I have to compose a body of work for my creative writing class. this is the problem one faces when electing creative writing classes at university. so i went hunting in my diary for poems that i have written previously, for to avoid writing any new ones.
this is the diary, which i began writing on my arrival home from germany in jan o4, but only began writing frequently in when i started going out with tim 6months later. subsequently, almost the entire journal is filled with feelings i had or have had, whilst not being allowed to any longer have them, for tim. it spans 24 months of my life.
anyway, i found 2 poems worthy of reworking and submission. whilst looking i found some entries (excerpts) which deserve reflection because, in the words of the shins, it is hard to leave all these moments behind.
the blue writing is my thoughts/comments on the journal:
monday 27th june 05
He rang me yesterday and told me. He wanted to catch up, but we'll have to later on in the week. i'm not nervous anymore, but a little unwilling because every time i see him it undoes a part of me that i thought i'd sewn up, and it hurts. Now i'm thinking about him again.
...i don't really feel so distinctly. i hate it and i miss him so much.
sunday 3rd july 05 (2 days before mark's games night)
Tim messaged me to do something today. I rang him and said to go to newy beach cause it's sunny. he got there first.
ha ha, i love that i wrote that. it cracks me up....i felt really close to him after being so far away for so long.
NB: on the tuesday of mark's games night, it was exactly 5 months that we had been broken up. so i hadn't seen him for that long and was clearly so demented that i counted the amount of time for which we were broken up :p we talked for ages. i ate his food. he still has his coffee black. when will someone be more perfect than him?
for those unaware, tim and i got back together about a week after mark's games night, four days after what would have otherwise been our 1year anniversary...or so i have written in the journal. this is a fact that i forgot immediately after writing it and im sure remains unknown to timothy. freaky tho.5/10/05Funny how i don't write about how sublimely happy i am...or not? maybe not, because i think writing is a therapy, not a record of chronological events. For the record however, i am so fucking happy, that i just said fuck. ok so now the funny parts of the journal.
the first time i tried marajuana was infact 2 days 25-26th june 05 (yeah, late bloomer). we started a few hours before midnight on 25th to count down to amy's 21st on the 26th, but were so stoned that we forgot to keep counting and realised at 12.40ish that she was 21. lol. then we put the telly on and fell asleep quite content. on her birthday, at her after party someone pulled out a bong and we got into it again after drinking free beer and champers for the past 4 hours. this is what happened:
chaz greened out in the toilets of the northern star while others were doing shots. i was holding onto the had dryer pissing myself laughing at chaz.
random guy anthony the bottle opener drove us to loz's house
this was infact the guy opening bottles at amy's very swish par-tay. he hit on my sister, so she said hey, DRIVE US HOME! but not before we got kebebs loljay and sean made out for ages cracking me and aimes up.i rang todd at 1am REALLY gone.
i dont even remember what was going onloz and court passed out and i put phones in their mouths. it took me ages to work out what this meant, but i do remember me and aimes being VERY quiet so we didnt wake them, and the phones staying there for ages, cracking us up.sean and jay gave me heaps of dares, all of which i did - including the phone-in-mouth one.richard and sean spent about an hour sniffing my scarf, which did have the slight scent of my perfume, but was overcome by boy smell and ciggarettes cause jay had been wearing it (anywhere he could) for the last few hours.
oh my god that was so much fun. if youve put up with me for this long, ill let you critique my poetry.
On Saturday Afternoon
Wind-curls in my hair.
Gritty, tea-stained teeth.
It's sunny through the window,
I have new music
and i've never wanted to be
further from here.
Sock-eaten feet go cool
eyelids drag down and
my tea goes cold.
In a moment I'll be gone.
In a moment I'll be gone.
On Morning
Birds shriek in harmony.
Light lifts the corners of my curtains.
Distant alarms, motors;
Outside, my city is in motion.
Inside, my head is heavy.
Fading memories of nightdreams
crashing, slamming, pulling
breaking wakes me lately
forcing me into today. I stretch,
I sigh, I stand; ready for yesterday
again.
there you go. thankyou.