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"Stunned, transformed, completely vegetarian for my fifteen minutes of guilt, you had me close to tears for the love of a cow!

Brilliant use of your poetic licence as usual Dave. Keep that brain of yours well oiled and chugging!

Liz"

I was reading the Interchapter for next week last night and I was really struck by not only the brilliance of Emerson's journal excerpts but also how modern his thinking actually was.

His entry for the 21st of May, 1834, reads:

"I will trust my instincts. For always a reason halts after an instinct, and when I have deviated from the instinct, comes ( Read more... )

© Elizabeth Karas

Well, that's all I really have at the moment. It's a bit long, but I was inspired for once so I rose to the challenge. I was quite surprised to be honest how easily this story came from me, it was all there in my mind waiting for me to unlock it and share. For those of you who made it to the bottom of this entry, thank you for ( Read more... )

This week, I was struck down with some inspiration while on the bus of all places to and from my university lectures. I scribbled a few notes down in my CPB while they were fresh in my head, and in the style of Joy Harjo and Joseph Jourbert, I have gone back over my notes and reviewed my ideas.

In the centre of things

A man sat smoking outside his ( Read more... )

This is my creative text (poem) written during class in response to the painting "Home from Sea" by Arthur Hughes (1862):

Sadness and excitement were competing
in his sailor's heart.
His first, the journey seemed over so quickly
as he reflected upon its start.

Six months at sea; an impossible time away.
His mother wept and held him
while his feet ( Read more... )

This is my comment for week three, found here:

http://bloodnut11.livejournal.com/1968.html

I think the first stanza wasn't bad at all, compared to what you are saying about it anyway. This particularly:

the lungs of a man,
who is thrice my years,
tar, so full and thick,

It really does create an image and implies a relationship already which is fantastic ( Read more... )

The following text is my creative response to a daydream I had recently; enjoy.

I’m having that dream again. The one where I’m hurtling out of a window of the thirty seventh floor and flinging myself clear of the building that was disintegrating around me only seconds before. I can hear the screams of the people being sucked in and down, forever ( Read more... )