Your Love, My Drug. Sistena Poem

 

Today I awoke and thought of your love

A feeling so strong, addiction, my drug

Your touch is soft, I need the sex

It gives me strength, give me hope

Washes over me, fills with peace

Consume my soul and turns to joy

 

Is there nothing else?  Don’t fade my joy

Yesterday I felt dimensions of love

In the quiet I was met by peace

Fumble my mind, intense, this drug

Images blur, forming, shatter the hope

Restore the special with the act of sex

 

Tomorrow, will you come?  Ravage with sex

Bring your toys and you’ll scream with joy

Grunt and thrust, inside we find hope

Tangled with you, I fall in love

Escape reason and plunge into a drug

Lying naked on you I feel true peace

 

Don’t forget all those times we found peace

The past is full of images with your sex

Remember that feeling?  It came from a drug

You smiled and laughed, and vomited with joy

I shook and cringed and screamed, in love

You promised, I swore, no more, we hope

 

Presently, we’re nude and high, veins filled with hope

Minds are gone in heaven, stained by peace

You look at me and renounce all your love

Angry, we hit one another, engaging in sex

Like puppets, we act, and lose all our joy

Nothing can help us, not even a drug

 

I find, not a needle, but your kiss is my drug

Our future, pour out my heart, congeal us I hope

The spark ignites in you a sense of true joy

Bathe in it, wash over you, bring you peace

Abstain and embrace, no longer needing sex

The only thing we need, each other and love

 

Your love, my drug

Our sex, our hope

Find peace and blossom joy

Antietam National Battlefield

Humanity screams

Feel my sting

But nature whispers for peace.

Gravestones lie

Preserving life

Under the towering trees.

Hear the cannon fire

Evil, man’s desire

Rolling fields covered in blood.

Hear the horn

Soldiers are torn

Their bodies lost in the mud.

Erect a wall

Celebrate all

Trim the hedges so neat.

Remember the fight

Loss in sight

Roots reaching the deep.

Patriotism roars!

Serve to be more

Rays of sun anoint the whole.

Mortality ends

Divinity begins

Together, music composed.

Killing Love

Anger rages through me.

Steel tears the flesh.

Don’t leave me alone!

With blood gushing forth.

Steel tears the flesh.

She screams with ecstasy,

With blood gushing forth,

Becoming an angel again.

Open those pretty eyes!

In death you rise above.

Become an angel again

And curse my act of love

In death you rise above.

Leaving, lonely I am.

Curse my act of love.

Cut me deep again.

Leaving, lonely I am.

Anger rages through me.

Curse my act of love!

Don’t leave me, alone!

Christopher Hitchens was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades.  He was a columnist and author of twelve books and five collective essays.  His political and religious views weren’t always accepted, but his career as a writer was successful.  His advice for writers is spot on.  It’s something I’ve heard from several sources and believe whole heartedly for my writing.  Click on the video to hear his advice.

Nicholas Sparks Facebook Page

For an assignment in my New Media class at Southern New Hampshire University I researched three published authors’ Facebook pages to get a well rounded idea of how they present themselves to the public.  Research shows that certain practices help writers’ exposure to the public and I wanted to discover if those practices were being carried out. 

David Morrell has been a lifelong favorite author of mine so dissecting his methods might have been too easy for me.  His page does show much interaction with the public along with advertising for his work; a plus for a writer.  John Grisham’s Facebook page felt more like a platform for advertisement and not as interactive as Morrell’s site.  The author I’m choosing to take a deeper look into is Nicolas Sparks.  Is it because he’s in Southport, North Carolina right now and I might see him pass by in his car?  Maybe.

Sparks’ Facebook page has plenty to offer for his fans.  There are contests such as the Twitter party which offers chances to win an autographed copy of Safe Haven and other prizes.  The site also has a “Fan of the Week” posting that is decided by participation through wall posting and comments.  Sparks also shows his character by sharing moments from his charity work; the Sparks’ Basketball Camp.

The three necessitates to a good Facebook page are the Profile, the Pages, and the Groups.  Sparks’ profile is professional in the sense that he makes his followers feel a part of his work.  There are many pictures from the set of Safe Haven, being filmed right now just down the road, which is an adaptation of his book.  Though Sparks doesn’t actually post many comments to those commenting on his post his followers still seem satisfied that he is taking the time to update his page several times daily.

Sparks has pages of information on his work that are intergraded with games, fun extras, and calendar of events.  Getting information on anything Sparks is very easy through his Facebook account.

I didn’t see that Nicolas Sparks has any groups that he leads and being a full time author and advisor to movies probably doesn’t allow him time to follow many groups.  This is countered by the availability of the public to participate in any of his various games, contests, or interactive networking.

The advice for writers on Facebook is for them to be social, natural, consistent, and diverse.  Nicolas Sparks seems natural in his posting, often laid back with his picture posting.  He is consistent by dropping lines from movies, asking questions about his novels, and updating his account daily.  His diversity and social skills seem to lack slightly.  If Sparks would interact in the comment section like David Morrell does, then more people might comment for the chance to be spoken to.  His diversity ranges from one of his projects to another and in the multiple available pages, but not in random postings or comments or information on his personal life or perspective.