Emberwolf17

So I recently moved and the fresh environment has really encouraged me to really start painting. Actually it is too the point where I either paint or sketch once a day and I am loving it. While I am not sure how great the work is, I wanted to share it with people so they could experience the bliss of a change that is coming over me. Nothing is more calming than stepping away from a piece of work covered in paint more than it is. I will also be trying to add some more of my older poetry to share.

So the last few days I have been busily packing to move to a new apartment. In the process I have been working to down size all the stuff that I have. Of course this means diligently looking through notebooks to pick out all the scraps of poems that I have because most of them were written while sitting in class. In the process I ended up finding quite a few that I had forgotten to show off. So over the next few days I will try to put quite a few of them up, and hope that they will be liked. Feel free to comment on them as you please. Feedback is always excellent.

So I just scratched out a poem this evening in reflection to how I am feeling tonight. I do not know how familiar people are with this experience... but I have spent the last two years of my life dealing with a verbally and emotionally abusive boyfriend and then ex. I know it seems like a long time to put up with such a thing but it is impossible to describe the hold that kind of person brings in your life. There are no physical marks to prove that you have been through something like that. If you or someone you know has experienced it would be nice to know I am not the only one out there. It is so hard to realize that you have been hurt. I h