Mourning The Living

Fiction, Poem 1 Minute

I stand out on the promontory,
Playing my violin,
Into the sombre, open spaces,
Of a long-silent world,

In the distance, stand tombstones,
Of vanquished economies,
And I wonder how long I’ll mourn,
Those old ways of living.

Darkened, greyscale photograph looking out over water towards the Seattle skyline.
Photo I took of Seattle skyline from a boat crossing to Bainbridge Island, in 2009.

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I write poems which are mental health-themed, creative or humourous :). Within mental health I write a lot about: ADHD, OCD, anxiety, autism, emotional traumaβ€” usually with an optimistic slant. My goals for my blog are to give myself a therapeutic, creative outlet whilst also being able to connect with and relate to other people.

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      3. Thank you! I’ve got sooo many like this! So many I’m so happy with. On that trip I had so much time, and that was when I learned how to take good photos :). I took thousands!

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      5. I gladly will! 😁.

        Actually, funnily enough. This photo is of Seattle (as I’m sure you knew!) and in Seattle I met a girl from Denver in a hostel one night (the only night I stayed in a hostel!). And I showed her loads of my photos I’d taken up until to that point.

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      6. Yes, I recognized it. My son lives close to Seattle in Gig Harbor and we were in Seattle last summer. Oh funny you met a girl from Denver, Denver girls are pretty cool. πŸ™‚

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      11. I was!! Well, still am, but the places you can get to by wandering around…!

        I also wrote a diary every day of the trip, so for all the photos there’s a corresponding description of that day. It’s an amazing thing to have, especially considering I injured my knee 2 years after, so it’s the only trip of that kind I’ve done.

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      13. So many! Yes :D. I’m so glad I got to do even that trip, after knee problems in my teenage years. Never thought it would be possible. I shared part of a diary entry with another blogger the other day. I think I’m going to start sharing these stories!

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    3. I’ve got loads of atmospheric photos from such a wide range of places and sights, from a single trip I did in 2009! It just occurred to me that I can make use of them as illustrations.

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      2. It was an unbelievable year! I graduated with my degree, I went parachuting, I did army training, I climbed Mount Snowdon, I got a summer school teaching job at university, I did my 3 month coushsurfing trip in North America…! And on that trip alone I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite Park, went to Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Seattle…more places! And all on such a small budget. I met so many amazing people through couchsurfing, too.

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