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About Me

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My Interests

Reading, writing poetry and short stories. Listening to music,art, walking the fells, driving.

I'd like to meet:

Dead poets and suicidal writers.

Music:

The Smiths,Morrisey,Led Zeppelin,Antony and the Johnsons,The Strokes,Damien Rice, Barber- especially Adagio for Strings, anything and anybody.

Movies:

The English Patient, Jeanne De Florette, Babette's feast, Apocolypse Now,Donnie Darko, Il Postino,The Godfather.

Television:

Sometimes

Books:

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Alan Bennett. Paul Auster. Most Shakey plays and sonnets. All sorts of poets and poetry, close to my heart are Pablo Neruda and C K Williams. Partial to Yeats too.

Heroes:

There are no heroes just risk takers.

My Blog

Pine Tree

For years you have stood rooted to this spot -looking upwards, piercing holes in the heavens with spire like branches. I stand in this cathedral where moss and fern congregate, where a choir of songb...
Posted by Sandra on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:23:00 PST

The Lake

It was as if it had happened only yesterday; the memory of it all is still so fresh in my mind. The sun had scattered its diamonds on the surface of the lake and the hills beyond shimmered in t...
Posted by Sandra on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:30:00 PST

Nature's Finger Tips

Nothing of me moves except for the occasional twitch of a finger. My half closed lids reveal only blood cancelling out the ocean blue of my iris. There is no creaking of the mattress, no ...
Posted by Sandra on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:42:00 PST

Going Back Part 2

I made my way back into the hallway and took hold of the banister, its wood now bowed and shiny with age. Slowly I climbed the steep narrow staircase remembering every creek and snap that went...
Posted by Sandra on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:08:00 PST

Going back

It had been some years since I had visited the old place but going back reminded me of exactly who I am and what had made me. Walking to the house of my childhood I was overwhelmed by t...
Posted by Sandra on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:17:00 PST