one-liners – the laurel tree https://thelaureltree.net Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:52:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31022107 Pockets https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/09/pockets/ https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/09/pockets/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:30:09 +0000 https://thelaureltree.net/?p=1617 Pockets are very important. Low how careless the universe its – it dropped the sun again.

I love sunsets

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and cast its shadows out.
What a beautiful exorcism.

On my ride home from work in the evenings, I would see this tree, this scene. It’s beautiful, isn’t it – this conjunction of tree and sunset.
]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/03/sunbathing/feed/ 0 1595 “Raining” https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/03/raining/ https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/03/raining/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2017 14:30:23 +0000 https://thelaureltree.net/?p=1600 If the sun exorcises the tree by
casting out its shadows, then
the rain’s way is to torch it in
a cold misty blaze.

The rain adds a certain dreaminess, a certain sadness. A wistfulness.
]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2017/12/03/raining/feed/ 0 1600 red ink https://thelaureltree.net/2013/10/14/red-ink/ https://thelaureltree.net/2013/10/14/red-ink/#respond Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:40:33 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=914 she stabbed a pen through her eye and felt better, for at least that was a hole she could understand, punched in the frustrating sieve of her mind. and that red pen bled over reams of paper in pretty scarlet scrawls. one eye was all she could afford so she stabbed her thigh, to ensure the ink would never run dry.

]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2013/10/14/red-ink/feed/ 0 914 a vampire’s mind https://thelaureltree.net/2012/12/27/a-vampires-mind/ https://thelaureltree.net/2012/12/27/a-vampires-mind/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:53:09 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=678 i ram the sun back into the throat of dawn till it chokes and passes out. over, and over, and over again.

for some of us, when the day passes into night, we may never see another morning.

 

]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2012/12/27/a-vampires-mind/feed/ 0 678 circular logic https://thelaureltree.net/2012/03/04/circular-logic/ https://thelaureltree.net/2012/03/04/circular-logic/#respond Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:47:19 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=540 teabags in hot water, washing machines, bicycles.
a few cycles, and the flavour is gone, the load over, the destination reached.

so live harder. before your cycle is over.

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]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2012/01/10/monsters-in-my-backpack/feed/ 0 474 be a ‘hopeless’ romantic https://thelaureltree.net/2012/01/09/be-a-hopeless-romantic/ https://thelaureltree.net/2012/01/09/be-a-hopeless-romantic/#respond Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:58:47 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=460 they say romantics are hopeless, but it is the surfeit of arrogance that leads to the forfeit of dreams. without idealists, what are we?

]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2012/01/09/be-a-hopeless-romantic/feed/ 0 460 hungry bird https://thelaureltree.net/2011/10/05/hungrybird/ https://thelaureltree.net/2011/10/05/hungrybird/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:55:58 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=43 so the bird pecked at the girl till she bled, and the pain distracted her from mortal troubles.

]]> https://thelaureltree.net/2011/10/05/hungrybird/feed/ 0 43 on not clicking with colleagues https://thelaureltree.net/2011/05/05/on-not-clicking-with-colleagues/ https://thelaureltree.net/2011/05/05/on-not-clicking-with-colleagues/#respond Thu, 05 May 2011 02:55:51 +0000 http://www.thelaureltree.net/?p=73 being unable to talk crap must be considered one of the worst ways to die in civilised societies. add to that being unable to just talk.

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