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Category: John Geddes

… yes I speak a different language – the dark fire of poetry – it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood…

dark-fire, different-language, mood, poetry, writing-craft

…at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words – don’t know if it helped, but it made me more concrete …

writing, writing-craft, writing-process-writing-advice

…all these epic battles and monsters lately – but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style…

battles, love, monsters

…you became lost in the maze of me – forgive me Love, for keeping you close…

…at some point we must achieve our identity -we can’t be always in adolescence seeking who we are…

change, identity, maturity

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness …disturbing my placid universe…marking the landscape within me …

disturbing, landscape, peaceful, perfection, placid, poetry, snow, universe, whiteness, world

…when your heart is broken, don’t go silent – speak to God in his own language…

brokenhearted, god, god-s-language, silence, silent, speak

…the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows…

berries, boughs, food, nature, poetry, sparrows, winter

…you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world – I can’t hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you …

disappointment, liar, lies, love, pain, poetry, sorrows

…when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart – I want to hug them for being real…

authentic, heart-wrenching, honest, honesty, hug, vulnerable, wisdom

…I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it’s beautiful? – like the soft gentle lines of snow…

beautiful, gentleness, love, snow, softness

…I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight – with you, everything was beautiful…

beautiful, cigarette, shaft, smoke, sunlight