I have always loved writing. At the age of about 12 I wrote my first proper short stories, and I wrote what I thought to be my first (on reflection, very short!) novel when I was 13. This was also around the time that I began to write songs, and this continued throughout my teenage… Continue reading The problem with sharing…
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Poetry: what my heart has to say
8 months Some days it feels like you’ve never been gone. Closed eyes take me to yesterday and you are there your colours shining so brightly your laughter filling the room and the sound of my name called with a beaming smile filling my heart life bursting from you your energy radiant and inescapably… Continue reading Poetry: what my heart has to say
Poetry: modern culture and a story of corruption
Peaches Untouched flesh Soft and gentle and yet to be bruised, like a ripening peach. She is not weak, but she is vulnerable. The allure of the peaches they cannot escape- the creatures that come to corrupt. They sense it and quietly, slowly, they come, creep, multiply. Creeping they come to invade the… Continue reading Poetry: modern culture and a story of corruption
Poetry: a modern sonnet
Wire A budding flower choked by tensile wire The beauty of a heart’s discordant ache Dark eyes pull me to run through open fire Eternal wounds: a path I always take Your touch brings heat that scorches, stains my skin On fragile parchment, scars you gently paint Tiptoed tightrope I walk, as air… Continue reading Poetry: a modern sonnet
First Steps
Dear Reader, I have wanted to start a blog for a long time now, but have never quite found the courage to put myself out there. I am a 20 year-old English Literature and Creative writing student with a very emotional and chaotic brain. I use my writing as an outlet to process my thoughts… Continue reading First Steps
