January 2024

January 28, 2024

Raw Lit Issue 4 Cover Reveal

Please enjoy the cover reveal for Raw Lit’s Issue 4, my artwork ‘Starry Morning‘. Please check out the magazine, give a read to their previous issues and join me in anticipation of their issue 4. Go HERE to read , and if Twitter ( I ain’t ever calling it X!) is your thing, HERE is… Continue reading

Dribbling Nightshades, The Choir of the Damned

Art, collage, cover, creativity, digital art, inspiration, lit mag, publication, raw lit
January 23, 2024

The Dark Riddle

The Dark Riddle Was I love after death; or death before love?When slowly from the dirt I’d pluck a flower.All light is immortal, the darkness behoves. Did I whisper my dreams to the Foxglove;did I whimper and cry, like a child or a coward?Was I love after death; or death before love? The sight of… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

creative writing, death, dVerse, Goddess, inspiration, midjourney, Morana, poem, poetry, Slavic mythology, spilledink, villanelle, winter
January 19, 2024

Raven’s Song

Digital, mixed media collage, to honour the birthday of one of my favourite writers, poets and the endless source of my inspiration, Edgar Allan Poe, whose birthday, in the ghost worlds as well, is today. The piece was a ‘paint as you go’ while doing other stuff around the house (cooking, ironing, the jazz),so I… Continue reading

Dribbling Nightshades

Art, collage, digital art, dream within a dream, edgar allan poe, inspiration, raven
January 16, 2024

They still call you White City

Belgrade is a painting by Les Ducak which was uploaded on December 5th, 2011. Found HERE They still call you White City; the new majortook your sparrows and strangled them.The crows are doing alright; the tourists feed them local crisps.Old Yellow*, I think, now haunts your underpasses and cat eyes glimmer from greasy bassements,purr into your… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

Belgrade, city, creative writing, creativity, dVerse, inspiration, poetry, poezija, prompt, spilledink
January 15, 2024

Stay – Sunday Confessionals

Stay Stay, firecracker words. Nobody will knowyour off-key contributions in the high-notes of the day,the briefness of the world in a sparrows gaze containedand the collage of the breadcrumb trail stuck to the featherscompels my heart to wash it, in the rain;And I am to extend, until all that’s left is bone,but naming my own… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

creative writing, creativity, inspiration, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, poetry, reply, spilledink, sunday confessionals, william meredith
January 14, 2024

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Per Aspera Ad Astra Every last church in the world tolling its bells.Everybody screaming.A bewildered epicenter amused by the opera of cicada.One hundred and thirty six dreams of watercounted down to ten.The lungs all wings.Everybody sings.The void gazing into not hers.Night flowers preaching of their bloom.The hearse and the choir, bringing in the hurt.There’s swimming… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

abstract, creative writing, dissonance, free verse, inspiration, midjourney, poem, poetry, spilledink, surreal
January 11, 2024

In wilderness and picking roots – dVerse : Last Year’s First Eleven

In wilderness and picking roots Asymmetric bandwagon cusps dawnings.The afternoon rips our arms apart.The night dreams of wild strawberries;come night, we are Caravaggio’s angelscracked like the skyline,lead in the water, neon on the cross,the glow of Northern stars beckons.We make our own sugar, small symphonies,split open.SometimesI set alight the bridge. *for dVerse Last Year’s First Eleven,… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

2023, creative writing, creativity, dVerse, inspiration, list poem, poetry, summary poem
January 11, 2024

Aesop’s nightmare pt. 1

Aesop’s nightmare If only the terracotta of a Novemberevening sky drizzled softly aflame wouldallow a heart to transcend from curatorto custodian;the ghost not only knows the cruel truthof every matter behind the door of this museum,the ghost but only will invite the bottom of the footto stomp on dreams,like light berefts the sand to living… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

abstract, collage, creative writing, creativity, digital art, inspiration, poetry, spilledink, surreal, writing
January 9, 2024

On nurturing the crows that nested in your wings – dVerse Poetics

On nurturing the crows that nested in your wings Ever so carefullyprick the top of one’s headwith a metal circle;drop on the crossroadswhen dead.Make sure only the Moon sees you.Hecate washes her scars,star by star,the soulis just a witness. Bead your trinkets and your charmsonto the gizzards,tuck them in like a tearburrowing into the unthread… Continue reading

Dribbling Nightshades, Lights and Shades

Art, blank page, collage, creative writing, crow, digital art, inspiration, poetry, spilled ink, surreal, writing, writing process
January 8, 2024

Consequence of Myth – Quadrille

Consequence of myth Never argue with trees;the wisdom of their rootswears the pissed-out eighteen year old whiskeylike a busker’s cloak,so wet it cannot burn.Dark char.Best I could do is Blue Lagoon.Best I could do is what if rainwater tasted sweet. *written in response to the Quadrille prompt at dVerse; where we were tasked with writing… Continue reading

Lights and Shades

44 words, blue, creative writing, creativity, dVerse, inspiration, lagoon, poetry, quadrille, writing

About Me

I don’t mind the sun sometimes,
the images it shows,
I can taste you on my lips
and feel you in my clothes.
Cinnamon and sugary
and softly spoken lies,
you never know just how you look
through other people’s eyes

Color me in Cyanide and Cherry

January 2024

Raw Lit Issue 4 Cover Reveal

The Dark Riddle

Raven’s Song

They still call you White City

Stay – Sunday Confessionals

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Aesop’s nightmare pt. 1

On nurturing the crows that nested in your wings – dVerse Poetics

Consequence of Myth – Quadrille

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