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All I wanted was to live
with my greens and oranges and reds
I'm the Devil's berries
plucked for murder.
I'll make you delirious
my little walking dream.
My doll eyes,
just take one glance.
My voice like angel trumpets,
come and listen, fatal to the ear.
My cerise tresses cascade
like growing, trawling ivy.
My baneful skin as white as oleander.
My breast two ripe cherries,
plump with their poison juice.
A first kiss is poison
the second, a remedy.
Think they can destroy me,
men?
I'm immune to their toxins,
immune to their murder.
I'll seduce them with my death cherries
my lethal lips
kill with a kiss.
But with him
Obsession, hisses in my ear
spitting at me it's venom
I'm plucking at that forbidden fruit.
He's tied me up
in his bondage fantasy.
The asylums my only asylum.
But I want to be alone
with my purples and crimsons and ochres.
I am a third year English Literature and Creative Writing student at Lancaster University. As I am in my final year I am hoping after graduation to start a career in the fashion industry. I am particularly interested in writing and publishing so a job that incorporates my flair for the written word and fashion would is meant for me!
During my teens I spent a lot of time doing work experience for advertising agencies and was given the opportunity to work at The Clothes Show Live in Birmingham, a fantastic experience. Ever since I have swooned over Vogue and Company magazine to name a few amongst many other fashion publications and sat in awe at the new world of fashion blogging. It amazes me how this digital platform can take the average girl out of her suburban life and throw her into the fashion sphere. When all this education nonsense is over I will most definitely venture into starting my own blog.
My writing is concerned with taking the trials and tribulations of everyday life and creating something fantastical to explore such ordinary themes. Here are a few examples from a collection of poems I wrote, inspired by Carol Ann Duffy's The World'sWife and that 'boy's business' (as Mrs Dalloway would say) of comic books.
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