Blue Eyes - Yi Wen SeowMy youngest daughter is in the throes of first love.
Can you remember that
all encompassing feeling
where all else pales
into insignificance
And he/she is
the centre
of your universe
in each thought you have
and every breath you take...
all encompassing feeling
where all else pales
into insignificance
And he/she is
the centre
of your universe
in each thought you have
and every breath you take...
Janet Frame the New Zealand poet and writer had this
to say about her first kiss:
to say about her first kiss:
It's in the mind
it's in the ear
it's at the base of the brain
the size of a pea
oh my Lord Omlette and Parsley
but I was kissed
Scrambled egg I was kissed
kissed buttercup and cathedral
for the first time
in my life...
it's in the ear
it's at the base of the brain
the size of a pea
oh my Lord Omlette and Parsley
but I was kissed
Scrambled egg I was kissed
kissed buttercup and cathedral
for the first time
in my life...
Janet Frame, 1924-2004, was a complex woman who suffered greatly from mental health issues when treatment was either unavailable, inappropriate or barbaric.
The publication of her debut novel Owls do Cry saved her from a scheduled lobotomy.
Film producer Jane Campion adapted Frame's autobiographical trilogy material into her film: An Angel at my Table.
Janet Frame had a dramatic personal life history and literary output - poems, novels and short stories. Michael King wrote a biography of Janet Frame entitled Wrestling with the Angel.
I wonder how my daughter will, in time, reflect on her first love.
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Yi Wen Seow is a young New Zealand artist found at http://www.wen.co.nz/
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