scorpio

bellmusker
Author: bellmusker
Word Count: 269
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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

    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

    Chris White, 9 months ago

    Mmm, prose that sparkles and flickers as it pours forth. Nice.

  • Jessica Tremp

    Jessica Tremp, 9 months ago

    why, now that is something to relive and look forward to again…

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van AlkemadeWordsmith, 9 months ago

    beautiful, Bell. Will you write Aquarius please?

  • Suzanne German

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Damian, 8 months ago

    Also makes me think what Pisces would look like…

  • bellmusker

    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

    bicozikan, 7 months ago

    Wow. That’s amazing!
    Quite a thorough horoscope :)

  • Rusty Woodward Gladdish

    Rusty Woodward..., 7 months ago

    Wonderful rhythms and movement.. Memories wrapped in a flowing river of words.

  • RuthFroehlinger

    RuthFroehlinger, 6 months ago

    Wow. I love this piece of work.

  • Silvia Manuela

    Silvia Manuela, 6 months ago

    This is a great read, bellmusker!

  • 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 Wilson

    Liesl Yvette W..., 5 months ago

    This is just goooooorgeeeeeooooouuuuusssssss!
    what beautiful imagery.

  • frangipangi

    frangipangi, 5 months ago

    Just plain great mastery of words. thank you bellmusker, master wordsmith

  • Stephen Loomes

    Stephen Loomes, 4 months ago

    words got you the wound and will get you better…Jim Morrison

  • sparklydina

    sparklydina, 4 months ago

    this is so, so beautiful….x

  • red addiction

    red addiction, 4 months ago

    I really liked this. Quite a bit of this, I can relate too. I wanted to read more.

  • LindsayWalton

    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

    Michelle Boyer, 4 months ago

    Fantastic work- love how it flows

  • Davina

    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

    bellmusker, 3 months ago

    Thank you everyone for your lovely comments! It means so much to me.

  • KEITH  R. WILLIAMS

    KEITH R. WILL..., 3 months ago

    this is a glimpse of u i truly like thanks

  • bellmusker

    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

    Eric Greiff, 3 months ago

    I love the circle.

  • davoid

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    janetmary, about 1 month ago

    make me smile – a saunter sounds great xjm

  • Jo O'Brien

    Jo O'Briencommunity ambassador, about 1 month ago

    x

  • butchart

    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

    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

    bellmusker in reply to Miri’s comment, 11 days ago

    Thank you, I really appreciate it! Damn those coffees I can’t pronounce….

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