Creative space

[vaneramos]

There's no place as lonely as an empty page. One can fathom the god's impulse, in vastly ringing silence of the void, to create a living being who could turn in free will and fill the emptiness with love. A countenance emerging from the darkness, see? Humanity is the voice in shadows watching, the mirror in a reflection of the face. Light flickers across shadow. An aperture shudders, a diaphragm's hiccup, and captures an awakening.

Our social creature consciousness projects this eternal hunger for mother-breast of the collective. Cats don't feel that way; they leap away from the damp spook, flicking an impatient paw. A genuine omnipotent sculptor is like a predator, too. Wandering past, brandishing a scythe, he casts our spent lives on the compost heap of time.

I dreamt of a city surrounded by mountains. A pale tornado arose from each peak around the ridge, five of them. In the midst of the valley rose a shattered outcrop like the walls of an ancient temple. Ragged clouds streamed out of this summit, too. The storm seemed to boil right out of the earth, like steam from lid edges of a pot.

I put my pen on the line.

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Another photo is posted in doorwindowwall.

Comments

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

this my friend is great stuff

bewell
lovemunkey

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It's hard to get myself in the right frame of mind to go this deep, and yet it feels close to my authentic voice.

Cheers,
Van

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I was driving around later in the evening, these words came back to me, and I thought, "Did I post that!" The words were still real, they just seemed too bald and brutal. Sometimes my own writing alarms me that way. It's reassuring when it resonates with someone.

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

This whole page is full of imagery. I want to have enough time to write about art in that way. I'm just too busy right now.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll find a little space, even a few minutes here and there. Record your ideas while you're in the midst of them.

Hugs.

I love this pic

[ranjtheobscure.livejournal.com]

and the new(?) user pic is way cool.

Re: I love this pic

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The user pic is from a photo shoot bitterlawngnome did in April. I tend to use it for posts about creative writing.