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As if in slow motion, people roared – they cheered – celebrating with mad delight; glasses raised, eyes ablaze with…

Eternity

He reclined with naturally graceful poise upon the springy sofa and watched memories being made. Surrounding him, circling him as…

Opera Mystique

There was once a man whom no one knew. He lived in a cottage on a quiet, quaint and quintessentially…

Surf

The current flowed beneath her surfboard like electricity surging into a plug-socket. The waves were powerful; so too was the…

Psyche

Her succulent little toes curling in the sand, she stood before him reverently – almost bowed – slender of body…

The Sovad Hotel

Numerous social circles saw it as the last remaining vestige of the old world, like a lost city, a sanctuary…

Klementine (A Portrait)

Quiet desperation filled the room, like the scent of lavender perfume in the bridal suite of a royal chateau. This…

Commute

The wheels of the train revolved beneath them in perpetually accelerating cycles. They roared and rumbled through a vast labyrinth-like…

In Memoria

There were frozen spiderwebs in the frosty morning, touched with dew like a shiny gloss. There was golden sunlight on…

Visions of a Rural Dawn

At dawn the tall trees cast long shadows over the meadow, like silhouette angels or spirits in the early morning…

A Dazzling Daze

I. They were dazed, nay sozzled; smiling, safely within serenity. A warm fuzzy glow absorbed them in its blanket of…

Edenesque

Her eyes blazed a bright sparkling blue, like a shallow sea shore. Her heart was wild and free; her soul…
White Album

White Album

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The Sailor

His hands were coarse, his stubble rugged and manly, his lips hardened from enduring long nights of biting wind in…

Mojave: Desert Solace

Was there once a hymn or poem or painting so achingly poignant, so piercingly beautiful, so breathtakingly, awe-inspiringly divine –…

Himalayan Pilgrimage

Roving a tranquil alpine gorge,Past ancient relics and sacred artefacts,I saw jagged jutting lumps of glacial ice,And gigantic formations of…

Visions of Psyche

I saw an oracle bathing in ancient moonlight,Her tender naked body,Gracefully cloaked in flowing silk garments – I saw sparks…

Opium Den

I heard vintage vinyl radiating pulses of soothing hymnal lullabies,Delicate piano tinkles and sonorous saxophone,Winding through a labyrinth of exquisitely…

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Riverbank

I saw a vibrant purple haze lay sensually upon the mountainous horizon,Streaks of technicolour violet lights and maroon clouds streaming…

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Apocalypse

I saw a hellish waterfall of scolding molten lava,Titanic tectonic plates violently tearing apart,Loose rubble tumbling down into the abyss,Earth-shaking…

Joseline (Part II) - A Study in Despair

The silence seemed to devour her, like an invisible force pressing upon her from every conceivable angle, crushing her. The…

Joseline (Part I) – Before the Fall

She had a jolly, tender face, her ruddy red cheeks the hue of warm pinkish-purple blush, matching the shade of…

Ode to a Fantasy

Oh, how I wish I couldn’t see this tragically bleak graveyard of derelict industrial warehouses and factories, once heaving with…

Little Jean

As a young boy in the olden days, his hair was fine as silk and white as snow, bleached by…

Lonesome Limousine Ride

Behind the tinted windows of a slender stretched limousine, he skulks; his scornful stare shielded behind dark horn-rimmed sunglasses and…

Cave Dwellers

Ephemeral jangling whispers creeping strangely through their mystical minds,I saw luminous beams of pale starlight twinkling down upon the sand-swept…

Golgotha

I saw a holy blade,Glistening in the dusk,Sacred howls swirling through the open window,Souls erupting into flame,The cast iron suit…

Subterranean Void

I saw a malevolent cloud of despair,Hovering above her fiery halo,Like a silent sense of discontent,Tormenting her mysterious mind through…

Ophelia at Dawn

At dawn she awoke,Shivering below eternity as the ancient bells of time resound,Peering through distant memories at the tormenting glow…

The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory

I saw the throbbing neon glow of garish white lights,Illuminating her gaunt feverish face,Repulsively anaemic and pale,Repugnantly vacant and ghostly,Beads…
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Literature

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Carnivorous Feast

I saw heartless fools voraciously devouring the mangled flesh of mercilessly slaughtered lambs,Their malevolent greedy eyes prowling the blood-stained dining…

Lonesome Dawn

To know myself,To look upon my wretched blood-spattered pillow,Weeping for the lost innocence of pure childhood fantasy,The agonising howls of…

Bipolar Prophecy

I saw luminous turquoise lanterns floating through the soft air,Into a vast array of fluffy white clouds above,As peaceful to…

Lament

Wailing ambulance sirens writhing in the gloomy darkness,Tortured rubber of screeching wheels birthing monstrous plumes of smoke,Desolate roadkill strewn callously…

Desert Mirage

My warped mind thrust into a crucible of psychosis and hallucination,I saw a desolate wasteland mired in horror,A billion specks…

Willow Grove

I saw a magical grove of ethereal willow trees and peculiar lotus petals,The rich aroma of ancient maple leaves and…

