Eyes

The task here was to describe a body part...

On a dark cloudy day,
they are a cold, dark grey blue,
like shiny stones,
that know what is true.

On a bright clear day,
they sparkle, green and blue,
like diamonds from an ocean,
that are looking straight at you.

My evening companion

This is the fourth weeks exercise...
We had to play blind and pick up something and describe it

My evening companion

Soft, big and plush;
I like stroking the fur,
It’s lovely to touch,
But it doesn’t purr,

So nice to squeeze,
It returns to its shape,
It doesn’t have knees,
It’d be hard to break,

It doesn’t have a smell,
And has no sound to hear,
I wonder if you can tell,
This is my big teddy bear.

Depression - Poetry wk 2

This exercise was about working with metaphors and similies...

Depression

The world is so dark,
It is all doom and gloom,
Where is my sparkle?
Why did it leave the room?

I feel so alone,
trapped in a nightmare,
life is falling apart,
I wish I could disappear.

I feel dark inside,
like my heart was ripped out,
no tears left to cry,
yet this pain needs to get out.

It hides in my chest,
dark, silent and lurking,
pain, please go away,
I need to stop this hurting.

And still it persists,
till I can’t take any more,
time to change my life,
so I open a new door,

Light trickles in,
and life tags along,
happiness enters,
Why did you go for so long?

Poetry paper - first wk

1. I started with “I set up home inside my dreams” and I came up with this...

A beautiful home in a gorgeous small town,
With twinkling water, it is heaven all around,
I feel so happy, I feel so alive,
I feel like I’m soaring, right up through the skies

2. But nothing can change the way that I went...

In my life before kids
I couldn’t complain,
I had clothes, I had money,
life was a game,

There was shopping and cars,
I spent so much on shoes,
There was travelling and nightlife,
there was money for booze,

I lived in big cities,
I was living a dream,
Then I chose to have kids,
I didn’t know what that’d mean,

It meant going back home,
It meant settling down,
I found it so difficult,
I hated that old town,

First I had Noah,
born June, 2007,
He was my angel,
sent straight from heaven,

Aaliyah was my second,
born at the end of 2008,
She was born to a family
broken, filled with hate,

I had to make a change,
we had to get out,
so I made a big decision,
we moved to the Mount,
 
There we spent 2009 focused on healing,
Then in 2010 I started to get a feeling,
I needed a change, to get into a dream,
Paihia called me, it had to be seen

So off on a road trip
to follow my heart,
Which moved us to Paihia,
we made a fresh start,

And now it feels as though I’ve found a home,
More happy and content than I’ve ever known,
Now my life with kids is sometimes insane,
But life is so perfect, and I can’t complain.

3. The room closes around me

I feel the darkness around me,
I want to get out,
Is this a bad dream?
How did this come about?

My kids won’t stop fighting,
I don’t know what to do,
I’m feeling quite miserable,
It feels darker than blue,

I want to escape,
this thing called depression,
I’d rather create,
I like making an impression,

So I open the door,
And light filters in,
Something has changed,
I am happy within,

The darkness has gone,
The days are so bright,
I love my new home,
My lounge is filled with light.

Opps... what a busy month

Ok... so I haven't posted in ages...

But I have a good excuse now. I have just moved to Paihia, Bay of Islands and am living my dream. I am studying full time WRITING!! So my kids go to day care and I am writing and reading during the day... So its time to catch up on some posts I think... And I am going to post my stuff from my poetry paper I think!!

Awesomeness...

So heres what happened... I did my little trip up here. On the 24th was when I arrived here. I made a deal with the universe, with God, whatever you want to call it. It had been forcast for rain for the past three days of my travels, and hadn't yet rained, but it was due to the next day. So I said, if you put on a stunning day for me I will trust that everything will be ok, and I will move.

The 25th was a stunning day. So I made my choice. I called mum to say I was moving to Paihia and that she would no doubt have someone contact her about the house soon. The next day a family contacted her, they were moving over from Germany...

They came and looked at the house the next week, around the 7th of July. And then they said they wanted to move in by the 17th!! So I ran around like a complete crazy packing up the house in just over a week... to move to Paihia, just no idea where yet. The moving truck arrived on the 16th and all my stuff was packed into the truck. Officially homeless... I partied out in Tauranga on the Saturday night, and couldn't drive on the Sunday. So I drove to Paihia on the Monday. The 19th of July.

I walked through Paihia Mall and looked at the community notice boards. And found a three bedroom place, with SEA VIEWS. I rang about it straight away and fell in love straight away. I moved in that Wednesday, the 21st July!! Absolutely insane. I got everything unpacked in just over a week and the kids arrived on the 29th of July. I enrolled in my course on the 6th of August and here I am. Now a full time student. Studying the thing I love the most.

So I will try and keep posting my work... I am particularly enjoying this poetry paper. So fingers x'd all goes well for me!!

So happy and so excited... I am living the dream!!