Decorating my room with AWESOME
My school had a poster fair earlier this year and I haven’t hung my purchases until today (mum told me to wait till I had frames for them, but I couldn’t wait any longer!!) and needless to say, I’m rather pleased with the results :)
The first of which is my TO VICTORY Dalek poster (incidentally, the same poster that Liam Dryden has in his room)
And the second is Van Gogh’s Starry Night which looks right at home over my easel and art shelves :)
And now, Sammy’s room is even more awesome than it was before :D
LOOK! MY WORDS! :)
As part of the university creative writing club this year, I had the opportunity to submit some of my work to be published in an anthology of work done by the club. So here it is!! My first publication in a real book :)
Pretty awesome, no? :)
Conscientious Shift ~ Sammy Bissonnette
Circumstantial difficulty halts the words I want to speak
I couldn’t explain how the universe became this way
In so short a time white has turned to blackest black
Tables turn and the sun surrenders to the moon
Why do these bitter stitches rip harsher from their seems
Not so long ago the threads were made of unwavering iron
Now the fabric shreds and separates like paper in water
A whole future of sunset gold and happily-ever-afters
Crumpled in resentful fists and thrown over our shoulders
Faults on both sides and aching pride preventing resolution
Will you ever cease the barring of your scornful teeth
Arrange them instead in a smile of apology and end this
I want to be the bigger man and commence a sorry stitch
But the ice you’ve blasted me with produces too big a welt
I must finally fight against your oozing of conditional love
To preserve what little self-respect I harbour in my being
For until the tension shifts to illuminate your wrongs
I will remain with my head held as high as my stars allow
Yielding to the circumstantial difficulty of the barrier between
And moving the way the unhappy universe wants me to
Spinning for once in a luminous sphere I can call my own
Revisions happened!! I need opinions!!
I made some edits to a poem I wrote called “A Stirring of Romanticism” (which I’ve posted twice before I believe) and I intend on submitting it for the writing club anthology today so I just wanted to share the new version and see what people think :) You can go back in my blog to find the older version or if you want me to post it again, let me know! I’ll post the new edits in a post right after this one and then any thoughts/comments are welcome!! :)
Mmmmmm….vanilla candle….
Dear tumblr,
I MISS YOU!!!!!!!
I’ve been ridiculously busy lately with new classes and readings piling up and essays just around the corner and this past weekend I was babysitting while my parents were out of town. SO! I haven’t had any time to frequent my lovely tumblr and I’m missing you all so very much. It doesn’t look like I’m going to be any less busy in the upcoming days/weeks unfortunately…on the contrary I’ll probably be busier as essay deadlines arrive and readings get more intense…also I just got a call for an interview so if I throw a job into the mix, life will really get hectic :S Plus I’ve got a writing club to be focusing my attentions on…and a rather serious life decision to be making over the course of the next few months (more on that later).
Anyway, I just wanted to pop in while I had the time and say a big HELLO and send my love to you all and promise that even though I’ll be busy busy with things, I am going to do my best to make a point of visiting tumblr as much as I can.
Miss you dearly, tumblr!!
Hope all is well with my wonderful followers :)
MUCH LOVE!!!
Sammy :) xoxoxo
Second term in Brock U’s English Program
Check out my book list for the new term!!
Jealous much??? :P Yes, that is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ;)
My courses this term include:
- Young People’s Literature After 1914
- Early 17th Century Literature
- Later Romantic Writing
- Representing The World In Modern Fiction
- Non-Shakespearean Drama in England 1576-1642
Conclusion?? I’m pretty excited for the new term to begin :)
Oh hey, I got published :)
My poem “For Want of Solitude” was printed in the November 25th edition of the University of Toronto’s newspaper called “Gargoyle”. A very big thank you to my friend Giovanni, who told me about the submission opportunity and suggested I send something in :) It’s a really spectacular feeling seeing my name and my words in print. Here’s hoping it’s just the first of many future publications! :)
Here’s a pic of my poem in the paper (Look!!! That’s my name!!! And those are my words!!!! My poem!!! So exciting!!)
Oh & here’s the cover of the paper because I think it’s cool ;)
Symphony of the Blood in Love ~ Sammy Bissonnette
And so kiss me to excite the blood with music.
Speak only yea that you love;
Waste not a breath on coy pleasantries,
But breathe your symphony of affection into my veins.
Join your lips with mine in a chorus of harmonic physicalities.
Conduct with the tempo of our allegro hearts
And cue the crescendo of emotion with brio,
Falling into the intimacy of andante comforts.
Play pianissimo with your touch upon my face
And whisper to me in dolce smiles.
As the symphony nears its final chords,
Trill gently your sighs into my ear
And soften the staccato blood pulse
With a legato slur into silence.
And so kiss me again,
To appease the stirring musicians with an obliging encore.
