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Aug 10, 2011, 5:47 am
Quills are made to be there
and quills are made to be broken
Dark moods swaying over the landscape
rolling in like thunder
I do my best
but it isn't much
maybe somewhere sometime a life is possible for me
time to get a grip
time to dissolve in the cur... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2011, 9:54 am
Life is just a trap waiting for you to risk yourself but once you're caught there is no way out. A viral motion sucking you into time that dissolves as if it never existed but we don't give up, ever, while it keeps raining, while the angels keep weeping and little could sooth me as if I would have f... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 5:07 am
For those who would be looking for me
I'm not there anymore
In case you are doubting:
I found something better
Or better yet someone better.
Not to judge the past
Not to judge a person
I loved what I had
at the time when I had it
But I wasn't hap... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 5:04 am
You were there when the sun shined in our faces
when the day laught us ahead
Until the dark clouds started gathering
pretending evil days weren't coming instead
But where were you when the sky started crying
when the drops of rain rolled down our faces?
You wanted... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 7:27 am
Artistic Ability and Mental Problems: Is There A Link?
Evidence has supported the claim that there is in fact a link between creativity and certain types of mental disorders for hundreds of years. The specific relationship between the two is apparent when you examine what mental disorders have... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2011, 2:52 am
He thought life was easy until he met you.
With your vicious ways, your swirling hair and your radiant smile.
All a man could want, all he could desire.
And just that touch of strange
Mad like a clown
To sway his mind
like a siren sways a ship.
But you refu... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2011, 5:42 am
I've done the math, it didn't count.
All the days and years of endless boredom. Of waiting for the next best thing, trapped inside your mind like a lifetime prison sentence. Maybe one day we'll be free, maybe one day we won't feel so oppressed. But when does that day come? Tell me ...
A... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2011, 8:48 am
7.53
Another morning ritual. Trying to fill the loose ends of time in the early morning is a task.
7.54
I've done about everything, too early to work and too late to go back to sleep.
7.55
Trying to avoid the nausea of life at all cost. My mind is a snakepit, filled wi... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Dec 30, 2010, 5:39 am
It seems like yesterday since I last wrote ... and yet it's been a while. Between work, household, love, books and music there is left so little time ... Just a word of thanks to you my readers for your time and enthousiasm. And I will return, soon!
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Nov 18, 2010, 10:11 am
You don't see the bruises ... you can't foresee the pain. It's intense, so deep and yet so volatile, in vain.
He slapped my head once more while he uttered for the millionth time the same old words again: "You're a loser and you'll never win. I hate for you to be my shadow as you put nothing ... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Nov 18, 2010, 9:55 am
Come to the Lord
and say a prayer!
Whatever your Lord is,
Believe without condition
No matter what his churches say
No matter what they do
Believe everything they say
or else you're a heretic too.
Why not leave it all behind
And choose the path... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2010, 1:35 pm
There's a surprise for you!
Why did she think I would have been pregnant? I hadn't seen her for ages, neither people she knew, so it wasn't my weight ...
She opened the door, a sigh of relief on her face, thank God she thought ... She isn't.
The surprise was we came to visit, the t... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2010, 10:48 am
Let's just rest and let the wind blow through our hair, while the mountains quake and the trees shake their leaves. Towards another destiny, a new world ... where greed is only a word without significance, hunger doesn't belong in a dictionary and money is only an archeological object.
Let's ... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Nov 15, 2010, 3:01 am
I thought I was the eternal loner,
roaming around the world,
around the boundaries of existence.
My life was a mess
upside down and turned around
nothing was for the best.
Until I met him
a loner just like me
roaming his way through life,
roa... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Oct 29, 2010, 3:48 am
All that's left
are the ruins of before
nothing but a tangible evidence
of human's urge for more.
All the rest's gone up in smoke
songs, love, hate and life
everything of value
everything of true gold.
Humans are selfish
and that will be their d... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2010, 1:23 pm
Per una volta sono stancha,
stancha di persistere
stancha di pensare a tutto che devo ancora fare
anche stancha di morire.
Ma persistero
la sola cosa che voglio
è sola un po di tempo per me stesso
per leggere, inventare, scoprire
le misteri di un pas... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Sep 17, 2010, 10:14 am
Work kills creativity
and nothing more
After two years sabbatical
the return is hard
hard like a brick
reality in your face like a brick.
But we all need money to get by ...
And that's how it works,
so for now let's swim.
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Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Aug 29, 2010, 3:20 pm
It's dangerous for me to write right now,
it always is ...
I've had a few drinks
after a tough couple of days
And as I'm used to writing my heart's desire
or rather - what bothers me
I should keep quiet ...
And for this time I will
But there is a we... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Aug 22, 2010, 10:21 am
Have you ever born a child?
No
Why not?
I fear it ...
I fear it will ruin my life.
I fear it will bring pain.
and I fear I won't be a good mother.
But it will bring pain
And I'm not ready for it.
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Aug 5, 2010, 7:09 am
Another year changed, turbulent and wild. Where the horses are born, stallions galop into the horizon to be burnt by the evening sun. A word more, a word less, does it matter when you think about the progress?
"If all else fails you can still whip the horses eye"
I'm not sure if I whipp... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2010, 3:17 pm
Let's not fall in love
just for a while
you can have everything you want after
everything you desire ...
But, just for a moment,
consider me a human being.
