Simplicity

February 21, 20151 Comment

Salmon pink splurge over liquid blue.

A tail that flutters like an eyelash,

sinking to the grass in petulant smoke.

Sneak Peak! My Book Cover

January 28, 20153 Comments

Thanks to the very talented Bonnie for my wonderful book cover design! The novel is called “Caskets of Ice”.

If you have any questions, or think I should release a preliminary chapter (or two!) out into the blog- world, then please feel free to comment below! Here is a link to Bonnie’s page so you can check out her other illustrations and general awesomeness:

http://bonniepang.weebly.com/

Inspiration #13

January 22, 20151 Comment

“Here is my Secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Le Petit Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

winter fire

December 18, 20142 Comments

I reach through;
gravel crunching like
a gingerbread trail,
past the water’s surface
of glazed ice-
the leaves breathing
frost to a cloudless sky.
I feel the rush of heat
on my skin;
flames that creep like ivy,
black smoke spitting flecks of orange
belched forth in midnight blue
and I watch;

watching it burn.

Inspiration #12

October 22, 2014Leave a comment

“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

~Road Dahl “The Twits”

talking dolls

October 21, 20142 Comments

The insanity of talking dolls,
the lifeless bundle of thread and stuffing,
breathe life just by playing,
giving it a name, making a voice,
moving its limbs. Already it is real,
real name, real expression and then;
it becomes not an ‘it’ but a ‘they’
and when you come home you wonder-
at the way they sit and look out the window.
Because they move all the time-
…..Didn’t you know?

Inspiration#11

September 26, 2014September 26, 2014Leave a comment

“It is what you read when you don’t have to, that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

– Oscar Wilde

Inspiration #10

September 25, 2014September 25, 2014Leave a comment

swirl-divider4 “One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.” – Michael Cunningham

Inspiration #9

September 17, 2014September 17, 2014Leave a comment

“Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them….Whatever your life may become, these books -of this I am certain- will weave through the web of your unfolding. They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys.”

– R. M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Shades of Blue

September 14, 2014Leave a comment

My bare feet
fit the groove of worn boards
sapphire, azure,
trailing my fingers through the midnight shimmer
of soft, lulling waves.
Bathed in the rising vapours of
a swirling mist,
it signals the army of spirits;
riders on horseback
dancing on electric blue scales.
Mountain tops like distant shadows of
ice castles in the clouds
and trees like cauliflower,
that spring as tufts of a newborn’s hair
over the silhouette of a valley touched-
in shades of blue.

Katewjwhite

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