the moon, like to a silver bow. ([info]luna_fay) wrote,
@ 2009-07-06 21:10:00
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A tinder box.











I had a dream that I was lost in a library; it had spiral staircases and tiny ladders with goblins wearing spectacles, they were dusting the highest shelves. I sat in a big red velvet armchair reading every book that I could find about myths and tales, until the guard told me that it was closing time, “don’t you have a home to go to miss?”, I yawned sleepily and glanced at the big grandfather clock, it was two minutes to ten.
I am not a believer in hope but it sometimes comes in wisps and strays, I am going to begin a pebble jar, just like Stargirl, and maybe one day it will become full of mermaid tear pebbles.

I want to see Paris lit up at night time, sit with my sketchbook in the Musée du Louvre, and take photographs of the Eiffel Tower, see Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, dance under the moon and constellations at Stonehenge, stay up all night at a music festival in a far away country, sing in a band, but I think I am much too shy, and there is no room in his band for a girl, leave sweet words for strangers sat on lonely park benches, go and see the The Nutcracker and take ballet lessons too, I used to dance when I was five, I think most little girls did, and Swan Lake and La Bayadère at the Royal Opera House, I think I would cry over how beautiful they both are, find an old music box and suitcases, and my very own Pan god, I will be your nymph, I promise.
Visit Glastonbury with its pretty bookshops, and abbey and gardens, make my hair the colour of the palest moons, kiss boys with smudged eye liner and tattoos and muscled arms, and buy that copy of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, with illustrations by Kay Nielsen, that I have always wanted, and my best friend and I will travel to London in September and dress as Viking girls for the band, and look around art universities. I want to take the bus to Portobello road and buy vintage black lace and antique books, and this year I will move away from home, share a tiny house with a few girls or boys, and we will have so many lovely days, and if we feel sad, we will watch Picnic at Hanging Rock, Girl, Interrupted and the Virgin Suicides, and old horror films too, we can hide our hearts for just one day, and tomorrow when the sun wakes up I will go for a walk with my camera on the lonely five a m roads.




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[info]losemeontheway
2009-07-06 09:07 pm UTC (link)
The things you want to do sound so lovely - I hope you get to do all of them. &hearts

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[info]jackiesjottings
2009-07-07 07:19 am UTC (link)
Oh you must go to Glastonbury, I will volunteer to be your guide :)

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[info]hyper_faerie
2009-07-07 03:37 pm UTC (link)
You are magical :) And you're making me miss London like crazy :D

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[info]thinmoonsugar_
2009-07-07 05:29 pm UTC (link)
oh darling luna
i wish everydream you hold in your dear heart comes true
you deserve all the magic in the world
i adore you!

c*

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[info]chailin
2009-07-07 09:45 pm UTC (link)
You glitter beautifully. <3
That sounds like a wonderful dream, something you could easily turn into a story.

I have that book, "East of the Sun, West of the Moon." I'd forgotten all about it. "The Balloon Tree" was also wonderful!

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[info]iris_diaphanous
2009-07-10 05:43 am UTC (link)
"I am going to begin a pebble jar, just like Stargirl, and maybe one day it will become full of mermaid tear pebbles." -- I truly believe it will fill with mermaid tears, and I hope you see Paris soon and dance under the constellation at stonehedge just as nutcracker ballerinas do, and do all the dreamy things that fill your mind.

PS. The tanglewood photographs of booklets, drawings, lost girls, and woodland faeries in the entry below are some of the most magical photographs I have ever seen. I cannot imagine walking in such a beautiful woods, it must be a place of dreams.

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[info]splendory
2009-07-31 03:35 am UTC (link)
Such a magical post ♥

You seem lovely and your journal is darling. Hope you don't mind me adding you :)

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[info]tzuki17
2009-08-03 09:31 am UTC (link)
Do you mind? I've added you as a friend, altho' we've never met....we do have a mutual 'aquaintance' in Bryony (although I haven't exactly met her either) and i do find your journal so delightful!

I believe in faeries too of course and lately have been seiezed with the desire to re-aquaint myself with them.

I hope all your wishes come true...they are so similar to my wishes, that I felt I should like to see how yours unfold.

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[info]seawashed
2009-08-05 04:52 pm UTC (link)
Happiest birthday, beloved. ♥ Hope your day is magic.

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[info]simplyshelbybee
2009-08-05 07:19 pm UTC (link)
hello. my name is shelby! i find your journal inspiring and enchanting, so i added you. i hope you don't mind!

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[info]lunar_alchemy
2009-09-10 12:15 pm UTC (link)
i have added you to my friends list, i hope you don't mind...

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