Metamorphosis

I saw a crazed porcupine,Ramble strangely down the jagged path,Like a torrent of unyielding fury,Through the lamp-lit alleyways of Nirvana,Mercilessly…

Dreamers

A wistful calm fell upon the peaceful rippling lake,Besides which I lay with joyous chanting fairy spirits,Sparks of shimmering stardust…

The Lighthouse

I saw two tortured tormented souls discarded upon a solemn island,Their weary lungs heaving with cancerous tumours,Seeping malevolent fibrous roots…

Occult Ceremony

Wandering the candlelit tunnels of my mind one lonesome wintry night,I saw the ceremonial execution of a nomadic martyred mystic…

Gothic Nightmare

Plunged into a chasm of horrific visions,A cursed crucible of hell,Flooded with the eternal tears of mortal terror,I saw a…

Magical Forest

I. Brooding alone by the autumnal riverside,Captivated by the pulsating electric midnight wilderness,Intoxicated by the strange radiant desolation of existence,I…

Glass Temple

The spectral glass temple,Lay withering atop the sorrowful plane,Amongst the gnarled knotted roots of dying trees,And tortured stones of a…

Mandala

I saw sacred glowing orbs of profound ethereal beauty,A translucent waterfall of scintillating diamonds,Billowing tongues of flame infused with a…

Encaged

From deep within a dusty hovel,My mind encaged,I peer through the wooden slats of my skull,At the horrific radiance of…

Cosmic Cemetery

I saw dark clouds,Long brewing in his sad mind,Like a biblical storm rising from the depths of his haunted psyche,Bringing…

Horror

Trapped in harrowing restless nights,Caught and crucified within the horrors,I saw such malice and unfathomable malevolence,Crude ugliness and callous hatred,Woeful…

Awoken

I saw opulent penthouse lofts atop looming dystopian skyscrapers,And lavish crystal cabinets brimming with luxurious poisons – I saw monstrous…

Cosmos

A fog of corrosive sparkling stardust descending upon the technicolour cosmos,I saw dying stars smouldering with their final fatal sparks…
Within Youth

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A Long Night

It’s just gone midnight and here I sit in the semi-silence of my dead grandmother’s old bedroom, having moved in…

Grave Realisations

It is a terribly sad moment in one’s life, when they realise the innocence of their childhood is lost forever.…

Light versus Dark

Home again. Just out of rehab. I feel my soul is still tethered to the darkness. I feel it tug…

Solemn News

Gran has passed. Sasha, my therapist in rehab, took me upstairs. As we sat down in a private meeting room,…

Anorexia Nervosa

Whilst I was on the phone earlier today, in the lounge, a woman with long emaciated limbs and an achingly…

Suburban Labyrinth

I felt very raw and vulnerable this morning, woken violently by the shrill cry of grating iron machinery rupturing the…

A Beautiful Morning

Fragments of forgotten dreams and memories drift through my mind, like a cloud of revolving gyroscopes, bewitching my consciousness and…

A Beautiful Dream

I had a dream, a madness-imbued dream of a utopian fantasy. It was thus: I saw lily pads floating on…

Turning Tides

The sheets of ice upon which I solemnly prance – that separate me from the freezing oceans of despair below…

The Stuff of Dreams, Not Yet Dreams

Be it the night, be it a dream, be it the days of lonesome wandering or the nightmares of reality,…

Ominous Prophecy

On the train back to London, I notice a sinister sinking feeling in my gut, as if my instinctual and…

Meditation in Yellow

We are hurtling irrevocably into modernity. To look upon the date written above this journal entry is strange and seemingly…

Sunday Morning

Sunday morning in London, families walk past my window dressed up in warm puffy coats and scarves and hats, holding…

Nightmares, Hallucinations & Lunacy

The days continue to blur in a wild mass of crashing images, a kaleidoscope of haunted remembrances, a torrential downpour…

An Ugly Bar, A Sinister Dream

At this present moment I feel strange, as if a dark euphoria has descended upon me and dialled my perceptive…

Daydreaming of Love

It’s evening, the hot afternoon sun has cooled to a warm and sublime sunset, the kind of image you’d see…

A Gorgeous Island Bay

This morning we decided to stay where we are, on our mystical voyage around the Greek islands by sailboat. It’s…

Ladies of the Night

The day is overcast and filled with the undeniable essence of doom, as if it were the setting of a…

Petrifying Nightmare

Last night strange and twisted dreams cascaded down upon me, like a whirlwind of surreal madness and visceral hallucinatory imagery…

Psychosis

The morning drifted by gently and relatively uneventfully, until I walked by the sea with my toes curling to feel…

Peculiar Visions

As we drove down the winding coastal road, I could hear the ghost of innocent Ti Jean in my ear,…

Dancing on Thin Ice

It’s around two o’clock in the afternoon and I’m sitting in a bar on the high street, in the outside…

A Dream Within A Dream

Last night I had another dream within a dream. In the first layer of dreaming, I had another dream and…

A Reverie in Athens

We flew into Athens late last night, drove past the vast pulsating electrical matrix of streetlights, that exude their fuzzy…

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