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Name: KJ
Location: UK

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Music I love

Josh Groban
Within Temptation
Evanescence
The Calling/Alex Band
Yiruma (particuarly River Flows in You)
Stacey Orrico
Hans Zimmer (awesome soundtracks!!!)
Josh Groban
Muse - Supermassive Blackhole (because of the Baseball scene in Twilight!)
Linkin Park
30 Seconds to Mars
One Tree Hill OSTs
Skins OSTs
Backstreet Boys
3 Doors Down
Josh Groban
Beach Boys
The Osmonds
Cascada
Daughtry
Fallout Boy
Joshua Radin
Snow Patrol (particuarly Eyes Open album)
Missy Higgins
Mcfly
Josh Groban
Dixie Chicks
Savage Garden
Panic at the Disco

and a whole bunch more, but i'm bored of listing them! Did i mention Josh Groban

Books that changed my life.

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (This is an AMAZING book. It's an education hidden beneath the most beautiful and tragic emotional truth! Please read it!)

Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah

The Twilight Series - Stephanie Meyer

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Alex Garland - The Beach

e - Matt Beaumont

Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

High Society - Ben Elton

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

the Postsecret series - Frank Warren

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan.

Some PostSecrets...

Something I wrote recently...

Ashes of Dreams You Let Die (The Dance)

She's dancing in the churchyard again,
In the moon's blue spotlight she
Steps lightly upon notes only she can hear;
A warm melody carried by the snow-filled breeze.

Barefeet hardly mark the virgin snow. Diamonds
Melt on exposed skin,
Glittering tears on her cheeks, and she twirls
Wrapped in wings of silk and lace;
Waiting in her wedding dress.

From the bell tower you watch,
Lending your song to the passing wind
- Notes written for only her -
And the ring weighs heavy in your pocket,
And a wilting flower hangs from your buttonhole;
Your suit tattered and scraped now.

But you go on watching as those
Graceful steps consume her:
The dance you never shared...

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Okay, so that was Ashes of Dreams You Let Die and it was inspired partially by Josh Groban's "So She Dances" but mostly by a PostSecret card I saw which read: "Every year on June 4th, I slow dance alone to the same song...while pretending to hold the baby I miscarried." (I'll try to find a picture of it asap!)

I'm a huge fan of Josh Groban, and PostSecret. And if you don't know what PostSecret is google it NOW! because it is an education, an experience, and a life saver! You will be inspired, and touched, you'll laugh and cry, and I can't say enough good things about it! Josh Groban's music has a simliar effect on me!

Aside from writing creatively, occassionally (mostly poetry, sometimes prose), I'm also a huge bookworm, and just below the list of "Music I love" is a list of "Books that changed my life." I can't reccomend HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie enough: like PostSecret and Josh's music, it's also full of emotional truth, something I hope leaks through into my own work through their influence.

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Learning To Breathe

Eyes unfold like tulips, stretching to
Embrace the mid-March sun.
You'd have hated it anyway,
Seeing splinters in the light, your fingers
Grasping at the frayed edges of the globe,
Trying to pull me closer as I climb

'Board another plane, another train, my tongue
Dancing to a foreign rhythm; ogni respiro
Viene trovato più facilmente quando i passi diventano
Naturali* . But you'd have hated it anyway,
Crashing symbols to drown out the nylon guitar
Guiding me through this maze of canals and

Frescoed walls. Across the water city lights
Harmonize to each velvet strum; riflessi
guidano la via verso l'alba**, while you
Face West, still mourning yesterday's stars.

*

Translation of Italian:

(these translations are not literal, but approximations - Thanks Emy!!)

* ...each breath/ I find more easily as the steps become/Natural

**... reflections/ leading the way into sunrise

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