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Fantasy Publishers 2016 (No Agent Required!)
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
It’s a girl thing, you wouldn’t understand.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Alice Walker – Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Alice Walker, Blicke vom Tigerrücken, Gedichte English-Deutsch, Rowohlt, 1995, page 24
Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts
Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.
Never offer your heart
to a heart gravy lover.
Your stewed, overseasoned
heart consumed
he will sop up your grief
with bread
and send it shuttling
from side to side
in his mouth
like bubblegum.
If you find yourself
in love
with a person
who eats hearts
these things
you must do:
Freeze your heart
immediately.
Let him – next time
he examines your chest –
find your heart cold
flinty and unappetizing.
Refrain from kissing
lest he in revenge
dampen the spark
in your soul.
Now,
sail away to Africa
where holy women
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Gone, but not Forgotten
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daily Post, daily prompt on December 5, 2014| 2 Comments »
There are no words. There is no explanation.
I went with my mom on a boat to Boston
To visit our friends. It is on a big island.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Gone, But Not Forgotten.”
The Cancer Magnet
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
My friends are intelligent and articulate. And, I fear, shouting into a storm.
don’t let the red shirt fool you
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Once again, you get it right.
Dreamy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aber Falls, Daily Post, daily prompt, photography, Solitude, Wales on October 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
In Aber Falls, North Wales Dreams and fantasies
A TEMPEST OF WORDS
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Kate Tempest, what an appropriate name for a lover of Shakespeare. And like the great man her words are exuberant, rhythmic and hypnotic. Kate is one of a new, emerging generation of poets whose works are meant to be spoken aloud with a rapper`s machine gun delivery. Again, it`s deceptively simple, but amazingly hard to pull off unless you are at the peak of your game. Inventive, fast and immediate, it`s in your face genius which hits home fast and hard. Wonderful stuff.
Tempo Rubato – VK
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized, Writing on July 4, 2014| 1 Comment »
I have another idea for a response to this daily post, and if I have time today I will get back to write it. But the instrument response also put me in mind of this piece I wrote, sometime in 2011.
Tempo Rubato
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The sun dripped spots across my skin,
far-flung freckles in browns,
perfect pencil-tipped rounded map.
With fingertips, teneramente,
you trace them into outlines.
This shape, looped up and back around;
It is a treble clef, and this other-
up, across, back down –
whole note quavers.
Tremolo.
We wait, each year, for a few days
of gilded sunlight and whispered song.
This is how a decade passes;
moments bound in rosewood boxes,
no strings attached to frets,
no chords for strumming.
Still we anticipate the sun’s return
for months we measure,
count time in beats,
so we can sing.
copyright Victoria Kelsey
DP: Picky tongues
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bitter, daily prompt, DP on June 30, 2014| 5 Comments »
The daily prompt:You have to choose one flavor that your sense of taste will no longer be able to distinguish. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami, spicy (not a taste per se, but we’re generous): which one do you choose to lose?
Bitter. I would like to give up bitter, please.
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