Loudly, Simply, Hush-Hush

Slipping down my cheeks it disguises my hot stinging sorrows. I love standing out there amongst millions of them and get it all out, walk back in to tell mom it’s just the rain shimmering on my cheeks. I’ve sucked all the glistening sorrow out of my sapphire eyes.1

Dangly little long layered locks are like my public blanket to childishly hide under so you can’t see my face. God knows you don’t want to, but I know you don’t want to more. I wouldn’t ask that of you.2

Creeping fabric from shoulders to wrists, you itch and cling to everything you hide. My opposite arm slithers slyly beneath you to scratch the crying scabs it put there. My truthful delight. As the hidden factor bleeds and clots the curtain lowers on top soaking every inch of hurt.3

Fast dancing to a slow song. I feel amongst the blue Berber carpet and soft dog hair. I smile even though song draws recollections of times with everyone. Good or bad, I compress the tears behind my eyes again and sniff. Then giggle so I feel a slight hint of crazy that I fear I am.4

Crowded and surrounded of papers and notebooks and an alarm clock, my cell phone, an empty Kleenex box, and an empty piggy bank, a loose fake flower adrift from one of many other floral arrangements, and a dictionary, I am lonely. I have drifted away from who everyone thinks I am and whom I think everyone is and I am just me for a moment. Partially under my black comforter. 5

The dusty fan blows my mildly wet hair onto my chest, back and nose. My fingers search through it finding themselves lonesome. I think upon tomorrow, something I used to find myself sunken in optimism about and now I just randomly guess of beaten replay of everyday. Still lonely. 6

A foot dangles out into the alignment of wind from the fan it gets beyond cold and I reel it back beneath my thick blanket. My hair falls past my nose I smell the shampoo. Purposely my head begins to fill of all things that upset me.7

I wrap my arms around myself and remember the scent of you. My eyes take me away to another place freely. Torturing myself with this burden of a stereotype that’s been placed on me by that “educational” institute of bullshit because I don’t meet the small town requirements. I…8

I fluff up a few pillows so they pout out like your chest and stomach and cover us with my blanket your favorite place excepts its not your blanket. I feel like you still breathing hellaciously hot air onto my hair. It stirs the scent into you and you inhale. I hear you go “Mmmm” and I smirk. “Why are you smirking?” You always preciously precisely knew if I smiled or smirked, could call it on a dime, even in the dark. I’d giggle because I always was.9

“Beauty queen of only 18 she had some trouble with herself…. Tap on my window, knock on my door I wanna make you feel beautiful,” you whispery sing to me as tears fill my eyes.10

I fly back. I flip open my phone and no messages from you while I was gone. So lonely the beauty I felt from you is gone. It went when I stepped out of your blue car. The color followed me. It comes and goes as I see you. I want to reach out to you to help me.11

But I just suffer in silence because if you knew I missed you, you’d love it. It makes it harder to move onto someone else. And you’d be so pissed if you knew people heard this. 12

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  • LiquidLullaby
    April 10, 2005
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    This story gets better with time! You have amazing talent...

    "I have drifted away from who everyone thinks I am and whom I think everyone is and I am just me for a moment"

    those lines... they just drew me in... absoulutely moving!
    Love,
    Katy
    ~*LiquidLUllaby*~

  • LiquidLullaby
    January 30, 2005
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    Hey, this was a very good piece! Very descriptive, I loved the detail! Thanks for entering!
    Love,
    Katy
    ~*LiquidLullaby*~

  • Jobob
    January 19, 2005
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    I guess I'm just from the school of story-writing that says that you shouldn't have to read something several times before you can follow what it says. I did read the story more than once, though, and it's nice that my comment was appreciated!
    Poetry, of course, can be excellent when there are layers of meaning to be unwrapped and explored, but I find that even in poetry if there isn't a basic ground-level that says what it means, I don't devote the time to unwrapping the other layers.

    Readers can be lazy that way, I'm afraid.

