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He would never have told her, drawn and cauterised He watched her in cold concentration and believed She’d one day touch his knee on motorways and wear his Own green shirt to draw the…
Month: September 2017
Read Poetry: Writer’s Life, by Eirini Antoniou
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It was a sad and cloudless morning I took my pen out of my kit And put a feather in my head Did I really think it would help me to write best? I ate an apple and drunk some tea but the ideas were still not pouring out of me. I started crying from despair then I went to the fridge to eat a pear. “Let’s see a movie” I told myself “Or read a book that would be the best!” I run with joy up and down even my spider thought: “we have a crazy one around” The evening found me in the bathtub thinking “that’s it, my fate as a writer it’s done”. I threw away my pens and pencils even my favorite notebook full of sketches. Two months passed and I still cry. I always thought I would be a writer for life. I walk pass the places I loved to write and I don’t speak with people I used to inspire. Friends have left me all alone and I have no one to turn to when I feel alone. They say “you act like your best friend died” which is true my writing has gone out of sight! Searching and searching I sat by the sea …