BOOK DEPOT BOXING WEEK 50% OFF STICKER PRICE SALE AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Got TONS of new books. Will post pictures soon :D First I must uber tidy my room and dust my bookshelves for the new arrivals ;) Tra la la! This is my favourite part!! Putting them on the shelves and organizing them is almost as much fun as reading them!!! YAY FOR NEW BOOKS!!! :D
Exams!! Promises!! Love!!
Haven’t posted in a while…I’m very aware of this fact….also the fact that when I have posted, they’ve generally been reblogs. Which I mean, I’m in the midst of exam season, so….priorities, people :P I do want to promise however, that come Christmas holidays I will be writing a great deal more…not just reblogging. And hey, I may even post some art pieces I’ve done/plan to do ;) So yeah…look out for those.
And ummmmmmm….wish me luck today! This exam will probably be the hardest one I’ve got…in terms of memorizing anyway. It’s Greek/Roman literature, so there are a lot of authors, terms, titles etc. that sound really similar!! (ie. Propertius, Tibullus, Theocritus, Aristophanes, Bacchylides etc. etc.) And it’s my longest exam too. Three hours as opposed to the two hour periods the rest of my exams occupy.
So yes, anywho! Just wanted to come update the interwebs as to what’s going on with my life and say hello to you lovely people because I have sincerely missed you. And writing in general. My mind is all crammed with facts and titles, so as soon as I can, I want to fill it instead with plot lines, poetry and prose :)
Hope all my fellow univeristy/college followers are doing well during exam time and that all my other followers are having a lovely Christmas season!!!
MUCH LOVE!!! <3 xoxoxo
Good Morning Tumblies! :)
I am sitting here in the secluded Thistle hallway, eating Fruit Loops, listening to Vagualy Live Radio and looking out the window at the beauuuuutiful autumn scene!
Here is me eating a Fruit Loop, looking absolutely silly in a hallway where lucky there were no people around to look quizically at me (not that it would have stopped me)…
But more importantly, here’s a little teaser of my gorgeous view…
The crummy webcam does not do it justice!! It’s a great deal more lovely in reality. Wish I could share it with you all properly! I should start bringing a camera around campus…
Anywho, hope you all have a BEAUTIFUL day!! Enjoy your Fridays and your weekends and keep smiling, tumblies!! Love you! :) <3 xoxoxo
A Poet’s Grief ~ Sammy Bissonnette
My love knows nothing of my fervent plight
Watch me choke on syllables in my clumsy art;
Stumbling over thoughts in dead of night,
Pulsing frustration from my feeble heart.
Words of tenderness, phrases of swelling fire
Escape my lips in propinquity to your gentle face.
Would that I could succeed in my pained desire
To trill verses given life by a Muse’s grace.
Never do the words fall easily in a style
That I should use to woo poetics of the mind
Your breath does not like the Muse, beguile,
Thus I lack the language strict force cannot find.
Yet the grief is something I can happily cope,
Should my words from you afford a glimpse of hope.
For Want of Solitude ~ Sammy Bissonnette
What a comfort, my dear, to be sometimes alone
To collapse in the arms of Peace, for I am weak;
My sweet, could I but cease my laboured speak
And secure a pulsing quiet of my precious own.
Would that I could hasten to the chapel door
To wed myself with reluctant Silence there,
So eternally may sweet nothing grace the air,
And I be in his breathless grasp forever more.
Oh my dear one, I am so fatigued of Noise
And how he plagues me with such cruel intent.
My love, I am pregnant with volume in my poise,
Though no soul can grasp the turmoil I could vent.
But for lack of Silence, I will trill these little toys
And cry in muted volumes till I am justly spent.
Can this day just be over now?
The sun isn’t even fully up and I already want it to be over….
I’m actually so painfully nervous for this seminar, I’m making myself ill over it. It’s not that I particularly have a problem with reading in front of people…it’s just that I have a problem with reading extensively long passages. Especially ones wraught with “hath’s” and “betwixt’s” and all manners of Greek terms/names that are impossible to pronounce. *Deep breath* I just hope my mouth doesn’t betray me by stumbling over the words. No matter how calm I might be, my throat sometimes catches and it’s impossible for me to utter the next words. It’s a terrifying experience. I don’t remember it happening throughout elementary school…but in grade 11 english I was reading aloud one of Lady Macbeth’s monologues and it started happening that I became literally speechless and my eyes began to water and it was so embarrassing. I don’t know what happened but it’s continued to plague me ever since, EVEN WHEN I READ TO MYSELF WITH NO ONE ELSE AROUND! What even is that?!?! I hate it.
So with one of my embarrassing personal fears successfully thrown out to the world now, I’m going to go shower/get dressed and have breakfast so I don’t waste too much time stressing.
Wish me luck, friends :S
