Vincent

In The Spirit of Halloween...

Vincent
A Poem By Tim Burton

Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He's polite and always does as he's told
For a boy his age, he's considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price

He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog, and cats
Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he has invented and wander dark hallways alone and tormented

Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog Abocrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So that he and his horrible zombie dog
could go searching for victims in the London fog

His thoughts aren't only of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time
While other kids read books like "Go Jane Go"
Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allen Poe.

One night while reading a gruesome tale
he read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive

He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom
where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife.

While alone and insane incased in his doom
Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room
She said, "If you want, you can go out and play
It's sunny outside and a beautiful day."

Vincent tried to talk but he just couldn't speak
the years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
"I'm possessed by this house and can never leave it again."

His mother said, "You are NOT possessed and you are NOT almost dead
These games you play are all in your head
You are NOT Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy
You're not tormented or insane, you're just a young boy
You're seven years old, and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun."

Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
While Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to sway, to shiver and creak
His horrored insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abocrombie, his zombie slave
and heard his wife call from beyond the grave

She spoke through her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
swept his mad laughter to terrified screams

To escape the badness, he reached for the door
but fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe:
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted...Nevermore."

Crystal Eyes of Blue

That night in autumn
When we first met
Was a magical time
I will never forget

I sat across the room
And watched you from afar
I didnt think I would meet
      the man of my dreams
In a night club bar

The next time I saw you
We danced the night away
Your smile warmed my heart
Like a bright, sunny day

Dancing to a slow song
Looking into your crystal
            eyes of blue
Your heart beating close to mine
I fell in love with you!

With Love
      Forever,
Sandy

Sleepless Nights

Lately its become that i say goodbye to you as you go to work and i try to fall asleep ... but sleep doesnt come so easily... ill end up writing or doing homework or sorting music for the hundredth time... my sleepless nights have just become yet another part of my life that is now stuck in a rut... i do the same stuff everyday... i dont even have to look at my work schedule anymore because i already know what its going to be... i need to do something exciting.. something intreging... but what... i need a spark of creativity .. a muse.. anything to get me out of this rut...

Random Convos!

Soooooo... i was told to blog about our phone call... so here you go!

* Argument about nothing!

*Dusting

*OCD with closets and drawers

*Stink Bugs

*Songs about wigs

*Prezi

*and of course your favorite... Quacking Ducks!!!!

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death..."

"The headstone was only two rows behind Kendra and Ariana's. It was made of white marble, just like Dumbledore's tomb, and this made it easy to read, as it seemed to shine in the dark. Harry did not need to kneel or even approach very close to it to make out the words engraved upon it.
           
            James Potter                  Lily Potter
     Born 27 March 1960       Born 30 January 1960
   Died 31 October 1981       Died 31 October 1981
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

Harry read the words slowly, as though he would have only one chance to take in their meaning, and he read the last of them aloud. 'The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death...' a horrible thought came to him , and with it a kind of panic. 'Is'nt that a Death Eater idea? Why is that there?'"

I had the same question as Harry when i started researching the quote for my eventual deathly hallows tattoo...
while scouring the Internet i found the perfect answer posted by someone named Cedric on yahoo answers.... i thought i would share it with you...

James and Lily had accepted death. James accepted it when he chose to fight Voldemort to his death in their home, and when Lily died willingly to protect her son. At the end of the last book, Harry was able to accept death and embrace it for the good of those he loved, and in doing that, death was no longer an enemy.

You conquer death when you are not afraid to die.

Also, that quote was taken from the Bible (1 Corinthians 15:20-26):

"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

If you look at the quote contextually, it also has further meaning. At the end of Deathly Hallows, when Harry "conquers" death by accepting it and submitting himself to Voldemort, and he is then "reborn", very much like Christ.

Harry Potter has a handful of biblical allusions if you care to look.


so i thank you Cedric.. this answered it perfectly and it also added another meaning to it as well... 

Sick Days....

You know those days when you have a ton to do.... and you wake up in the morning sick as a dog...

Thats how i feel today...

I gotta get my car fixed

I gotta work on college stuffs

I gotta work on my book

but all i wanna do is lay in bed and watch old movies.