Today you will dream in Russian and wake with the smell of vanilla. As you catch yourself singing Motley Crue songs, you will taste the menthol cigarettes of your teens. You will swim in nostalgia and for once this will make you laugh with your eyes and your mouth. You will desire red fruit for lunch and lick the juice that runs across your palms like blood. You will allow people to sit next to you on the tram without physically recoiling. Others will gravitate to your uncharacteristic desire to experiment, and you will find yourself ordering coffees you can’t pronounce. Words will flow from your fingertips and pour onto the page in a torrent of black ink. You will tie your hair in a knot secured with cinnamon sticks and wear cherry red lipstick so bright that strangers stare. You will remember the taste of his fingers and smile gently. You will read Nietzsche with a German dictionary on your lap and sit for an hour without moving as the gloaming spills gold over your back yard. You will drink tequila in brandy balloons and email people you’ve never met in countries you can’t spell. You will walk through your house wearing just your skin and its etchings, and not flinch as you glide past the windows. You will understand that this Winter Solstice heralds the new cycle, and you will tattoo this on your flesh in spirals of black and red, forever spinning you between your past, future, and your ever glorious present. And as night-time coils around your bed, you will dream in Russian again.
LisaG, 9 months ago
Words so exquisite, they drip with life energy that illuminates my soul…
I sit her in awe…..tantalised and fearful at the serendipitous moment our paths crossed…
Chris White, 9 months ago
Mmm, prose that sparkles and flickers as it pours forth. Nice.
Jessica Tremp, 9 months ago
why, now that is something to relive and look forward to again…
Anne van Alkemade
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9 months ago
beautiful, Bell. Will you write Aquarius please?
Suzanne German, 9 months ago
Scorpio – so glad I stumbled on this – love the intensity and the wildness under every line – controlled and wild and great stuff!!!
especially love this line:-
”...You will remember the taste of his fingers and smile gently…”
mmm…nice thought for the day :)
bellmusker, 9 months ago
So, so lovely to log on and find these wonderful messages. Thank you all!
Sweet Lisa – I always marvel at your words, so to hear you praise mine fills me with joy.
Chris – I really felt the words pour forth; so glad you find them sparkling.
Jess – your comments on my writing always, always make me smile.
Anne – I will muse on Aquarius and see what comes out!
Suzanne – the line that resonated with you the most was the one that holds the most darkness for me. If you read my ‘gorgon’ story, you’ll see that I’m not yet at the stage where I can smile gently at such memories…...but that’s the essence behind this piece: it is, after all, a prediction. I only pray that I get there.
Thank you all again.
Suzanne German, 9 months ago
bellmusker – i’ll have to go and read ‘gorgon’ story now….and will post there,,,,,bye for now xs
marieancolie, 9 months ago
so many messages come through your writing.
Difficult for me to express my feelings in a language that’s not my native.. but
intense meanings and feelings anyway.
Kristy Lee, 8 months ago
Mmmm…delectable.
I want to close my eyes and have someone read this to me..it’s just so scrumptious.
Damian, 8 months ago
Every time I’ve looked at this I’ve loved the opening line! It feels so gorgeously random. So many wonderful ideas! And Kristy’s comment sounds like a great idea too :)
Damian, 8 months ago
Also makes me think what Pisces would look like…
bellmusker, 8 months ago
Thanks so much Marieancolie, the lovely Miss Kristy, and Damian, whose comments I always appreciate! I’ve actually had a few requests for other starsigns, so maybe that will come? As for having it read out – on the Red Bubble trip to Lorne last weekend, Melissa Vowell read some of my pieces aloud, and it was an amazing experience.
A few of us have actually been considering starting a writing group to meet up each week or two, and workshop, read our pieces aloud etc. Anyone interested?
bicozikan, 7 months ago
Wow. That’s amazing!
Quite a thorough horoscope :)
Rusty Woodward..., 7 months ago
Wonderful rhythms and movement.. Memories wrapped in a flowing river of words.
RuthFroehlinger, 6 months ago
Wow. I love this piece of work.
