June 2012
May 2012
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via beautilation)
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Sprinkled Brown
ellemac23:
The candlelit eyes
sprinkled to me
in a shimmering sea.
A golden leaf flowing
to me from you.
The twisting roots giggling
into the essence of a greater life.
Your hand outreached.
long and stretching.
Coming to tickle me.
To stream across me
as the wind does to the sparkling sand.
I searched for your assurance
as a shy, romantic pleaser.
All the leaf wants is a tree...
9 tags
Unforgivable Differences
ellemac23:
I subtracted myself from you,
into somewhere meant for only some
The overlapping ledges
shifted and drifted
among the shivering fish.
Deep in the ledges
through a tunnel
through a whirlpool
I come upon some half lit arena.
Creatures congested and stiff
reluctant and unsure
circle and swirl.
Looking into their eyes I could see them.
The minuscule jokesters inside...
2 tags
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear....”
– Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind (Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five)
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I...”
– Buddha (via thelovelyloner)
5 tags
Next art show!
Tomorrow night at War ‘Hous Visual Studios and it’s called Free Palestine. 50% of the earnings go towards Palestine child relief fund! Hope fully I sell something =]
“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a...”
– James Joyce (via philphys)
8 tags
The Wind in the Valley
ellemac23:
the wind takes away
what I haven’t let go.
grasping at my hands
and lobes and feet
It takes me to a valley
of neither grass nor tree.
It is an everlasting place
frozen in time
but ticking away.
The memories stay
and they fog
they never fully disappear.
I can see farther there
a person, a thing?
a man.
His eyes overwhelm his features
his lips sit...
7 tags
Got a new art website where you can buy prints and... →
April 2012
6 tags
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...”
– Terry Pratchett, Diggers. (via ruineshumaines)
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