Saturday, 26 July 2008
Human Volcano
There she goes: screaming like those little muddy things in Harry Potter 2; beating herself like a mad woman; tearing at her hair-I knew it was going to be like this.
There's no point in trying to calm her down, it's not going to work. She's on fire. How would you feel if you just saw the tiny coffin carrying your baby,your baby that you carried for nine months and had bonded with, be buried before you very eyes? Buried and gone forever. Extinct. You wouldn't be any different to this woman and you wouldn't want all this old hags trying to shut you up , acting as if they now what you must be going through. They should just leave her; she'll calm down when she wants to.
That took long enough; she's calmed down a little. She's still whimpering and whining and weeping but you can expect her to be completely silent and smiling after that spectacle. Poor cow, she'll get over it.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Destiny? (Leyton Orient Day)
Candifloss and marshmallows
Don't go so well,
With raisons and pistashios.
Perhaps they arn't meant to be?
Orange juice and cranberry
Don't go so well,
with our tea and coffee.
Perhaps there's a reason indeed?
Love and friendship
Don't go so well,
With enemies and hatred.
Perhaps they don't go so well
Because maybe there is such a thing
as fate or destiny?
Expectations... (Leyton Orient day)

Expectations
Somewhere on the outskirts of London;
A middle aged single mother appears to be shouting
at her son
Noise continuously erupting from around the small
bungalow.
But none of it matters, not really, why should it?
Somewhere on the outskirts of London;
A mother expresses her anger to her son.
Words full of meaning rapidly rush
from her fast paced, vicious mouth.
"I have been blessed by God with 4 sons
However, you, my eldest one,
The single most relied one,
Are definitely; the most dissapointing one!"
Appearances can certainly be deceaving,
Not many can tell how another's feeling.
Him, he appears to be without a worry
In the world, in his (own) world,
Never seems to be in any sort of a hurry
And appears to ignore everything he's told.
"If, mother, you hadn't expected so much of me
Perhaps everything I do, or done, won't end so
very dissapointingly."
He spots a glimmering speck of a tear,
somwhere in a corner of her eye.
Thinks of the day and life, gone by.
Yet he knows it's never worth it, to cry.
So then he leaves. Just a pathetic coward,
With nothing left to say,
except, "Good Bye".
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
waves of steam arose
"Mikey! Come down please. Dinners here." Called mum. As expected, Mikey would shuffle down the stairs and mope about til he found his seat. Our usual routine consisted of Mum calling Mikey who would eventually come and then we could all enjoy dinner together as a family. Mum shakily poured out dad another glass of wine. Everyone was in a content silence as we all savoured the taste until dad broke it.
"And how was everyone's day?"
We all looked up and chipped in with the mumble of "good" or "fine", carefully picking words which couldn't offend him.
"Good. Why can't it be great? It's always good. It's always fine. God gave us words. Use them." He said looking at us all. We instantly looked down at our food. Someone would have to go first.
"Dad, my day was good because although I was tripped up on the way to school, Mary gave me a half of her twirl bar." I said. "Thanks for asking though." I added. "How was yours?"
"Oh mine?" Shit, I could feel everything was abut to go wrong. It was like a premonition or a gut instinct. Dad was going to end up shouting. Seeing his glass empty, mum shakily poured out another glass of wine.
"Give me the damn bottle." He shouted as he snatched it off her, "You pour as if I'm a child. Right, You want to know about my day. Ok, well, I woke up asking God why he blessed me with such a lousy, stingey-wine-pouring wife. Then I asked him why he gave me two ungrateful little gits for children. Then I asked him why everyone was so dumb as to not give me a job. Then I asked him why did he give jobs to the gits who wouldn't give me a job. Then I asked him why he would want to bestow me with bills that I cannot pay. Then I asked him why did..." he paused and took a glug from the bottle. "Why did he give me two kids who contribute to the expense of the bills. Then I asked him why did I have to be the unlucky sod whos contraception failed him twice, TWICE! Then I asked him to kill me before dinner time where I would have to sit and talk to you!" I winced as he emphasized his harsh, mean words.
