Wednesday, January 04, 2012

A Messy Book of Days

To begin this year of messy I'm loosely following this year-long, online art experiment called 2012 Book of Days. The woman who is doing this huge outpouring of creativity is Effy Wild and her website's tag line is "flinging glitter and taking names." Sound messy enough?! So far it has been much, much fun beginning the project with people from all over the world - and did I mention it was free??

I'm beginning to be able to put 2011 away. I realized while I was working on my Book of Days journal cover that getting the new job in August might have saved my life - at least my spiritual being. I'm feeling a little of the old creative joy returning.

Here is the cover of my new journal. {this whole are journaling thing is completely new to me, so be kind!} I took an old hymnal – how's that for symbolic – and am remaking it into something else, while still allowing the old notes to shine through.

The poem on the front is "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?

1 comment:

Effy said...

Totally gorgeous! I love the amber light in your blog, too! Beautiful colour choices! xo