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Arktoi by PacificSelkie, literature

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Arktoi

The blushing Apollo sleeps under cedars Piled up into dream-bower bushels, so near A little stone cast by a little hand Might slingshot into heaven's atmosphere From some high peak, untouchable and pale Where Sister moonlight's maids-at-arms Surveil all secret passages and green. We are the wild, her ironwood-sworn-- Not like the bay leaves, golden with his love, The nebulas of heliotrope That bloom and spiral on his every breath-- But proud and cool as queens of carven stone. Still we are woman-shaped, and mapped with blood That pulses from a doe's warm-racing heart When stags are belling in the fiery dawn We beat the trails that cut a sun

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Uncharted

we dragged a boat down to the shore one morning in the fall the sky was blue with promises and we had heard the call of far-off lands that filled our sails with warm and welcome wind our compass was unfailing and our courage had no end at night upon the open deck we sang without a care two invincible believers in the voyage that we shared I watched the constellations spinning silent in the sky We knew the stars by heart and which were best to travel by and on a happy ship of fools what watches need be kept? the bells hung cold and silent and we drifted as we slept til in the dawn, the fickle sky had shaken out her hair t

The Vigil by PacificSelkie, literature

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The Vigil

Winter is waning - the water is rising. Low sit the longships, laden for war. Far from these fjords there are fortunes unconquered- The sea-steeds need strong men to stand at the oar. They hail to a hornblast hewing the dawn's breath First of the firstborn, but fresh in their years Bold sons of battle; their brows set in steel, Gleaming with greed for the glutting of spears. Raucous and ready, they rush to the shoreline, Mirth is among them, and no mortal dread Will set on their spirit, whose summer is shadowless, Boys yet unblooded, so brazen at death. Then helm-clanging hushes; they hold back together Wave of war-cries falls to

Your Mocking Mouth by PacificSelkie, literature

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Your Mocking Mouth

I know that you’re no good for me That is the standard alibi I only love the memory Of moments that have passed me by That kiss that I could never get Sitting in the corner of your mocking mouth As I turned and rode away On a wave of fortune swiftly heading south But somehow you have followed me I find you in the dead of night Uncovered with my honesty A wrong that we will never right That place that I can never reach Speaking from a corner of my hungry heart You can laugh at me from there You’re the jester, I’m the fool, I know my part But you must know I loved you then Could never tell you how Perhaps I didn

Seaborne by PacificSelkie, literature

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Seaborne

In the beginning My maker made me with a keen eye for perfection A pleasing figure A smooth face and a crystalline reflection I was beautiful But the years have not been kind A broken vessel Out of hand is out of mind Now I am seaborne I am time worn A bit of glass beneath a century of waves And so I gleam forth From this cold shore Until the day a pair of searching hands Find something they can save And so I drifted Sometimes a lonely sailor looked to me for answers But found no message I was a bottle on the sea, a hollow dancer I was beautiful But the years have made me small A broken vessel Can’t help anyone at a

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Epistles of Tinkerbell, pt. 1 by PacificSelkie, literature

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Epistles of Tinkerbell, pt. 1

I. When they gave out roles for this old-fashioned, tragic passion play, I should've stood up faster, but the stardust passed me by and by I settled for the lower stratal haunts of wayward sky— face washed with mourning dew, I sprouted wings that flew just far enough to hit another wall and then to crawl across the warm familiar fabric of goodbye. II. If you could see me here tonight, as bright as every second star combined, the lines of your dismissal etching beauty everlasting in my eyes, what would you say? You see, I stitched a gown that suits me, out of every resolutely stamped-out tear, and every thread of every fear

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Artist // Professional // Varied

Mar 5
United States
Deviant for 19 years
www.summerrussell.com
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Current Residence: Fort Worth, TX
Favourite style of art: Pre-Raphaelite, naturally!
Personal Quote: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Currently: William Bouguereau

Favourite Movies

The Lion In Winter

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Led Zeppelin

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W. B. Yeats

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napkins; receipts; crumpled notebook paper; quill & parchment; keyboard; guitars

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PacificSelkie

Nov 7, 2007

Free Art Exchange/Giveaway/Thingy

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The first 10 people who comment on this journal will get a piece of art from me, free (in my case, a poem or a song... unless there's a short story request I can reaaally work with.) However, in return, you must offer 10 free pieces of art, in your chosen medium, in your own journal. Rules: No rules! Just give me a description of the kind of song/poem you would like.  It can be a specific form, mood, topic, or whatever you want.  I will not start work on the piece until I see this posted in your own journal. Let's get these muses rolling. :D 1. ~Angeldess (https://www.deviantart.com/angeldess) - harp song 2. :iconatticus-CSH: - Englyn Milwr

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PacificSelkie

Jul 25, 2007

I'm back. I hope.

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We were without The Internets again for about two months, and in that time I haven't really been able to visit DA.  477 unviewed deviations = no thank you ma'am.  I'm gonna have to start from scratch. But in any case, it's good to have my intercrack again, I hope it lasts, and--for those of you who haven't heard yet--I just got engaged.  Hooray!

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PacificSelkie

Oct 10, 2006

Mlyargh.

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I currently have no internet access from home, and I've been llimited to checking DA from work for the past couple of weeks.  Due to the nature of the submissions of most of my friends, this means there is a LOT of work I haven't been able to look at yet. I hope I can remedy this soon, but until that time... I lose at the internet, again.