And then it came. My word vomit. I couldn't help it. I had been wretching for months to say it and now it was going to come thick and fast.
"DAD... You ungrateful git! If mum wasn't so bloody scared of you, we would have been gone by now. You are rusting our family away and you don't even realize it because you are to drunk to remember! Mum should be praying and asking why she was blind to fall in love with such a completely drunk, lazy man like you. We shouldn't even consider you as a father. You can't get a job because you don't turn up to most of the interviews and if you do, you're too drunk to even have anyone take you seriously. Your contraception propbably failed you because you were probably too drunk to even remember it! And now I am wishing we could all die because I can't bear the thought of spending another meal time with you!"
"I thought you wanted children, Richy???" Mum whispered, tears brewing in her eyes.
Completely ignoring her, dad stabbed me with his eyes. "You wish you were dead do you? Congratulations darling, you're going to be!"
He launched at me. Crazy, he was. Mental. He threw his hands around my neck and hung on for dear life. "Devil's child" He screamed as he attacked me. I couldn't see anything. I could only hear mum screaming and crying, petrified. He was doing a good job for once as he put his all into seeing the death of me.
Smash! Mum gasped. Green shards of glass spattered everywhere. Dad suddenly became paralysed and lossened his grip as he fell to the floor. Mikey shuffled back to his seat and stared at his dinner.
Everyone imediately fell silent. Mikey turned to mum, "Thanks" he mumbled as he passed his plate to her before shuffling back upstairs.
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Denied
A man of freedom, peace and equality, he was. Bricked off from the vultures of society for far too long, temptation overrode his irreproachable subliminal being, a fateful decision. Leaving his armoured bunker he perambulated into a cosmos of epic, flawless almost sycophant society.
A life spent obeying orders had left him wanting, needing, begging almost for a premier appearance. He wasn’t scared of anything by now; he didn’t know anything to be afraid of since he hadn’t seen the light of day on his own before, his people were far too protective for that, they had good reason to be too.
As time passed his confidence grew to an extent that, for once in his life, he felt accepted. He could walk down the street without anyone noticing his presence; the contrary of what he had been lectured. Understandably his blood started to boil over, his pace increased, the steps grew louder. The grin tried to enter but was denied such a privilege, a decision that would come back to haunt him.
With heinous proportions, a heartbeat, a click followed by a crisis meeting from lead to skin, to flesh, to bone. As the crimson explosion made its debut, it was greeted by a protest full of irony and false intentions, anarchy reigned, the once tranquil cosmos has been set ablaze by the fiery depths of hell. What was once a cranium had been turned into a pink mess strewn across the flawless tarmac.
His soul was long gone by now, watching down on his assassin quietly fleeing down a dimly lit alleyway, a grin suitably fitted was stretched across his face. Innocence wasn’t what the grin was looking for anyway. Today it wanted a more destructive result and that’s exactly what it got. Temporally nonplussed, the grin sank back into the skull.
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Jazz and Liquor.
Her heart is pounding like a fist make of lead inside her, she feels as if its going to pound right through her breaking her delicate rib bones. She's nervous.No. Exited. She can hear the crowd, she waits for her cue; she's the main attraction. All those people, waiting to see her. She'll be amazing though, she knows it, especially with Charlie for support.She's having doubts...No. Nerves, just the nerves...
"Please put your hands together for Mary-Jane!..."
"Shit" we hear her stutter, she has no time to check her costume or make-up. Before she knows it, she's up...
The audience roar with cheers and applause! They jump out of their seats pronto and whistle for Mary-Jane. The band begins to play, the audience are seated, the lights dim. The cymbals crash like the harsh sea against tough rocks, the piano kicks in with arpeggios and scales and chords! There she goes, doing what she does best. We watch as she parades around the stage, feathers waltzing and the tassels on her dress shaking. Her hair looks beautiful in the spotlight, like a river of liquidized honeycomb and gold. Her voice box blares out the sweetest sound as she twirls about, the spotlight is so bright, it blinds her; but she loves it. Dashing Gentlemen in the audience whistle suggestively at her. The music is so loud its deafening, everything is caught in the moment, her voice, her dance, the band, the applause; its all just so alive.
