Experiment

I've been getting so frustrated not being able to draw online. Since my Surface broke down and I had to get a phone without an S pen, I've increasingly missed having a device to draw on.

Yesterday, I checked the Surface Pro 4 - still broken - wouldn't hold charge. Gave up.

Bought Samsung Plus (hasn't arrived yet).

Today - Surface miraculously recovered (although am still holding my breath), and then I thought I'd have a look on this wonderful little workhorse of an Asus that I love so much but that had announced that it didn't support drawing. And look! I could use Sketchpad with trackpad and fingers. Don't know what I'm doing with it and miss Freshpaint, but still - just marvellous.

So now I've got an embarrassment of computers...... lucky me.

Eyes by Chuma Nwokolo Jnr

[Metamorphosis 2 - Aja Gap]

Eyes
(Inspired by Metamorphosis 2, a painting by Angie Phillip)

you stare astounded at my own astonished eyes.
for once, at last, we see.
soon, to feuds and warring clans,
may come this antidote more radical than guns,
more mind-blowing than drugs,
more harrowing,
truly more harrowing - and

yet

nothing more drastic than truly to see the enemy
and his blood; simply to look unblinkingly -
not through our usual black-and-white filters -
but to stare astounded. to stare, and stare until
the truth of sight becomes a mirror to our soul.
until we feel the mettle of his blues,
read his face’s panoply of hues,
his draining pools of dreams, and the
running
streaks of tears and rust…

so that when his blood
comes spurting redly at our thrust
we cannot look
away. no. and we will own his pain as

well

©Chuma Nwokolo, Jr. (2008)


Have a look: www.blogs.african-writing.com/chuma

Always Becoming

Broken tooth waiting for dentist's call mixes into the morning. A double blue today with sunshine.

Have submitted Girl in the Lion's Den - imperfectly - to 10 agents although it might not have reached two of them (wrong method/ lost formatting). Never mind. It will have to do. Am getting back to novel number 2 - The Man from Another Country. I'm getting back into writing 11 year old Dani and Esme in her late 20's. There were no broken teeth in that era. Body taken for granted. But other problems to face. Who was it said that we should love the problems?

Red Woman

Frustration - submitted my novel on agent's contact form and formatting lost! Changed query letter each time for various agents and included mistakes. Go to pieces when submitting novel. Must just do it and then get on with the next one.

Misty morning

Haven't posted for about three years! Am split three ways - pictures (my website and this blog), music reverbnation) and writing. Wondering whether to pay a large sum of money to ipower to renew the hosting plan I've just cancelled or try to do it all with blogs.
It's a misty morning...

Have cancelled English Study Direct. After more than 15 years, it feels like stepping into a new life, living without it. But suppose stepping into a new life has to happen every so often.