(Rediscovering) A Call to Conversation

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Is there a story behind your user name? Want to share it with us?
Well, there's certainly a meaning, if not a story. I sat down to make my account and, (if I'm remembering correctly), BleedingProphecies came together within a half hour or so. 'Bleeding' alludes to the way I view my poems as a process as necessary as the blood in my veins, and as much a part of me as that blood. Poetry is a lot like a blood-letting procedure for me, an effort to get the sickness out. 'Prophecies' refers to my lust for words as profound as a prophet's...something I don't believe I've achieved yet.

What can we find in your gallery?
Poetry, (which is for the most part better than your average teenage poetry?), a handful of short stories, and a couple of pictures of my face! My second account PermafrostTime is home to the majority of my photography.

Stagnant.There's a
patchwork divinity
in a stagnant girl
getting up
to run like water does
and run as a desperate prayer
and know
that in running
she might stop chasing.    Whiskey Woman.I only wish
it weren't so easy
to quit me.
That I was more
of a nicotine girl
lighting lungs
with darkness,
sending nerves
into nervous frenzies
when people finally
got their fix.
Or maybe even a whiskey woman
in a private booth,
the crutch of a broken man
with nothing left
but the promise
of inebriated peace,
of paradise found
at the bottom
of bottles.
But substances
have substance,
and then there's me.

What piece in your gallery was the hardest for you to write? Why? 
Ooooh, good question... I'm going with kissed You...She calls herself unlucky,
assures me
She's
nothing special,
nothing new,
She says She's not pretty,
but She got to kiss You
She got to kiss You
got to kiss You
kissed You...
i've thought of nothing else
since the day i met You.
She doesn't understand
what She's gotten to do
what She's gotten from You
for You
i would do
any number of
unsavory things
She got to kiss You
got to kiss You
kissed You... . This is one of the realest and rawest things I have ever written, and I was still in such a dark place whilst writing. Even reading it now...it hurts.

What is one type of poem you WISH you could write better? (i.e. sonnets, haiku, villanelles, etc.)
Any sort of poem that rhymes. My brain doesn't like to follow rhyme schemes naturally, and the words often feel shoved together when I try to sculpt pieces to rhyme afterwards.

If you could spend one week inside a book, what book would you pick, who would you spend the week with, and what would you do?
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern...I think...yes. I would spend the week with the twins, Poppet and Widget, just traveling with the circus, marveling at all the magic around me, dressing in the fabulous black, white, and red, and perhaps even performing an act of my own.

Pick a few of your LEAST favorite words. What are they? If they had a distinct flavor/scent/texture, what would they be?
I'm cringing whilst typing these, but....panties, phlegm, rural, squelch, dollop, supple, frankly, crotch, crotchety, frothy....I think that's it. Their flavor? Garbage juice that's been sitting out through all 4 seasons for 12 years.

Do you have any unusual or unique writing habits? (i.e. yo-yoing when you get stuck on a plot point; spinning in your chair when thinking about character traits; etc.)
I write nearly all of my poetry in big bursts, filling a sheet of notebook paper. When I finish one poem, I turn the paper so the poems are in all different directions. There's notebook pages like that in the strangest places. Just, everywhere.

Who are some of your favorite characters and why do you enjoy them so much?
Sirius Black from the Harry Potter series, Sweeney Todd from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alaska Young from Looking for Alaska, and loads of others. I think my fascination with fictional people lies in the pain they have felt and the places it took them, less so in their little quirks and habits. I've such respect for people who can create another person and make me forget they were created by a person....if that makes sense.

What do you look for in a favorite piece of writing (from other deviants) on dA? What about a favorite artwork?
In both writings and artwork...I am looking for my emotions to be aroused. I am looking for a feeling I didn't have to appear because of something that came from someone else's head. If you can do that...you've a fan in me.

Daffodil.You brought her yellows and blacks
up to your nose
and breathed deep
and a smile played
at your lips.
You pressed her petals
between the pages
of a musty dog-eared
bedtime story
from your boyhood,
You savored her colors
long into the fall.
You grasped me gravely,
extracted me
from where I stood,
You reminded me that
the water
and your heart
were for her.
And to ask for any more
would be
unforgivable greed:
after all,
she's a daffodil,
I'm just a weed.    Time.I'm sick of love and
sicker still
of the moth-eaten
calendars
and mocking clocks
counting up the time
between us.

Show us a few of your most recent ed pieces and tell us a little about why you like them?
AcceptanceI spent years loving a memory because I was afraid to call it that. ; I have been there and this piece tore me out of the present and threw me back. Such power...
:thumb446291723: ; the imagery and rawness of her poetry is always shocking. She's certainly one of my favorites.
:thumb445209814: ; this is love in a whole new fashion. That's all I have to say about that...

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Thank you, BleedingProphecies, for speaking with me today! I had fun getting to know you better!

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