Gypsy

Playing the Spanish guitar

His soft black hair flying in the wind

Mad Eyes.

By: Laura Parker

Music and Writing

The Nerve

“You cannot write unless it is truthful and you have an emotional connection.” Howard Shore

Emily Bronte

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte

Emily Dickinson The Master

He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,

Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow

Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool,–
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.

When winds take Forests in their Paws–
The Universe is still.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed

Photo:By Laura Parker

I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!

Inebriate of air am I,

And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.

When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove’s door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!

Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,

To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun!

Emily Dickinson

The Sound of Writing

“Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work…Next comes melody-which, in literature, means the appropriate arrangement of the words to match the rhythm..Next is harmony-the internal mental sounds that support the words..Then comes free improvisation..All I have to do is get into the flow. Finally comes your “performance” and feeling you have succeeded in reaching a place that is new and meaningful. And if it goes well, you get to share that sense of elevation with your readers (your audience).” Murakami (Griffith, 2009).