Look back Darkly...

After the fabulous joy of sharing all things

Poe last month...

LeighSBDesigns is inviting us to play along with her again

How could one possibly resist.

I will be making something new,  but due to

illness(flu) I am running behind, so will begin this hop

by sharing a few passed joys...

An original poem (by moi) first posted way back

in 2014

HOW BEATS MY HEART?

How beats MY heart?....

Creeping round the neighbourhood.

Filled with passion, fire and blood,

This heart leads me to something good.

How beat THESE hearts?....

Shrouded by a longing deep,

I stand in shadows as you sleep

And darkness comes, our love to keep.

How beats YOUR heart?...

Do you feel nothing for our plight?

We are the Children of the Night

With whom you vow to ever fight.

How beats YOUR heart?

Compassion for my love you lack.

My heart breaks as you attack

with tarnished cross upon your back.

How beats YOUR heart?...

With righteousness, so harsh,so grand.

A wooden stake grasped in your hand...

His body turns to barren sand.....

NOW beats my heart!...

It screams in rage without his love,

And claws spring forth from velvet glove,

As I leap upon you from above...

How beats THIS heart?...

Here in my grip...

Which from your chest I gladly rip...

How beats MY heart Hunter?

......SILENTLY!!!!

*The accompanying art collage is a piece I made years ago when I had a 

"dark" specific blog called "Corner of my eye"*

An InLinkz Link-up

Inspired to Show and Tell...

At Inspiration Avenue this week they are having a "Show and Tell" session, so I thought I would share a few pieces that I had blogged on my other blog (when I had 2 blogs) which was for "creepier" stuff. That blog was called "In the Corner of My Eye", and it allowed me to explore the darker side of my imagination. I mostly did collage, fancy cutting and working on A6 card pieces.

This first piece was inspired by the prompt word "Mirror"

I don't like mirrors...I always expect to see someone behind me...and they don't work right. When I stand in front of a mirror why can I see things reflected that are to the side of the thing and not just in line with it??? It just creeps me out :/ (See ...something even weirder about me you didn't know :D)

This second piece was inspired by the prompt "Timeless Elegance"

The background is a photo I took while walking, and the elegant ladies and the clock face were printed on vellum before being cut out and glued. Loved that effect, I think this was actually the first collage of this style that I ever made.

..and this is probably one of the most "not sure how to take this" ones I ever made. The background image is a photo I took of a plastic statue in a theme park, and it looked like a very pious but very creepy monk. I cut out an image of a beautiful angel and over-laid it. I think I was trying to show the different ways people interpret religious devotion, and that there can be a dark as well as a good side to any intense belief.

I have to say I have really enjoyed revisiting these old friends...and all the others I haven't posted here :D

Enjoy...or maybe not mwahahahahaha........:D XXX