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Tag: Creativity
A short couplet.
From the moment I was discovering myself, I was uncovering somebody else. My brother for my other-mother. Two separate phrases that popped into my head. First one was on Monday 2nd Nov at 11:30pm at night. The second is a phrase that I happily chanted and felt so passionately earlier today at around 12:30pm. [...]
Move on with Moving on.
I wrote the last post exactly two months ago. Sat on a cold, dirty bedroom floor, in my love's new home. Unable to sleep all night. Unable to get over our terribly stifled late-night fight. Amy Winehouse's lyrics continually swam in my head towards the end of 'the us'. So, all that was left was [...]
Poem early morning’s prayer, pleas, wants and needs.
This came to me as I lay my head to sleep, around 3am, I've tried to keep it as close in structure as when I wrote it. I miss the sanity and free space we had, The easy negotiations. Sharing ourselves so easily it went unseen, And now we walk in phantom mists like unknowing, [...]
Mariam Kauser 