"I was always holding onto people and they were always leaving."
~Lili St. Crow
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Quote #281
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
~John Green
~John Green
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Quote #280
"It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so that you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength."
~Patrick Ness
~Patrick Ness
Quote #279
"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."
~Ashly Lorenzana
~Ashly Lorenzana
Quote #278
"Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens-for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he'd eventually leave. I knew we couldn't be together, but I fell anyway."
~Suzanne Selfors
~Suzanne Selfors
Quote #277
"Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually "give up" and loose interest in the worth of fighting any longer."
~Osjusn CC
~Osjusn CC
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Windy Town (And Analyze)
Quick introduction to what I am about to do, I have written a poem, which I will now share with you, and then decode. Follow along, now, kiddies, cause this is the only post I'm making. If you don't like poetry, scram, or else you're going to have to endure mine. I will skip a few spaces before I go into the analyze encase you want to take the poem and interpret it yourself. I just know that sometimes I like to know what went on in the author's head when they wrote it, not just how I took it.
Down on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl sat down,
And down on the bench on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl spread out her tattered gown,
And a crow hopped up and crouched down low,
Leaving the girl to exclaim, “why hello!”,
But another crow came with yet another in tow,
Till a murder of crows crowded the girl’s dim glow,
She was swatting them away,
When the first crow cawed, “human, you should play!”,
So the girl stilled her lavish display,
And waited for the game to pass underway,
The birds kept pecking and flapping all day,
Until with a final shriek the girl thrust out of the fray.
And raced off towards the shores of the Windy Bay,
With the streets of Windy Town laughing all the way,
Kicking off her broken heels,
The girl dove into a bay of eels,
And the eels dragged her down to the depths for their meals,
Then from above she heard a distorted, “girl, drag your heels!”
So the girl kicked up with her dress now a rag,
And the girl coughed the water onto the shore with a final gag,
Out of the bay rose a figure as mighty as a stag,
Yet her dress from the water the girl couldn’t drag,
And the wicked eel did the figure embody,
With carved, sweet features as he turned the ground foggy,
Raising a knife he knelt down still a somebody,
And carefully cut the dress from her body,
Now the girl sat up,
Finally not the least bit corrupt,
With no lingering urges to give up,
And now she recognized the stranger close up,
The girl held out her hand to her lost love,
For a stranger thing the girl had never heard of,
And the crows squawked feverishly from above,
As from his pocket the boy drew a dove,
He set it out high,
High to the sky,
And the streets of Windy Town flew on by,
Until the girl sat alone and watched eagles pass on by,
But the girl dismissed her sadness,
She replaced it with gladness,
For her boy had once again helped her escape her madness.
Starting now, guys, so back off if you don't want to hear me break it down and ruin the mystery!
So, as you may notice, there is a lot of symbolism here. Windy Town, Windy Bay, the girl's tattered gown, the crows, the boy, the eels, the dove, the eagles. I'm gonna share all those with you.
Windy Town represents the state of mind the girl is in, depression and despair and hopelessness and turmoil. 'Windy' I chose because of her turmoil of emotions, like windy storms. And 'town' to represent where she was at, as in her state of mind.
Windy Bay is a place that represents deception. It is what she thinks is her savior, but it falls through and just drags her deeper and deeper into her pit of despair. 'Windy' to connect it to Windy Town and that's reasoning (see above). 'Bay' because she thinks that the water will hold safety and liberation, but it does not. I associate water with safety and liberation.
The girl's dress is to represent shattered dreams that get broken more and more as time goes on, and hold her down, see 'yet her dress from the water the girl couldn't drag', as in she could not get out of that mindset and misery.
The crows are to mean all the insults and people and cruelty that put her into the hole of misery she is in. They come under the deception of good and peace and friendliness, see 'human, you should play!', but when the girl opens up, they attack her and belittle her.
The eels are what keep pushing her down and holding her there. They are the people and comments and pain that do not allow her to get out of her pit.
The boy is a savior, a liberator for the girl. He represents the people the girl has lost, and her memory that they would have wanted her to fight, and how much she loves them. See, 'then from above she heard a distorted, "girl drag your heels!", he encourages her to fight out of her haze and away from the 'eels'. He also represents a new being in her life, someone that comes and helps her from the pit, see, 'and carefully cut the dress from her body'. That line symbolizes the boy (the newcomer and savior) helping her to release her broken dreams that set her there in the first place. It shows him helping her and liberating her.
The dove the boy releases is the cleansing the liberator brings to the girl. The crows (the insulters and tormentors) fear it, (the peace) and they are scared off and leave the girl alone.
Eagles represent freedom, the freedom the girl feels after her liberator has left, even though she is sad, she is grateful and happy because she is free of her burden and pain, he has delivered her from Windy Town (if you were able to note the change in setting).
This ultimately a poem about hope, and not giving up. I felt the need to write it, because I'm going through a tough spot, have been for a long time, and I needed the poetry to express what I hoped for.
