Terra's Tales: Satellite

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Satellite

i keep my hands outstretched
so that when i sense the night
bend towards me i might
catch a dream between my fingertips.

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Something very short and simple I wrote a very long time ago now.

Just felt the need to update because I'm in a major poetry-mood at the moment. I've got several things in the pipeline at the moment - some competition stuff and some *le gasp* visual stuff - but they've still got to be finished and polished up, so they'll be a bit of a delay before they're up here, unfortunately.

But stay tuned for more poetry from the pen of Terra!

2 comments:

teacupofglam10 February 2010 at 23:08
This is so cute, I love it!!! Well done, short and sweet is often the most effective method, methinks <3 xxx
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Terradoll11 February 2010 at 20:25
Haha, thank you, J! :)

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Terra's Bookshelf

Fred d'Aguiar: 'The Longest Memory' - a short novella about the life of slaves on Southern America plantations at the turn of the 19th century. It's on my Cultural Criticism reading list as part of our course on identity and body politics, and as a cultural text it makes a lot of interesting and poignant points. Simple yet resonating.
Daphne du Maurier: 'Rebecca' - a classic gothic tale of doubles and 'the other woman'. So just my sort of thing, really...
'Beowulf' - more medieval literature for my course. To be honest, I was expecting something more from this. Just more general epicness. I was waiting for something to happen, and it never did. Maybe it's because I remembered Grendel being scarier when I first read the story in primary school.

Terra's Playlist

The Dresden Dolls: 'The Dresden Dolls' - emotive and darkly humorous dark cabaret music from the creative and original duo. Amanda Fucking Palmer is a genius, end of.
Otep: 'Smash the Control Machine' - poetic, dark and lyrical, this is female fronted nu-metal with a twist. There's a nice mix of tracks, from heavy stompers like 'Run for Cover', slower weepy songs like 'Ur A Wmn Now' (featuring Emilie Autumn on the violin - that's definitely what sold me), and spoken word tracks like 'I Remember'. This album is well composed and executed throughout.
Plasmatics: 'Coup d'Etat' - Wendy O Williams isn't noted as being a forerunner of the riot grrrl movement, but she could be. An iconic figure of the 1980s alternative music scene, Williams' growl and lyrical swagger characterise this blend of punk, metal and hard rock. 'Stop' is one of my favourite songs of all time.