  • beccab
    January 19, 2005
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    Thank Jobob

    jobob in my writing i like to provoke the reader to think, in many stories writers like to say things without really saying it example
    "Take this kiss upon the brow!
    And, in parting from you now,
    Thus much let me avow-
    You are not wrong, who deem
    That my days have been a dream;
    Yet if hope has flown away
    In a night, or in a day,
    In a vision, or in none,
    Is it therefore the less gone?
    All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.
    I stand amid the roar
    Of a surf-tormented shore,
    And I hold within my hand
    Grains of the golden sand-
    How few! yet how they creep
    Through my fingers to the deep,
    While I weep- while I weep!
    O God! can I not grasp
    Them with a tighter clasp?
    O God! can I not save
    One from the pitiless wave?
    Is all that we see or seem
    But a dream within a dream?"
    Edgar Alan Poe "A Dream Within A Dream"

    Writing is all about how the reader interprets the writing to me, its like a song, it may mean many things to different people, how many times did you read my writings? thank you for your comments though jobob
    sometimes people tell me the first time my stuff doesnt make sense but the second time it does
    "i sucked all the glistening sorrow out of my sapphire eyes" is talking about when you cry and you make yourself stop the glistening is the tears and sapphire eyes is a cliche of blue eyes which i have its from the movie "aritocats" lol and "Dangly little long layered locks are like my public blanket to childishly hide under so you can’t see my face" is because i have long hair and i put it in my face when im sad otherwise its just there because i dont want people to see me upset and "God knows you don’t want to, but I know you don’t want to more. I wouldn’t ask that of you." is me being depressed like "i think im ugly because i've had a bad day so dont look at me like you would anyway and i dont want you to" and plus i was trying to story tell this is prose
    PROSE:
    meaningful and grammatical written or spoken language that does not utilize the metrical structure, word transposition, or rhyme characteristic of poetry or verse; it is, however, raised above the level of lifeless composition or commonplace conversation by the use of balance, rhythm, repetition, and antithesis. In literature, prose is the usual mode of expression in such forms as the novel, short story, essay, letter (epistle), history, biography, sermon, and oration.

    I do apreciate your comment and help jobob thank you as always very much but i will take this in to my head for when i write a story because i am not very good at it, actually i'll put one on here soon so you can tell me on it i would really appreciate it, its called "Now I Spend My Time Just Making Rhyme of Yesterday" (i credit Three Dog Night for that title" but anyway please read that jobob im being very serious

  • Jobob
    January 18, 2005
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    That's an awful lot of words for very little action.

    I can see that you've put a lot of work into it, and thought hard about your description. You've got an excellent vocabulary, that's certain.

    However (and there had to be a however), I don't understand the story. The description is too much: I'm trying to hard to get through long, loving sentences peppered with a million (I exaggerate) adjectives and adverbs and I can't find out what they actually say. Take "I’ve sucked all the glistening sorrow out of my sapphire eyes. // Dangly little long layered locks are like my public blanket to childishly hide under so you can’t see my face." These two sentences are consecutive in the story. But who do you know that would describe their own eyes a sapphire? And 'Dangly little long layered locks' is too much: you're putting a sequence of bars up between me and the sentence. The mind gets stuck on the alliteration and can't see what the sentence actually says. The next sentence is "God knows you don’t want to, but I know you don’t want to more. I wouldn’t ask that of you." By now, I can't decide who you are, where you are or who you're talking to, let alone figure out what it is that he/she/it wouldn't want to do.

    Believe it or not, the entire of the above sentence is my one criticism of the story. You're taking too much time to describe. What you should try to learn is how to show the reader what's going on instead of telling.
    For example: 'Her flowing blond hair was darker than usual, wet and heavy after the long shower, and cold drops danced down her back as she walked barefoot across the thick pink carpet. She lifted the heavy cream curtain and gazed across a misty landscape, as familiar as her own sweeping and colourful front garden.' Now compare 'She flicked her damp hair away from her face as she paced the room. Her gaze lingered on the deserted bed for a moment, eyes lost in thought, until, with an effort, she pulled herself away and tried to lose herself in the view from the window.'
    I'm telling you about the same person in the same room, but in the first you only know what the scene looks like. In the second, you know what's happening there and something about the woman's state of mind.

    I'm trying to illustrate a very important point in story-telling, not trying to criticise. If you can condense this story down a little and learn word economy as well as flair, you'll have an excellent story here.

    After all, your depths of observation, vocabulary and insight are all excellent.

  • beccab
    January 14, 2005
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    thank you

    thanks i like to use alliterations and stuff in my poems or writings and i just tried to do it lol

  • ReleaseTheDogs
    January 14, 2005
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    This was amazing. You have such a beautiful way of expressing yourself. This was such a sad story. I do hope it is not true.
    I can't get over how perfect the entire story sounded. It flowed so nicely and each sentence fit perfectly with the next. Excellent job.

    -Ashley,

  • fallendreams
    January 12, 2005
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    What a wonderfully written but sad story. I had hoped for some hint of sunlight at the end but it was not to be. Heartbreaking.

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