Tag: thoughts
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The Teacher’s Daughter – one week to go!
My third book, The Teacher’s Daughter, is a collection of poems and musing written in honour of my dad and the lessons he has taught me. It’s only right, therefore, that it’s released on his birthday: 23rd September. With a little over a week to go, I wanted to start spreading the word now because…
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Identity Crisis
What makes you you? The things you’ve seen? The lives you’ve touched? The where you’ve been? If you woke without your memories, Tell me, who, then, would you be? Would you still be you? Could you ever know for sure? Or would you relinquish all that came before? Know this: Who you have been is…
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Clock Blocked
Tick, tick, tick; the sound resounds, A hammer in the still of the minute, Tick, tick, tick; a knife that can slice through thought and all that’s in it. It’s all that lives as silence swells, Its tendrils choke my mind, Every word I’ve ever learned is filched by the lilt of time. And this…
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Pip Talk
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? Why dress up in another fruit’s skin? You’re an apple; of that there’s no doubt. Your uniqueness is to be embraced, Differences make this world grand, If all fruits had the very same taste, Life would be terribly bland.…
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Foreverie
Once upon the daylight blue, A longing was drawn in vivid hues, And sat lucid in her reverie, For times that she and he once knew. Painted on her memory’s eye, Thoughts flittered like a butterfly, They tickled at the brink of truth, And swaddled her mind in a dulcet lie. He no longer walks…
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Safe
My memory is forged from steel, An impenetrable shield, A fortified chamber of grey, And in it you lay, Hidden away, No-one but me has the key, And in my memory, Safe and strong, is where you belong, It’s where you’ll stay, Come fire, come thief, And come what may, None can steal you away,…
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Lost {mind dump}
I am lost. Not like the TV series… although the parallels are undeniable; I am a viewer, a mere spectator, of my life. I’m watching the confusing twists and baffling turns of the plot, trying to figure out what has led to this point, and what else is in store. I start each episode with…
Serena Malcolm 