transformations

"i take pleasure in my transformations.

i look quiet and consistent, but few know

how many women there are in me."

- anais nin

stuck

"what if i'm stuck. 

here.

forever."

- kathryn stockett

the storm

this level reach of blue is not my sea;

here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,

whose quiet ripples meet obediently

a marked and measured line, one after one.

this is no sea of mine. that humbly laves

untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.

i have a need of wilder, crueler waves;

they sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

so let a love beat over me again,

loosing its million desperate breakers wide;

sudden and terrible to rise and wane;

roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide

that casts upon the heart, as it recedes,

splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.

- dorothy parker, sunset gun: poems

a beginning

"captivity ends when creativity begins"

- constance chuks friday

dragons

"people who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons.

from within."

- ursula k. le guin

what if you fly?

"there is freedom waiting for you,

on the breezes of the sky,

and you ask "what if i fall?"

oh but my darling,

what if you fly?"

- erin hanson

surrender

"don't despair:

despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming.

you don't-

surrender to events with hope."

- alain de botton

my cage

"our cage

we make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,

and sing our bondage freely"

- william shakespeare

dance

"if you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet,

you'd best teach it to dance"

- george bernard shaw

scars

"i show my scars so that others know they can heal"

- rhachelle nicol

the darkness

"it was the darkness that got you. it was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. it made walls around you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe."

-jean ryhs

fire and wings

"i want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

ghosts

"i am empty of everything. i am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room."

- jean rhys, good morning, midnight

untold story

"there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- maya angelou