Halt. She is still, the band is silent the light is shining. Is this part of the act? We don't know. She stares out into the audience, the light is so dim, all she can see is the glistening of their eyes like stars twinkling and shining on her. The audience: silent, of course, they are memorized by her eyes, once so full of life, now, they are dead fossils set in her skull. We wait...whats the surprise? No-one knows. What is she planning? She's a angel set in stone, no movement or sound.
The cymbals suddenly crashes and she falls on her knees, decorating the floor like a colourful woven carpet: all sparkle and colour. The audience gasps, is it part of the show? The lights dim, the atmosphere grows thicker, this is the result of Jazz and Liquor.
Murder
* * * *
She sat there bound to the chair, not just by the tatty ropes tied around her wrists and ankles but by the simultaneous hatred emmited from the both of us. I watched as he began to reconstruct her face ignoring her desperate cries. Starting with her hair Jeff slowly worked his way down this blank canvas recreating a piece of art, designed by me. But by the time he reaches her mouth, guilt and rationality begin to settle in. "NO!!" he screamed, "what am i doing. shes my wife?". Dissapointed he couldnt finish the job alone, I steped in to help, reassuring him she deserved it. Minutes later he was finished and as we stood back to admire our finished product, pride and relief fluttered within my body. This was it now, although still breathing she could no longer do us any harm as her resemblence to freddy kruger even suprised me, not to metion the officer that found her. I can clearly remember what he had eaten for the past week as the contents still lingers on jeffs shoes: porridge followed by garlic chicken kievs topped with hageen dazz.Vanilla flavour...
* * * *
So you see I didnt actually do anything to hurt her. Not phyisicaly anway. I mean I couldnt even if I had wanted to. Jeffs asleep now finally. I am standing over him watching his chest rise then collapse in such perfect rhythm. He says hes goin to blame me, say it was all my fault...bit hard when i am fate,controller of Jeff's destiny.
P.S sorry its 34mins late :)
Task 28; Alone
She reached over and gently picked up the needle, the glistening liquid potion inside luring and seducing her into its vain reality, calling her. Finding the spot was tricky, there were so many to choose from, so many craving it.
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by its toe, eeny meeny miny, moe.”
The point pierced her skin, its spark and energy maneuvered and catapulted up her arm, the sensation tingling and travelling around her body. And then she closed her eyes, feeling the high. The room started shaking, moving, taking on a life of its own. Seconds later, she opened her eyes and bolted.
The world was spinning around her. Her quivering hands eventually unlocked the door and she sprinted down the stairs like potassium on water. The sounds of the rambling squat and junkies meant nothing to her, she was on a roll. Every sense in her body was on a sensational high, pricking and poking her; feeding her adrenaline; it was her oxygen. The cold air slapped her paling face and the wind rasped and clutched her naked feet; she ran and ran and continued running. The streets of New Jersey span around her, the lights reached out and punched her, making her giddy. Her small pupils sprang left and right, in a constant dance. Her chocolate brown nightgown dripped and tangled around her thin body, battered by the wind and strangled by beads of her sweat. She started panting, shouting, screaming out for help; but the sounds drained into the suburb.
She dropped to the floor, clutching the crumbling wall behind her, begging the sidewalk for a cushion of support. She clutched and strained her hair, the feeling of the potion slowly draining scared her. She would die without her life support. Eyes widened and mouths tutted as they passed this dying creature lying on the floor, so shaken by reality; they knew she was done for and she did too. She was alone again.
Friday, 18 July 2008
Task 28:Why Did This Happen To Me?
Remember the days when you was unhappy,sad, distraught to know the fact that I was unhappy and sad.The first few days of our relationship was tremendous! The way you use to tell me you loved me and how it was love at first siaght. The second month of our relationship when you got jelous of certain things. When I used to flirt and enjoy the company of other people.
