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Artist // Hobbyist // Literature
  • Jan 1
  • United States
  • Deviant for 15 years
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My Bio
“It happened 31 years ago,
I can’t forget it,
in Singapore, the rain
falling
hot like blood
on the ancient white walls
half-eaten by the dampness
that left
leprous kisses on them.
The dark crowd
suddenly glowed
in a flash of lightning,
baring teeth
or eyes
and the steel-like sun
was an implacable sword
in the sky.

I stumbled through flooded streets,
the red Betel nuts
lifting themselves
above
the beds of fragrant leaves
and the Dorian fruit
rotted away
in the sultry afternoon.

All of a sudden
I faced a stare
coming out of a cage
in the middle of a street,
two icy circles,
two magnets,
two enemy currents,
two eyes
that penetrated my eyes
and nailed me to the earth
and to the leprous wall.

I then saw
the rippling body
and it was
a trace of velvet
flexing perfectly,
darkest night.

Under her black fur
brushed with dust
flashed topaz rhombuses,
or gold hexagons—
I’m not sure which—!
whenever her thin presence moved.

The thinking
throbbing
panther
was
only
a
savage
queen
in a box
in the middle
of a filthy street.
Out of the jungle
far away from lies,
the stolen spaces,
the bittersweet odor
of humans
and their dust-filled houses
she alone
expressed
through her gem-like
eyes
her disgust,
her burning hatred,
and those eyes
were
two
unbreakable
seals
that closed
until
eternity
a door to the wilderness.

She paced back and forth
like fire and like smoke,
and when she closed her eyes
she became invisible
distant unembraceable night."

By Pablo Neruda, Translated by David Unger

Favourite Visual Artist
Salvador Dali, Vladimir Kush, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klint, Annie Leibovitz
Favourite Movies
Girl, Interrupted; Sylvia; Howl's Moving Castle; Dangerous Liaisons; Marie Antoinette; The Phantom of the Opera; West Side Story; Fantastic Mr. Fox; The Outsiders; The Virgin Suicides; Jane Eyre; Slumdog Millionaire; Thirteen; Amadeus; Coraline
Favourite TV Shows
Avatar: The Last Airbender, Skins (UK)
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Florence + the Machine, Lana Del Rey, We the Living, Mozart, Edward Sharpe + the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons
Favourite Books
Jane Eyre, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Identical, The Phantom of the Opera, Lolita, Howl's Moving Castle, The Hunger Games, Pride and Prejudice, Looking for Alaska, Candor, The Glass Castle, Peter Pan, Dracula
Favourite Writers
Sylvia Plath, Anaïs Nin, C.S. Lewis, Niccolò Machiavelli, Robert Greene, Rainer Maria Rilke, Brian Jaques, Khalil Gibran, Scott Westerfeld, Suzanne Collins,
Tools of the Trade
imagination, Canon Rebel t2i, any computer with internet access
Other Interests
biking, running, yoga, meditation, world cultures, travel, baking, philosophy, psychology, politics, pranks, the arts

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I will refrain from dancing around the house for a moment to express my deep and utter thanks to everyone who commented on/favourited/collected my poem, "My Howls Are Silent," as well as to those who recently followed me. I cannot begin to describe how excited I am. sdjngskdgnfaljsdflartmarec,jr4xalwsehrnvckxmd vsnckgtk4jsxdh nvcmnvrsetvdrnchntvreuiyjmhnmtfjufdjuei dfklgnsdzkfngdkjhngkawhrifdmsckjZDgfbresdkgbnlfaewiori4wre8sdifjzxkljfsgbjergbklerjg arskjltgbaerwfsdilaiq[ergfsdvxcniuertg5498fdujknvxcsdiufrseiuhte948rshfd This is something I have dreamed about since I was thirteen. I love you all. <3 <3 <3 <3
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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." curved around right lung "Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?" inside of right wrist "She walks in beauty, like the night   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;   And all that's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes" wrapped around left ankle "I am the decisive element" inside of right forearm "My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water. I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of
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My death won't be quiet. I won't disappear into the night, moon gleaming on the slow-moving stream, draped in flowers. No, there will be trails of blood. Mania. There will be fire. Passion. They will know who I was. They will know I was alive. Attend my funeral decked in red. Dark crimson, the colour of just letted blood. Burn me in a pyre. Dance. Celebrate. Let there be hard alcohol and multicoloured sparklers and raucous music. Let there be fucking fireworks for all I care. Let there be light. Memorialise my life on a beach. Shove the burning boat into the ocean for my body to float away on. I will be the eternal nomad. I hope my mem
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I noticed you had favourited one of my bookmarks some time ago so I wanted you to be aware that my bookmarks are being moved to my new account.
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You can refavourite the bookmark here: sniffnsketch.deviantart.com/ar…
I have featured a poem of yours HERE
happy birthday, lovely soul! :huggle: <3
Thanks so much for your support! :heart: :coffeecup:
big thank you for the fav :)
thank you for the fave :rose: