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phoenix

April 13, 2018
to be honest, i haven't thought much about opendiary in the past four or so years. but still, somehow.... somehow when i saw that little email in my inbox saying it was back... i feel like i've come home. like the part of myself that i've been missing all these years was always existing here,&hel...
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  • rediscovery
    March 20, 2013
     i had forgotten about so many parts of myself for so long and then tonight i stumbled across an old livejournal i had back in 2005, which led me to here. i remember feeling safest within the walls of this diary, with the people here. i shared so much of myself in these pages that…
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  • an epiphany, of sorts
    January 11, 2009
      she sings to the sparrows          sitting                    outside her windowsill. their soft song keeps      her hands fr...
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  • get down
    December 17, 2008
    so i am trying to write.     and so far it isn't going too well. but perhaps. perhaps. i have so many first verses and half-finished stories. maybe i will finish them first. maybe the inspiration will come back.     okay, so, submissions are open for the journal. send one or t...
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  • scratch
    December 13, 2008
    we are starting from scratch. perhaps not literally, but metaphorically. i am not deleting entries but i am starting fresh, with a new view, a new goal, a new horizon set in my sights. i have gone through my favourites and re-read all the reasons why i stayed here for so long and i have…
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  • somewhere between floorboards
    July 7, 2008
        i have been missing somewhere.     and i want to come back. but i am unsure if i can do this anymore. this writing. this baring myself to the world. this trying to make myself beautiful through words. i think i've lost that somewhere along the way. dropped it into the ocea...
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  • when i was a grasshopper child
    December 7, 2007
      from rooms of curved mirrors theywould speak softly ofanamorphosis i press my chest againstthe wooden tablestretching out intoclear blue sky the sailors warn ofred sky approachingfrom an angle not our own still,we leap into actionfor fear of existencebeing squashed under heavy feet my brea...
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  • heart lines.
    December 1, 2007
    . there are love heartscoming from the phone lineanatomical and perfectsqueezing through the tiny holesyour voice used to fit through. we don't belong here anymorethe black lines haveturfed us outthrown our limpid bodiesinto scattered air waves i still keep the phone off the hook,after the last t...
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  • but what’s in a name
    September 29, 2007
    . . so, i am in need of help. i have spent the past twenty-four hours or more trying to think of a name for my poetry zine. i underestimated the difficulty of this project. i have come up with a few, but i need help in deciding which to choose. and of course, if…
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  • daisy amnesia
    September 27, 2007
    title: or 'the day that spring gave birth' the spring sunis sinking nooninto my memory i dig my roots into make time stand stillthey reach wintermy heart skips a beat andmy head remembers this sky burialevery august i am motheredinbetween two seasonsthat didn't want me --i wish i was somewhere he...
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