It has now come to my senses that It was not ment to be but yet we had good and bad times. We went through thick and thin,soft and hard.When we used to get annoyed with eachother when one could'nt get their own way. I got very restfull of the arguements that we had, or maybe was it that? Is that the reason why your leaving me? I ask these many questions as I am confused and can not understand why you made this decision.
My tears of sadness over flows my eye lids like spring fresh water over flows mountains. I cry emotionally, this is hard to take in. Why did this happen to me? I ask you and no form of comment has been said, but the sound of wind fulfills the atmosphere. Whats goin to happen next? I move somewhere start again and live life like this has never happened!
Daddy
That was then. I remember the night of his murder: closer, Closer, CLOSER. The unknown lurked up on daddy, without giving him room to think - or breathe. He'd edge up towards Daddy pushinig him infact into the dark of the outside world out of the window. I cried. What was I to do? "Come closer Sweetheart, I won't hurt you" he'd mutter. But he did. He hurt me in ways word coudn't describe. He'd hurt my heart, broken it infact; Daddy didn't have a place to live anymore. It was almost like his house had gotton blown away - or in this case, broken and shattered. My heart. I still don't remember his face - that warlock. Yet I'll always remember how te took daddy from me. He was a murderer.
Maybe I should stop all the trash talk - Daddy would call it. Talking about the unneccessaries to life. Almost like his death infact. He'd almost minimize the hugest events in life. That was daddy for you. Oh how I missed him after he left. I'm used to it now. I'm used to being alone. Yet It doesn't bother me. Im happiest like this.
BUT WHY DID DADDY LEAVE ME? The question that wouldn't leave my head. He was horrible. I hate him. He didn't save himself. He doesn't care about me. No one does. Why did he allow it to get this far? Why did daddy leave me? I'm all on my own now, without no one. Daddy didn't care. So why should anyone else? Daddy was always in charge. But I hate him. He left me. Just like everyone else is. I don't mind though. I'm happiest like this.
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Past Times
He reminisced about the 2 of them exchanging priest pleasing comments on each other’s image whilst also co-ordinating they’re feet to the rhythm of Queen on the stage, whilst Queen carelessly waved each of their precious and reliable instruments of individual harmonic symphonies in the alcohol filled atmosphere. Most of the people were much too intoxicated to even care let alone be aware of what was happening in their surroundings. It may have been this jolly atmosphere that provoked IT to happen, it may have been the atmospheric afternoon that had added petrol to fire, it may have been this atmospheric day that had been the detonator to a bomb. It may have been, George will never know for sure, not truthfully, all he can do is develop theories, they may have been controversial but they were theories none the less.
He heard a Bang! Bang! Bang! That’s when he realised that he had lost the lead connecting him to his beloved one. PANIC, DESPERATION, FEAR: these are what George felt at that moment, THE moment. He was petrified at the sight which was bestowed upon him, he could see a scarlet liquid dripping from the mouth, black and blue lumps of fear littered all around the horrifically battered body. His mouth shuddered at the many thoughts of what may have happened, after the shock of seeing it dangling down from a drain pipe.
A large, cold hand grabbed his shoulder and he immediately awoke from the heavenly dream turned nightmare. Beads of perspiration manoeuvred they’re way around George’s facial features, he was relieved that he was out of that world, but still reminiscing about that singular moment…
Task 28 - Broken Past
He buried the past in my heart; it will always remain as a master piece of true art. It was perfect, no mistake but I now sit in a place where light is forbidden. On my pale face tears dry on my cheeks like ice on top of a mountain. But round me, faces all lit up, looking bright and colourful like fireworks in the haunted sky at midnight. I see him in the middle. Standing where our last dance was meant to be; I see that he is searching for the answer to this riddle.
That’s when the memories of the forgotten, incomplete past came back to life in my deadly thoughts. I feel the warm wind rush round my neck and down to my feet then gone. He wasn’t gone and neither was I though the distance between us is increasing at a fast rate, too fast for me to catch up. I was holding a glass in my right unsteady hand with lemonade that was filled half way through. It was sweet but as soon as it enters my body it was turning into that pure ugly unwanted bitter taste. As I put down the glass on the table, I see him again with a smile on his face, pretending everything was alright when clearly the hurt in his eyes said - it just wasn’t.