Talk to me, make my mind dance
and especially make me swear ...
swear until the gods bring me d... Comment - Like
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Jun 26, 2010, 3:07 am
The girl with the golden earring never knew her fate.
But all I can think of is a decent bed and sleep. The traveling has wearied me and instead of resting I'm running around all day, doing everything and nothing at all. The only consolation is my return, but that too ... is another trip of 13... Comment - Like
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Jun 19, 2010, 7:59 am
Paradise was a place
Where I never had been.
That only existed
in the mind of idolatry
in the mind of deceit.
Happiness may come a long way
it may not come at all
but my patience and perseverance
were rewarded with an oasis of joy,
you my lov... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 5:41 am
I feel defeated in advance
like energy is slowly sipping away
your blood once boiling
now calmly ... calmly flowing to the sea.
But I won't give in
I know this feeling too well
and I will beat it
till my blood boils again.
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Jun 11, 2010, 5:32 am
I'm part of the working class girls again ... but I don't want to be a hero, let alone a heroïn. Those who follow me produce their image of me themselves and I'm not responsable for what they perceive me. All I needed was hope and belief and someone gave it to me, it doesn't make her a heroïn, but... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 4:54 am
There is this book called 'To never sleep again'
It haunted me - for years I must say. An academic whose sole life purpose is to prove that comets can obtain alien micro life forms. Why did it haunt me? As the main character turns his back desillusioned and decided to give up, the narrator des... Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 4:51 am
Undestined feelings of belonging
Undestined sentiment of death
if this is my utopia
I will gladly rest
til my day of glory comes
where I know
that I have loved, hated and cried
suffocated into happiness
and risen into the pain
My day of glory co... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2010, 5:21 am
I used to believe in the good old days
The days of sorrowful eyes
where rain were angels' tears
and nobody wondered why ...
except me.
I used to ...
Now I believe in the days to come
the days of possible joy
where butterflies surround the sun
loo... Comment - Like
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May 4, 2010, 6:33 am
Let's strangle opportunity
into the dark corners of the mind
where all repressed memories roam
where joy is still a shadow
waiting to be born.
Let me roam the darkness
Not for ever, just for now
So my mind can feel at ease again
In this regulated and... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2010, 5:26 am
Relentlessly drawn downwards
as if it means nothing at all
Relentlessly drugged
as if it means nothing at all
But tomorrow
Things will be better
they don't have to
but they will
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Apr 19, 2010, 5:12 am
If you could read
in between my lines
what would they tell you?
Would you finaly grasp who I am?
Or does it still scare you
Someone who seems to be ungraspable
high above in the clouds with body, soul and mind.
For me, there is nothing not to be grasped abou... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 6:19 am
Aren't we all masters in a way
Where mutual exchange takes place?
Aren't we all servants
to this life of disarray?
Aren't we all doomed
To bear what comes?
And above all,
aren't we all dead when our time has come?
The master and the servant, the serv... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2010, 6:13 am
I saw your name up front
like no one else would ever do
I sacrificied my heart
for people unworthy of you
but I found another way
or the way found me
I met another traveler
who volunteered to accompany me
my lover,
I hardly write about you
... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2010, 3:12 pm
Love is a precious thing
the most precious of it all ...
something not to joke around with
so I won't ...
I really won't.
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Apr 15, 2010, 3:16 am
I sang into the open air
where noone could hear a word
I sang for flowers, butterflies and towers
but all I got was silence unheard.
Maybe it's for the better
Maybe it's for the best
My voice would give no meaning
To the words written down from above.
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Apr 14, 2010, 7:23 am
Tired stories
from the hells above
Tired hands
resting on love
Tired faces
of miracles unseen
Tired eyes
of beauty and misery in between.
I'ld love to see you this morning
in a velvet gown of lilies
I hope you'll find my eyes twinkling again
For a newfound joy I ne... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 4:03 am
Read my interview on Quills of Fire on http://www.hercircleezine.com !!
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Mar 23, 2010, 7:44 am
So many people ...
so many lives ...
ruined.
It does matter you know ...
when sombody of violent character
threatens you with death,
when somebody tries
to rape you,
when somebody close to you
hits you like a boxing ball.
Where, how, who ...
matters so little
It leaves it's mark
Scars ... Comment - Like
Lena Vanelslander posted an article on
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Feb 18, 2010, 10:25 am
A longdistancecall? What do they want this time?
I had a dream
And then came Love
I had to choose
I lost both, eitherway.
My exes haunt me in my dreams
The most shallow ones first.
A vision of a bedroom
The one from my first love
While listening to the breathing
Of an unimportant approach.
How ... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2010, 2:07 am
I loved to see you cry
The anger of your tears
welling down in a fountain of pain
the outburst after the drop
the fury of the passion
Maybe it's just me
Maybe it's the world
But it shows ...
emotion and passion still invoke fear. Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2010, 11:41 am
For that rosebud that never saw the light of day
For each leaf destroyed to hear that adorable crisp
For each animal butchered to savour that delicious taste.
For the millions of poor who don't get a chance
For the millions of nimrods who think they know the way
For the millions of depressed wh... Comment - Like
I have a slightly chaotic, dark mind which you will surely notice in my writings. I started writing poetry in my twenties. Several poems have been published ... (cfr. mainly in The Stray Branch and Savage Manners)
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