Hi.

Okay. So it turns out I'm writing a trilogy.
I wrote a novel. I was so happy with it. It had three parts and lots of action and likable characters and a nice concept. Then it decided to become a brat. After I spent all my time nursing it, making it presentable, I leave it alone for a second and then I come back and all of a sudden it's making demands.

-Novel-"Hey, Aleya, I was just thinking... since I'm a three part novel... why don't you flesh things out a bit and make me into a trilogy?"
-Me-… Continue

I'm not a poet or anything but since the first went over well I decided to put up this second one as well. I wrote it a couple years back within a writing workshop that I assisted after Hurricane Dean. Had some help with it but I quite like the outcome:

Instinct A slow breath brushes the landscape
making animals and vegetation quiver
through the sixth sense we humans lack.
Nature knows what the village doesn’t;
a storm is approaching.

The hot, slavering breath of Mother Nature’s… Continue

[Just found this and thought it would be a shame to lose it when I move. It really speaks to the whole writing process and how an idea gets messed up as you try to express it and it's always at its best in your head.]


Words

There are no words to express
The things inside my head
Perhaps this pen’s point’s too fine
Perhaps there’s too much on my mind…

Out there I see a world of wonder
These shutters capture as they blink
And go from negative to ink
As into paper meanings sink

B… Continue