Hey, so today is National Poetry Day. To support this I’ve decided to post up a poem that I wrote a few months back now. I hope it’s okay, please let me know what you think of it!
Taken
Close the door on the icy screams of your beloved, And throw away the frozen glow that broke your heart in two, Shivers trickle through your veins and outcast your humbled thoughts, Lost feelings whirl around seeking pleasure in finding you. For once you’re not a child anymore, but an entity thrown into the mass of broken souls, Fiercely fighting to survive, your shadow sinks into the ground. Alone and wilted on the floor of your lovers house, surrounded by rose petals and time; Time that seeks upon you like an unwanted virtue then takes you at your best, Changing minds and bodies until we join our familiar shadows in the ground. Does afterlife even exist? We can only be sure of the one we’re living now, And even this is full of fakery and wicked spells that charm you towards hell. Fire blood and anguish carves the world joined with hope, love and ambition. We see only what we want and act on what pleases us, what pleases you. Together in a unity we stand alone, after all we are mammals in this world That destroy other creatures searching for light and all for what? In the end we will become the earth around us, falling from the sky in tiny droplets, Reborn into an unknown world, not the one we see now. Forever changing, Forever moving. Yet death is just a step away. Abigail Gillibrand
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Sat in a free again. I have nothing to de
except read The Great Gatsby and maybe learn some more spellings. Though I
really cannot be bothered with that. Instead we are sat throwing paper balls in
our friend’s direction. It’s a fun game. And by the way, I’m sat next to the
most amazing person in the world ;) (Yeah, she told me to put that) but she is
pretty amazing!!!
If you’ve been following my tweets you’ll
know that Woodnote now has its own blog and the next issue will be out November
time.It’ll feature Clint Boon, Tim
Burgess, Tom Caulfield a review from Suicide Party’s front man, Joey Ackland,
and reviews on the Bingley Fest and Tim Peaks diner at Kendal Calling. An ace
issue to end the year!
Check out its blog here: www.woodnotemagazine.blogspot.com
It’s also my mum birthday today; so, happy
birthday mum! She’s got a new bike which is lovely, but mine and my sisters
present to her is all the way in Leeds, it’s gonna be a very late Birthday
present. (Or an early Christmas present at that!)
Not much else has been going on really,
just going to and from college every day. It’s so tiring I hate setting my
alarm for 5:55am every Sunday night; is depressing! Though the lessons and the
people are ace, it’s just the bus rides and the early starts are no good!
That’s about it for now I guess. If you’d
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Okay, so I’m currently sat in a free whilst writing this – even though it will most probably be posted tonight, as I do believe blogger is blocked.
I am immensely bored with nothing to do except learn a list of spellings – but when you’ve written them out like twenty times, it gets tedious.
I have half an hour left to go and the time is going reallllll sloooww (hey, that rhymes!) anyway I’ve just received a text from my sister saying that she has got us tickets to go and see MIKA. I’m so excited, his gigs are more like shows, or were for his last album, however, his songs have gone all club like so I really don’t know what to expect.
I swear these minutes are dragging. I have REP next and the people in my class are so lovely; it shouldn’t be too much of a bad lesson. Then, this afternoon, I have the college magazine which sucks cause it’s an enrichment and is compulsory (it takes up two of my frees). But hey, it was the best of a bad bunch … I mean I could be doing rugby?
Anyway, I should really return to these spellings unfortunately … wish me luck! x
So yesterday I entered the world of college life. It’s a beautiful place full of … work and … very intimidating people, but the subjects I’ve taken themselves are actually quite alright (so far). We’ve been told to read this book called The Company of Wolves, it’s like an alternative take on Little Red Riding Hood, though very disturbing in some parts and quite gothic. I think I’m gonna like it though. My REP, Critical Thinking and History classes seem nice, it’s just my English lit and language classes that are both kind of scary; Tall men with beards. Also, I’ve noticed that almost everyone is ginger too. All these ginger guys walking around ... quite funny. And then if it’s not ginger, it’s a bleach blonde surfer hairdo - bless them!
Then you get the buses. Not my friend. They came at the right time on Tuesday, and we got to sixth around an hour early, that’s alright though … time to explore. But then today was awful. We waited half an hour (7:10am – 7:40am) and not one bus showed up. This is quite worrying as it takes around an hour to get to sixth and college starts at 8:45. Also, it was enrichments today and they opened at 8am so we all wanted to be there early to bag a place in a good subject. We ended up getting there at 8:35 and no computers were free. I managed to get a place on the college magazine eventually which is really good. It was either that or photography and no one could find photography on the list so the magazine it was.
That’s my two days summed up. It can be a lonely place, but I’ve made a friend, he is also ginger, looks kind of like Ed Sheeren but is very nice! Annnnd, he is also on the college magainze with all the same frees as me, so hopefully I can buddy up with him and his friendlings.
Other than that, not much has happened in the life of moi. I have got an interview back from Clint Boon which is amazing and will be featuring in the next Woodnote. He has drawn himself too which is rather cute so yeah, check it out in the next issue.
The picture in the paper (which made me gain like, 5stone) ... I'm the one wearing the orange jumper.
I went to see Batman, The Dark Night Rises, today. Was extremely good and I started filling up at the end; are you meant to cry at Batman? Can't say I've done much more today. Listened to a bit of New Order, I've only just started getting into them which is highly embarrassing! I should have listened to them ages ago. I mean ... I've always liked 'Blue Monday', just haven't ventured past it. Kind of like The Primitives, I've listened to 'Crash', but didn't really get deeper than that for a while.
Anyway, whilst I was on holiday, I purchased a New Order record completely blind. I played it when I got back and they're so good! So if you've been like me and casted over them, please give some of their other things a listen cause I think they're verging on being one of my favourite bands. And if you've never heard of them, listen to 'Blue Monday' or 'True Faith', class tunes! Also, do check out The Primitives, they're also ace.
Hookay, so yesterday was results day. I was so nervous and haven’t eaten/slept properly for the last few days, but everything has turned out alright! I was one of the first people in my school to receive my results and I opened the scary brown envolope with two other friends. To be honest, I didn’t expect the results I got; I thought I had done worse! I ended up getting 3 A*s, 6.5 As, 1 B and 2 Cs (one of which being in further maths?!?!?!?! And the other was our 16 week course in Psychology).
I’m so happy with what I got, and one ofmy A*s was in art which is a huuuge shock! A*s in art are unheard of, and my teacher kept saying that I wouldn’t get the grade I wanted … I mean, I guess she was half right .. I didn’t get the grade I wanted, I got far better! So yesterday was an extremely good day.
Today, I enrolled at sixth form. I’ve chosen to do REP (Religion, Ethics and Philosophy), English Lit, English Lang and History Modern, hopefully it will get me onto an English course at uni in two years. I was also in the paper today. We were asked to jump in the air with our results (which was highly embarrassing) and then were interviewed afterwards. It’s a lovely write up though, says something like ‘’Abigail Gillibrand, an aspiring Journalist got a string of As and A*s’’ … so proud of my little self!
So yeah, I’m really chuffed with the past few days, things have seemed to run very smoothly which is ace, but all these sleepless nights and early mornings have left me drained. I think it’s a hot chocolate and bed for me!
