (blow my mind away) →
ghosting over
The picture taken from on board Air Force One shows smog settling down at the valley of Serra Nevada Mountains on August 17, 2010 in Nevada.
escape princess
Because your prince isn’t coming to save you this time.
comes the dawn
After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to...
falling
July 2010
20 posts
windows of my world
Into the night, Desperate and broken. The sound of a fight— Father has spoken.
We were the kings and queens of promise; We were the victims of ourselves. Maybe the children of a lesser god; Between heaven and hell— Heaven and hell.
Into your eyes, Hopeless and taken. We stole our new lives, Through blood...
Fuck
Fuck feeling inadequate. Fuck laying in bed thinking about everything you’re not doing. Fuck feeling like time is running out. Fuck self image. Fuck his perfect face. Fuck not trying hard enough. Fuck the internet. Fuck colds. Fuck being alone. Fuck loneliness. Fuck having to do it all over again tomorrow. Fuck youth. This isn’t youth. This isn’t freedom and weightlessness. Fuck not feeling young....
this left feels right
sun kissed skin yellow leaves that dance “good morning” yes, I think it will be all right after all
dreams in summer days
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
– Margaret Mitchell
do you remember when we had wings
The last time I was in a car I imagined that car was flying through the air. I felt like an eagle. I was not an eagle.
I have so many things I want to know.
What is the best way to tell somebody that in our chests are birds that will lift us up to the sky.
When was the last time the freezer was defrosted. It was so long ago she said. We went in there. I touched her back.
I can remember a...
it's not unlikely
You may be sometimes afraid of the dark. When you wake in the night, don’t get up and investigate or call the landlord or your brother. The trick is to turn over and think furiously of a new dress, a new date. Remember most imaginary intruders will leave you and your jewelry unscathed.
It’s Not Unlikely © Amanda Laughtland
and it makes me a little sad
Day I: Erla’s Waltz
Day II: Raein
Day III: Romance
Day IV: Allt var Hljott
Day V: Lost Song
Day VI: Faun
Day VII: Ljosid
Music: Ólafur Arnalds
clichés
Nothing travels faster than bad news, and this news hit me like a ton of bricks. The love of my life was riding off into the wild blue yonder. My mind froze and my brain reeled as I tried to plan the best course of action. I was between a rock and a hard place: should I rode off into the sunset after her, or go what had been drilled into me—” Twas better to have loved and lost that to...
“Poetry is just a really bad habit.”
things i wish i'd known
People have only one way to be.
Buy, don’t rent.
Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.
Don’t cover a couch with anything that isn’t more or less beige.
Don’t buy anything that is 100 per cent wool even if it seems to be very soft and not particularly itchy when you try it on in the store.
You can’t be friends with people who call after...
summer child
WatchTrichrome Blue
Music: Marcel Janssen
Video: Lois van Baarle
June 2010
22 posts
sunrise
they made decaf in the mornings pouring it into paper cups (we don’t use styrofoam around here) and sipping it outside through pursed lips as the sun rose
they talked about alicethroughthelookingglass philosophy the tower of babel and whether Karl Marx had the right idea all along and at the end of it all they said that it was best not to know too much
and they said they weren’t...
let's start over
我并不满意自己的少女时代。如果让我从头来过，我会是怎样的？我曾不止一次自问。
我会更加张扬天性；
我会勇敢表达我需要爱；我会剔除束缚做一个完完全全的自己；
我会问我想问的会看我想看的说我想说的，痛痛快快地道出困惑无望和失落。
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I...”
– Oscar Wilde
midnight terrarium
true pride
Just a few weeks ago, the west’s view of china was dominated by thuggish torch guards, hypersensitive nationalists and a repressive government. But since the earthquake in Sichuan, the immense state-led rescue effort and the outpouring of charity from the Chinese people has taken center stage. Has the country really changed that much? Not really. The two phenomena on display — nationalism...
between here and gone
Tonight the moon came up, it was nearly full Way down here on earth, I could feel it’s pull The weight of gravity or just the lure of life Made me want to leave my only home tonight Now I’m just wonderin’ how we know where we belong Is it in a photograph or a dashboard poet’s song? Will I have missed my chance to right some ancient wrong Should I find myself between here...
testing waters
poetry for the moment
raindrop haiku
on maple leaves glittering raindrops gather— floating worlds
a chinese short poem
I drink the silence of the crescent moon in a river of words
butterfly haiku
butterflies wing over cherry petals— shadows embracing
remembrance of things past
shades of memories fly about, collide, and land I pick them up and put them to rest on the page
peace
a dove opens its wings while...
“Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared.
Why are you so scared?
Stop...”
these lanterns carry my heart
During the Lantern Floating Ceremony in Hawaii, the beach is lined with thousands of people from all over the world with lanterns ready to be set afloat with the names of, and words written to their loved ones who have passed on.