Soon the booming music was changing to fit a missing piece of my life, the peaceful, placid side of it all. In my hand, I was holding the blue butterfly necklace he gave me and with it was my necklace that had my name. Both of them was tangle up with each other, I was trying to separate them but fail to and maybe that was a sign of how our lives should be. But fairy tale endings was made to give fake a meaning, with my life slowly speeding down the hill, without him trying to be an obstacle to stop it. I was unseen, unheard, unwanted, sitting there with an image of my broken past going round in my mind like a power point slide show. It was a pleasant feeling of being reminded of what used to be, made it seem that it was possible to get through this night. It didn’t last long, as my eyes saw him once again, a storm made the whole atmosphere shake apart then a sudden burst of silence . It was too late, his taken another path; left our past buried in my heart.
Monday, 14 July 2008
The Two Magicians And The White Room
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Task 28: FINAL task of 2007/8

This is the FINAL wordvoodoo task of the 2007/8 Academic Year, and for some of you (students and moderators) it will be your last task - so let's make sure you go out with a BANG. And even for those of you (current Y8, Y9 or Y10) who will be carrying on in September, this is still your chance to show off EVERYTHING you have learnt over the course of this year on wordvoodoo.
So think back to all the techniques you have been taught, and make this the most original, memorable, creative (and accurate) piece of writing you have ever produced!
It is another music task - but it is a little different, in that:
- there is not a CHOICE of tracks - you must all use the SAME one;
- it is an ENTIRE track, rather than a 1 minute excerpt - so I will expect your writing to echo the SHAPE of the whole piece of music too.
Once you have produced an analysis of the structure of the music, you should close your eyes and listen to it again. This time, you should allow your imagination to concoct the scenario for your piece of writing - even if you have to listen to it several times in order to achieve this.
Then, as last time, begin to draft your piece. When you have finished, please check the following things:
- Does it fit the piece of music when you listen to it again?
- Have you corrected any careless mistakes (spelling/punctuation/grammar) or typos?
- imagery (similes, metaphors and personification);
- sound (rhyme, rhythm and alliterations);
- varied syntax (short, simple and striking sentences and fragments; longer, more complex/compound sentences - and the range of punctuation that goes with it);
- varied vocabulary (sometimes simple and short; sometimes more florid and polysyllabic; everything for a reason...)
- subtlety (i.e. hinting at things rather than shouting them out to your reader);
- tension (mood/atmosphere; sufficient/sustained engagement to retain the reader's interest)
- and anything else you have learned on wordvoodoo this year.
You should provide a TITLE for your submission; and your submission itself should be between 250-400 words.
You MUST complete this task by midnight on Saturday 19th July. No excuses. No delays. No allowances.
Good luck!
P.S. I will try my very best to post an exemplar over the next couple of days - but don't be afraid to remind me or to ask for help if necessary! :)
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Task 26:
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Task 26
There I was standing, the whistling wind rushing through my hair. The golden sand flowing from in between my toes. The senecio mandraliscae plant swaying left and right, enjoying the harmless wind that blows upon it. My tight knitted skirt, homemade by my grandma, waving around my bruised legs like crazy.
The sad looking camel with its unusual 3 humps, staring at me like I’m the only person on the planet. All I could do was stare back at how lonely the poor animal was, like me. I wish I could just go and hug the suffering, solitary, gloomy looking poor creature, of god’s existence.
Yellow jacket wasps flying around the empty place, looking for their prey, never giving up. The scorpions weaving in and out of the fortunate sand, looking for a friend. The kingsnake chomping on the last coral snake he could hunt down. The horned lizard looking for some juicy ants to grind into its rumbling stomach, to stop the gurgling noise.
The hut I once lived in broken down into smithereens, I wouldn’t need that now! No shadow of my family is left, not a soul. My childhood memory’s stuck underneath the dusty rubble.
There I was standing, wishing I could be part of a family again, wishing me and my friends could reunite again, I wish, I wish, I wish! I closed my eyes and wished as hard as I could!