I’ve been asked a lot lately about my poetry – that I’ve written, published and unpublished. I’m going to find it a bit difficult to lay my hands on some of it that I wrote for Uni, but I’ve said I’d do my best.
But for a start, I present for your enjoyment, Rollercoasters.
Dual bands of purple
fading scratches on my hand
rollercoaster tracks I ride every day
Up, up, tick, tock
breathless the plateau runs
a rhythm tree-climb, slows till,
each day is a blink
a kaleidoscope of edges
and control that melts
inhibitions and reality
a breath
I hold, hanging
on a line, an edge
Dropping
Away
Dipping through safety,
riding the breaker’s wave
everything’s sharper
relief that tastes bitter almond
and salty soft.
Stuck in a breath, I feel only pain, creaking
the world darkens, focus on
me, in a shrinking spotlight
I scratch out more tracks
Pay, in advance for the next ride,
I see, my despised chameleon core
And nothing more
caught, then shock, I begin again
waving through normality
on a ride that never ends.
(c) D Kai Wilson-Viola, 2012
D Kai Wilson- Viola is a prolific and often intensely fun writer. Her favorite genres are Sci-Fi, where her Darkness series is set, Fantasy, where she writes up actual play from RPGs she never got to run, urban fantasy, mostly inspired by her bad idea bear (aka her partner, Tempus, and mental health advocacy, as she’s got a raft of diagnoses, none of them particularly pleasant, but none that tend to hold her down for long either
When not writing, and still *thinking* about writing often enough to get caught out, Kai can be found training with her beloved at the Ludosport Academy they belong to, hanging out with family and friends gaming, or enjoying exploring parts of the world they’ve got access to at the time.
A nature and animal lover, Kai is a writer because she has to, because she loves it, and because it’s fun. She is the mother of two cats, two adults and lives in the Cotswolds, UK, with her beloved.
Beautiful. I wrote a paper for college years ago on bipolar, and creative genius. .. time and time again studies show a very strong corolation between affective disorders, and creative abilities above average. . Blessing? ♡
I think it is in some ways. But its a whole blog of an answer.
I like the perspectives I have on things, but I don’t know whether I’m unusual in that. People ask me whether I’d rather be normal, but how would I know what that actually is?
Beautiful. I wrote a paper for college years ago on bipolar, and creative genius. .. time and time again studies show a very strong corolation between affective disorders, and creative abilities above average. . Blessing? ♡
I think it is in some ways. But its a whole blog of an answer.
I like the perspectives I have on things, but I don’t know whether I’m unusual in that. People ask me whether I’d rather be normal, but how would I know what that actually is?