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betsy

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About Me



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My Interests



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I'd like to meet:


Anyone with the soul of a poet and the vision of an artist, or is that the soul of an artist and the vision of a poet? Anyone creative will do, regardless of how you choose to express that creativity.

"Fake It For Never" by Ryan Higa. Check out his work at http://www.gruntledfunk.com

Music:

Gotta love it all but my favorites are The Beatles, Rod Stewart/The Faces, Counting Crows, Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, David Bowie, Tom Petty, Amanda Marshall, Annie Lennox, Holly Golightly, Billie Holiday and MARE'KA.

Movies:

Until The End of the World, The Lover, The Gift, Rosemary's Baby, The Graduate, and any old campy horror flick, especially if Vincent Price is in it.

Heroes:

"From the Goose to the Girl" By Jane Hammond
I am inspired by the artwork and creativity of Frida Kahlo, Peter Max, Lesley Dill, Jane Hammond,Teesha Moore, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Peter Blake, Elizabeth Peyton, Yoko Ono, Cora Yee, Yayoi Kusama, and Ryan Higa.

My Blog

Shadows

  Below the surface of my mind You walk among forgotten thoughts I see only shadows And the vagueness of your echo At times I recall The way your voice cut through me Like a sharp wire Or th...
Posted by betsy on Sun, 20 May 2007 12:53:00 PST

The Taste

  With a rough tongue I taste you in my sleep As I watch dreams of fragrant longing Float to the surface From beneath a veil of swirled lace. All the days of years gone by Create a false hunger F...
Posted by betsy on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:48:00 PST

The Void

  In the void I see you reaching out to me Only to feel the chill As you grasp for her I guess she feeds your spirit In ways I do not Yet within me lies your true home And a destiny meant to be o...
Posted by betsy on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:21:00 PST

Trust

Trust   I've scraped my soul across the pavement only to watch it bleed and I've felt a thousand tiny splinters slip deep inside of me I echo through the fog of night like distant shatt...
Posted by betsy on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:56:00 PST

For my literary friends

I found a stack of poems I had written a lifetime ago while I was in school.  I guess I was a little morose back then...... A steady diet of tension does not feed love well and, at last, like age...
Posted by betsy on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:11:00 PST