20:140 Station of one-way systems, trapped to walk the paths over and over, and still miss your end destination.
Tag Archives: creative writing
Poem idea
20:139 At night with a lamp on the page I feel the world is gone, empty, dark, nothing beyond this light and paper. Will I miss it? Will it miss me? The cold and emptiness surrounds all, waiting, waiting…
Poem idea
20:138 Seeped like a teabag, your energy leaking out, spilling into a cup of flavour and reviving someone who is not you.
Welcome
Welcome to my blog: Scribbled thoughts. I started it to get back into the rhythm of writing after a long hiatus. Feel free to look around, there’s poems, poetry reading videos, novel drafts, anime script drafts, short stories and writing prompts. I also include research of areas that interest me, like poetry and fairy talesContinue reading “Welcome”
Creative Writing Editing
Creative Writing Editing | Facebook For anyone interested in getting free editing services, I am willing to edit people’s work to gain more experience and some feedback/reviews. All work will be done for free until I gain some more experience. Please visit the page or message me if interested.
Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
This poetry collection really affected me, and I found it hard to read. It’s so raw and open that at times I had to stop and run away from it. As someone who has been happily married for two years, reading about someone divorcing after twenty years of marriage scared and upset me. Her confusion,Continue reading “Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds”
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
In some ways I really liked this book, and in others I really struggled with it. I loved the poem, but found Kinbote a very irritating character in the foreword and commentary. Despite that I was intrigued by his identity, and whether he was the king. Personally part of me wants to think he is,Continue reading “Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov”
Dart/Memorial by Alice Oswald
I found it hard at first to get into Dart, but then I stopped and went back to read the acknowledgement at the front. It explained the indications in the margins are to show the change in voice. Knowing this, I understood the poem better and started to enjoy it. Hearing the different point ofContinue reading “Dart/Memorial by Alice Oswald”
Complicity by Iain Banks
This book isn’t usually the genre type I read, a crime thriller, but I have to admit I was gripped all the way through. Cameron is an intriguing character. Even if he isn’t very likeable he is recognizable and even relatable. The murderer’s scenes written in second person are really gripping and disturbing. IContinue reading “Complicity by Iain Banks”
Poem idea
20:135 Exhaustion so deep it bypasses bones and penetrates the core, the everything. A disease worse than death, a pain you can’t even feel as it buried into your being and slowly consumes you.
Scribbled Thoughts 