Sam Rawlings

- Nedaseungreda

Poems, Stories and Everything Inbetween

Journals from Sam
An oversized rocking chair, wood slowly splintering, as if the emigration of a thousand tiny spines. They rise up, out from within its heavy arms, like flames their flickering reaches for the window, each one a dusty tear blurring its single eye. In order to watch he tilts his own head; doubt blinded by emotion as they begin to spiral toward the black glass. Lids heavy, his slit of concious drawn to a close by the cacophony of what formally had been such seasonal tides; and so this winter hope's grin springs from the warmth of bulbs, the spread of his desk fallen icy cold. Fingers skate before him and yet still the memories sing, twist his ear lobes first east and then west as always, the pendulum swings.

Another moon chimes, the attic silence of old unfolding as if a new born flock of wings, air undulating as their limbs slip from the darkness; and so once again the sands of time begin to decend, each grain drawn from the crest of mourning... herself a falling lament. Flakes of white, her toes reach for the crumpled yellow canvas, narrow eyes drawn against the tumbling shafts of light. Her lashes palms, their silhouttes stencils, petals enveloped by the eternal blue hearth and so she waits, until the sun's incandescent ashes curl around her limbs, begin to swirl within the plams of her cupped hands.

The day blinks; all thoughts suddenly fireflies. The glow of yesterday's embers smoke beneath my soles sat so coldly now upon the doorstep, eyes to the sky, my cradled coffee cup and I; the winds silent reproach. For dreams rise shyly, with wry smiles freckle the night. Stll though I hear them whisper... '...listener? Once woken, be sure to sleep tight.'

Profile Image: Nedaseungreda Part Three, by Matt Black

A List of Past Publications:
1. 'The Book of Apertures', Lazy Gramophone Press: 2009 / 2. 'Echoes of Dawn', Lazy Gramophone Press: 2008. / 3. 'Circle Time', Lazy Gramophone Press: Forth Edition 2010. / 4. 'Circle Time', Lazy Gramophone Press: Third Edition 2008. 5. 'Circle Time', Lazy Gramophone Press: Second Edition 2007. / 6. 'Circle Time'. Lazy Gramophone Press: First Edition 2006. / 7. 'Surroundings', Lazy Gramophone Press: November 2007. / 8. 'Past, Present & Future', Lazy Gramophone Press: May 2007. / 9. 'Under the Influence', Lazy Gramophone Press: February 2007. / 10. 'Make Love to Me', Lazy Gramophone Press: March 2007. / 11. 'Earth Love Magazine': Issue 20, August 2006 & Issue 21, November 2006. / 12. 'Fire Magazine': Issue 27, April 2006. / 13. 'Harlequin Magazine': Issue X, Autumn 2006. / 14.'Obsessed with Pipe Work Magazine': Issue 27, Summer 2004. / 15. 'Partners Magazines': Poet Tree Volume 9, July 2004 & Poet Tree Volume 10, January 2005. / 16. 'The Black Rose Magazine': Issue 17, August 2003; Issue 18, November 2003; Issue 19, February 2004; Issue 20, May 2004; Issue 21, August 2004; Issue 22, November 2004 & Issue 23, February 2005
Words from Sam

  • Journal Archive

    Written on 18/08/10

    After spending ten frustrating minutes attempting to locate a particular paragraph of writing from within my profile, I reluctantly set myself the task of organising my journals into this archive.... read more

  • Hung (Poem taken from Circle Time)

    Written on 18/08/10

    Within the lamp light Huddled around her and me And this lonely table, Humble within tonight's kitchen Of wood and of no sleep, Our eyes swell to double their usual size And words... read more

  • Revolution 5 (Extract taken from Echoes of Dawn)

    Written on 03/02/10

    Quiet as only a morning could be, she crept, the shallow throb of her breath and the ever so slight tread of her feet. The house stood alone, its walls creaking as it waited beneath the orange... read more

  • The Tale of Hunter Stoke & Rusty Blue (Extract ...

    Written on 03/02/10

    H unter Stoke is a thorn nymph, drawn from the gnarled branches of a now lost hedgerow. He wanders the countryside at random, painting colourful dreams upon the retinas of sleeping... read more

  • I Will Not

    Written on 02/02/10

    Image by Dan Prescott I will not bend, and so, does that mean I should be broken? Because to me bending is more painful than breaking, is an endurance I am not prepared for. Too often, the only attempt at... read more

  • Origin

    Written on 02/02/10

    Born from the rhythm of your eyelids, my heart's echoes. Beneath the veils befallen each fingertip, curled, held aloft in sleep our dreams; dream themselves of such semblance, ... read more

  • To Retrun

    Written on 02/02/10

    Our ears… …notebooks …the ink echoes. Each leaf a melody placating my lungs so awkward grown so dry. I listen though, still, after all of these years… ... read more

  • Siren

    Written on 02/02/10

    Such chaos precedes each moment that I can't help but wonder why… Yet upon each break of day my chin raised and back straight I believe in fate again; my eyes drawn to the fabled... read more

  • Becoming

    Written on 02/02/10

    Feels as if the universe itself has stooped to listen, helpless but to wait with me... ...for so slow have become the swaying trees, the ocean's once crashing teeth. During each... read more

  • The Planets

    Written on 02/02/10

    Chapter I: Mine In orbit of our world… an orb: dense and black and deep as history itself. With such heavy rotation and with such persistence the murmur of its passing skies,... read more

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Title: Sam Rawlings
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Sam Says: A History