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