Silvia Manuela, 6 months ago
This is a great read, bellmusker!
bellmusker, 6 months ago
It’s so lovely to log in and see that people have appreciated your words…thank you all so much. This is the most favourited out of all my pieces….I’m not sure just why it strikes a chord with people, but I sure do appreciate it!
Liesl Yvette W..., 5 months ago
This is just goooooorgeeeeeooooouuuuusssssss!
what beautiful imagery.
frangipangi, 5 months ago
Just plain great mastery of words. thank you bellmusker, master wordsmith
Stephen Loomes, 4 months ago
words got you the wound and will get you better…Jim Morrison
sparklydina, 4 months ago
this is so, so beautiful….x
red addiction, 4 months ago
I really liked this. Quite a bit of this, I can relate too. I wanted to read more.
LindsayWalton, 4 months ago
If you ever put together a calendar I’m buying it. What is libra’s day looking like? :) You’ve written a great piece.
Michelle Boyer, 4 months ago
Fantastic work- love how it flows
Davina, 3 months ago
Absolutely and completely hypnotizing, like a spiral itself, that I follow with my eyes, my mind and my smile. I love this. Thank you.
bellmusker, 3 months ago
Thank you everyone for your lovely comments! It means so much to me.
KEITH R. WILL..., 3 months ago
this is a glimpse of u i truly like thanks
bellmusker in reply to KEITH R. WILLIAMS’s comment, 3 months ago
You’re welcome! The more I read this, the more I realise how much it does reveal about me…right down to the Motley Crue songs. Oops….
Eric Greiff, 3 months ago
I love the circle.
davoid, 3 months ago
I like this kind of writing. It keeps flowing and changing and offering impressions and feelings.
It also has a personal feel which I like, like watching someone’s mind as it chugs away.
I liked the ‘dreaming in Russian’. I only speak English so it fascinates me to imagine having some other languages for dreaming, singing, explaining, or thinking. I also find the dream state fascinating. ‘Waking Life’ is a very good existential film with great animation if anyone is interested in this stuff like me.
Thanks for the piece Bell.
Laurie McClave, 2 months ago
I think I am in love! So sweet the thoughts that are on the page and so visual, lovin that visual, this and the wrists are my favey favs!
SoxyFleming, about 1 month ago
bell I think I’m becoming a fan. I think this could have been longer, just a bit, a few more lines to enjoy, a few more new and experimental things for this breaking out soul. The old and the new, just a bit more of each because I’ve enjoyed what’s here and I’d just enjoy more of it!
bellmusker in reply to SoxyFleming’s comment, about 1 month ago
Thanks Soxy; I’m really appreciating your comments as you wade through my work! This was, until ‘songs of spine & salt’, my most favourited work, and it’s one of my personal favourites too. I’m actually reworking it to send it into a publisher, and am adding several strands to weave into the whole.
When I wrote it, those few changes were all that I felt capable of embracing at the time. Now, nine months on, there are indeed more to be added. I’m getting braver and braver all the time!
SoxyFleming, about 1 month ago
I can understand that. There are things which only time brings. It all works its way around until it’s ready to appear and that sort of thing must not be forced. Be brave. I’m sure you have another side to brave but I think brave suits you.
janetmary, about 1 month ago
love this piece – specially love this ‘You will walk through your house wearing just your skin and its etchings…’ yes send in to publisher – is great xjm
bellmusker in reply to janetmary’s comment, about 1 month ago
Such lovely words – thank you! I’ve learned to walk through my house without flinching, and I do believe it’s damn near a saunter now. Feels wonderful!
janetmary, about 1 month ago
make me smile – a saunter sounds great xjm
Jo O'Brien
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about 1 month ago
x
butchart, 24 days ago
belle… your imagery is just astounding,,,, your words flow like brightly colored oils across the canvas of the page…........ if a painting could be read… it would sound just like this…....... what a treasure…...... thank you….........b
Miri, 11 days ago
wonderful flowing piece, such great imagery….a series of fantastic impressions just scooted through my head…coffee’s you can’t pronounce, countires you can’t spell…just great :-)
bellmusker in reply to Miri’s comment, 11 days ago
Thank you, I really appreciate it! Damn those coffees I can’t pronounce….