February 2011
16 posts
feeling lost
I don’t really know where I’m going. And in a lot of situations I don’t really know where I stand. In a short while everything will change. Friendships will grow dim and the definition of words like ‘home’ and ‘future’ and ‘plans’ will change. Still, I’m- I’m not worried or sad, or even really nostalgic right now. I know I’m...
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
January 2011
26 posts
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Home Alone
Hidden from the rest of the world
The only sounds are the ones that I create
Still my presence does little to disturb the silence
Moving from room to room trying to waken these walls
It will take more than one person to rouse this place from slumber
I miss my family
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(at a loss for words)
restlessness distorts
inadequacies prevail
nothing gets written
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Today I tried again in vain to understand literary meter. I understand it in theory, the whole stressed, unstressed thing and whatever. However, I cannot, for the life of me consistently figure out if a word stressed or unstressed. More often than not I am guessing, though generally I can catch onto an iambic rhythm. Perhaps figuring out the meter is just too much stimulation for my brain, as it...
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a text conversation
Unknown number: Tessa Rae
Me: Um. Hi.
Unknown number: Do you love me?
Me: Okay sure.
Unknown number: That was quick do you even know who I am?
Me: Imma guess Eden.
Unknown number: Balls. Yeah hi.
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“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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“Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly,...”
– Nelly Dean
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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I finally finished Lost
and now, it’s time for bed.
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“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations,...”
– Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Uberville
“The truth is, nothing guaranteed… So don’t be afraid. Be alive.”
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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(-12°C)
amongst falling snow
there’s unsuspected beauty
out here in the cold
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“What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever...”
– Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
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“No culture in history has been more distracted. If you are wondering why there...”
– Donald Miller (via deeannmarie)
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“Nor I, nor any man that but man is,
With nothing shall be pleas’d till he...”
– King Richard II (Act V, Scene 5)
Shakespeare
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“I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
