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  • Meditating Ophelia

    “ There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.”… Ophelia did not just dislike the others. She despised them. Everyday the ...

    6 min read
  • Is this not love?

    Love is the spring that never runs dry, Even when it's burning. Love is the only truthful lie: The one secret worth learning. Love is a phoenix reborn from its ...

    1 min read
  • Unwiling to Understand

    Black sailed tears are held at bay, By armies of smiles during the day; But by night they sneak across the rocks, Balmly accosting to suddenly abandoned docks. Like the ...

    1 min read
  • Heliotropes

    Were my eyes sunflowers of gold: Your face would be the the sun they wish to behold. When your light shines through the tears I cannot withhold, Watch the upside ...

    1 min read
  • My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    He is proud, arrogant, stubborn and tall. My lord's armour is of leather, his visor of plastic, When he speaks of me he is not lyrical but sarcastic; And he ...

    1 min read
  • BOREDOM

    By clear skies liberty flies Or else desire slowly dies Random letters and numbers Errors and questions and slumbers Day by day anxiety sighs unlearning Order While for knowledge yearning ...

    1 min read
  • Things she Learnt to Lie about [needs help please review]

    Lyra looked out of the window, slowly tracing the words engraved on the panel of the windowsill, under a cushion, "Lyra doesn't lie". The day was grey and dreary, nothing ...

    3 min read
  • Ælëd

    Ælëd the Foolish of the Téïne Anåil. This story started as many do at midnight on a night of full moon. Ælëd was restless. She could not go to sleep. ...

    5 min read
  • Fragments

    She walked furtively along the road; her blonde hair glowing softly and her stiletto heals making a resolute clac clac on the pavement. She was very pretty and seemed to ...

    5 min read
  • Death is liken to an enamoured rose

    I.Facing death brings out the best and worst in men.Some choose to fight, they choose to live forever.Others choose despair, fear and anger; they choose nightless sleeps of psychic agony, ...

    1 min read
  • My carefull, claustral heart

    Cold hearted, cold.Sad and lonely.Wishing, wishing,But not daring enough.Wanting, wanting,But not daring...Yearning, yearning,But not...Pining, pining,But...Like the smell of the woods,the pale colour

    1 min read
  • One Night With You

    We met one night,in the dark, the fear,We exchanged smiles,I held my glass up to you,played with my hair, crossed my legs, flirted like crazy.We drank together one night,with happiness, ...

    1 min read
  • Oxford on a Sunday

    The sun shines brightthe birds sing softlyNothing movesExcept for the wind brushing its fingers through the fabric of the world.The lawn is green and freshly mown, perfect.Oxford's golden stones shine

    2 min read
  • The idea of Me

    Have you ever wanted to ask what I dream of, when I gaze out of the window for hours on end, eyes wide in wonder?DO you think you know me?Do ...

    3 min read
  • Darling, it's your name

    This tells you who you areWill you bear it in Pride or in Shame,Badge or Label, Red Cross or Yellow Star?Darling, it’s your as I sew it onto your clothes ...

    1 min read
  • Moment

    In the crossed-line of melancholy,One sits and waits patiently,Smiling at chaosPraying to loss.One feels clumsyIn this incomprehensible intensity,A fleeting look, a laughWhile every feeling is split i

    1 min read
  • the Girl with the Rainbow smile

    She is the girl with the rainbow smile,And as she lies,Inside she dies,And when she cries,She sais bye-byes.She is the girl with the rainbow smile,For when the sun shines through ...

    1 min read


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— Neil Gaiman