Category: Words

Weight of Living

186794_9123“Weight Of Living, Pt. I” – Bastille 

There’s an albatross around your neck,
All the things you’ve said,
and the things you’ve done,
Can you carry it with no regrets,
Can you stand the person you’ve become,
Ooh there’s a light

Your Albatross, let it go, let it go,
Your Albatross shoot it down, shoot it down
When you just can’t shake
The heavy weight of living

Stepping forward out into the day
Shrugging off the dust and memory
Though it’s soaring still above your head
It is out of sight and none shall see
Oooh there’s a light

Your Albatross, let it go, let it go,
Your Albatross shoot it down, shoot it down
When you just can’t shake
The heavy weight of living
When you just can’t seem to shake
The heavy weight of Living

It’s the sun in your eyes, in your eyes

Your Albatross, let it go, let it go,
Your Albatross shoot it down, shoot it down
When you just can’t shake
The heavy weight of living
When you just can’t seem to shake
The heavy weight of Living

The Weight of Living  

Autumnal Poem

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Fall is my favorite season for many reasons, one of which is that it always inspires me to write poetry. This is the result of several drafts over the past week or so… Leaves drift like golden confetti, Their skeletons rattling across concrete— Celebrating the slow decline of summer, sun, and life. Birds gather nervously, afraid to miss their Pilgrimage towards that glowing star. The sacrifice of burning leaves on alters to the sun Stain the air with pungent, smoldering ashes. Sunlight seeps through the brave remainder Of yellowed leaves still clinging To the memory of warmth. Cornstalks crackle with…

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Inspiring Quotes

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Bronte   “Many consider the arts to be the ‘extra’ of our lives, an embellishment that is mere leisure…What many consider extra, and even wasteful, may come to define our humanity.” Makoto Fujimura     “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” Pascal     “I am not afraid they’ll stamp me flat. Grass stamped flat soon becomes a path.” Blago Dimitrova     “The silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”…

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Incongruity

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Incongruity In spring they make small splashes through the slush and hopeful puddles. In summer they slip softly over warm grass and rejoicing earth. In autumn they bump through skeletons of summer leaves and frenzied wind. In winter they leave rounded swirls in pure snow and frozen dirt. Garbage cans. – Savannah Liston

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I’m Back!

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You know the feeling, when your parents were gone, you were at home having a great time and then the front door opens and a voice calls, “I’m back!” I hope that’s not how you feel. I hope you are more excited about me coming back to my blog. If you are tired of a blogger blogging on their own blog, well, then don’t read their blog. Did you have a good Christmas? We did. It was the year of warm things for me, a blanket, new coat, slippers, etc…but it was rather ironic because on Christmas Eve when we were…

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