It's called a narrative poem, and they're really nice to write. (I recommend The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it's a classic narrative and far better than my own)
Down on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl sat down,
And down on the bench on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl spread out her tattered gown,
And a crow hopped up and crouched down low,
Leaving the girl to exclaim, “why hello!”,
But another crow came with yet another in tow,
Till a murder of crows crowded the girl’s dim glow,
She was swatting them away,
When the first crow cawed, “human, you should play!”,
So the girl stilled her lavish display,
And waited for the game to pass underway,
The birds kept pecking and flapping all day,
Until with a final shriek the girl thrust out of the fray.
And raced off towards the shores of the Windy Bay,
With the streets of Windy Town laughing all the way,
Kicking off her broken heels,
The girl dove into a bay of eels,
And the eels dragged her down to the depths for their meals,
Then from above she heard a distorted, “girl, drag your heels!”
So the girl kicked up with her dress now a rag,
And the girl coughed the water onto the shore with a final gag,
Out of the bay rose a figure as mighty as a stag,
Yet her dress from the water the girl couldn’t drag,
And the wicked eel did the figure embody,
With carved, sweet features as he turned the ground foggy,
Raising a knife he knelt down still a somebody,
And carefully cut the dress from her body,
Now the girl sat up,
Finally not the least bit corrupt,
With no lingering urges to give up,
And now she recognized the stranger close up,
The girl held out her hand to her lost love,
For a stranger thing the girl had never heard of,
And the crows squawked feverishly from above,
As from his pocket the boy drew a dove,
He set it out high,
High to the sky,
And the streets of Windy Town flew on by,
Until the girl sat alone and watched eagles pass on by,
But the girl dismissed her sadness,
She replaced it with gladness,
For her boy had once again helped her escape her madness.
Starting now, guys, so back off if you don't want to hear me break it down and ruin the mystery!
So, as you may notice, there is a lot of symbolism here. Windy Town, Windy Bay, the girl's tattered gown, the crows, the boy, the eels, the dove, the eagles. I'm gonna share all those with you.
Windy Town represents the state of mind the girl is in, depression and despair and hopelessness and turmoil. 'Windy' I chose because of her turmoil of emotions, like windy storms. And 'town' to represent where she was at, as in her state of mind.
Windy Bay is a place that represents deception. It is what she thinks is her savior, but it falls through and just drags her deeper and deeper into her pit of despair. 'Windy' to connect it to Windy Town and that's reasoning (see above). 'Bay' because she thinks that the water will hold safety and liberation, but it does not. I associate water with safety and liberation.
The girl's dress is to represent shattered dreams that get broken more and more as time goes on, and hold her down, see 'yet her dress from the water the girl couldn't drag', as in she could not get out of that mindset and misery.
The crows are to mean all the insults and people and cruelty that put her into the hole of misery she is in. They come under the deception of good and peace and friendliness, see 'human, you should play!', but when the girl opens up, they attack her and belittle her.
The eels are what keep pushing her down and holding her there. They are the people and comments and pain that do not allow her to get out of her pit.
The boy is a savior, a liberator for the girl. He represents the people the girl has lost, and her memory that they would have wanted her to fight, and how much she loves them. See, 'then from above she heard a distorted, "girl drag your heels!", he encourages her to fight out of her haze and away from the 'eels'. He also represents a new being in her life, someone that comes and helps her from the pit, see, 'and carefully cut the dress from her body'. That line symbolizes the boy (the newcomer and savior) helping her to release her broken dreams that set her there in the first place. It shows him helping her and liberating her.
The dove the boy releases is the cleansing the liberator brings to the girl. The crows (the insulters and tormentors) fear it, (the peace) and they are scared off and leave the girl alone.
Eagles represent freedom, the freedom the girl feels after her liberator has left, even though she is sad, she is grateful and happy because she is free of her burden and pain, he has delivered her from Windy Town (if you were able to note the change in setting).
This ultimately a poem about hope, and not giving up. I felt the need to write it, because I'm going through a tough spot, have been for a long time, and I needed the poetry to express what I hoped for.
It's called a narrative poem, and they're really nice to write. (I recommend The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it's a classic narrative and far better than my own)
Quote #276
"My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping."
~Richelle E Goodrich
~Richelle E Goodrich
Friday, November 22, 2013
Quote #274
"I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well."
~Julie Metz
~Julie Metz
Quote #270
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
~Chuck Palahniuk
~Chuck Palahniuk
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Quote #269
"Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #267
"You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Quote #265
"It does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #264
"The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Quote #263
"One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little carved-out sphere-is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. One day you have parents; the next you're an orphan. One day you have a place and a path. The next day you're lost in the wilderness. And still the sun rises and clouds mass and drift and people shop for groceries and toilets flush and blinds go up and down. That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Quote #261
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
~Micheal Levine
~Micheal Levine
Quote #259
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, so that we make record our emptiness."
~Kahlil Gibran
~Kahlil Gibran
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Quote #256
"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
~Langston Hughes
Quote #253
"But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn't want to ignore."
~Candace Knoebel
~Candace Knoebel
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