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The MelanCollie
At the end of any romantic adventure
The happiest moments become the saddest
The moonlight dinners, the sunset beaches, the quiet of a still morning
Are enough to drive one to madness
Why does ending have such perverting power?
Why can teardrops wilt a once-blooming flower?
If they didn't, we would be forever trapped in that moment, unable to move on.
So the MelanCollie comes, no one knows where from.
She snuggles you while you sleep
She licks your eyes and digs deep
Within your mind and colors those memories with sadness, neatly
So you can only think of them bitter-sweetly
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Darling (I Miss You)
I miss you darling
And all that you are
No matter where I am
You seem so very far
I miss you darling
And the good times we've had
All the great stuff we did
And all of the bad
We were so great
But we had to tempt fate
And realized too late
Where it all went wrong
I miss you darling
I'll always love you
But, through all that happens
Will you love me too?
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Forgotten Spirits
When the sun goes down
and the world is a shade darker
a shade smoother
without its harsh rays
The moonlight paints it's silv'r picture
across a deserted stage
and the forgotten wonder back
to dance once more between
the moonbeams
They stumble through once wooded lanes
They wade through fields of lamp-posts
toward their now imagined homes.
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Forever
The air is cold and sharp
My drives long and lonely
But though my Red and I are miles apart
She's still my one and only
And someday, under the tall oal tree
On top of a friendly mountain
We'll be joined in a way none,
Not even Death, can seperate
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I Fall Asleep
I fall asleep in a bed that's too large
Too big for the want of one to help fill it
To help fill its vast expanse
of sheets
and quilts
and pillows
This bed, too large, makes me lonely for you
I fall asleep in a bed that's too cold
Too cold for the want of a body to warm it
To help warm its icy regions
of folds
and creases
and wrinkles
This bed, too cold, makes me lonely for your warmth
I fall asleep in a bed that's too simple
Too simple in the shape of its occupant
Of its occupant's still slumbering
of dreamless
of loveless
and solitude
This bed, too simple, makes me lonely for your shape
I wake up to a life that's the same
The same as yesterday, as the bed
And the same it will always be
Tomorrow and
Tomorrow and
all Tomorrows
This life, too similar, makes me lonely for your change
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Worldbuilding Tips: FOOD
Food! The greatest part of being alive!
I find that developing a culture’s cuisine can be incredibly helpful for several reasons. For one, you are elaborating on the physical experiences of your world and culture. Like all sensory descriptions, this can immerse you and your reader. For another, you can learn a lot about a culture by what they eat, including geography, economics, social status, even religious laws. And lastly, because it’s a lot of fun!
1. Geography: one of the greatest contributors to food culture. If your people dwell in the desert, it’s unlikely they’ll have seaweed salad on the menu. Start researching foods from similar geographical landscapes from our world. For example, following a desert theme, look into food from Saharan tribes, or, depending on the kind of desert, foods from the tribes of the American southwest. Consider farming and agriculture in your particular landscape. What can be grown and raised there?
2. Trading: does your culture have extensive trade with a nearby culture? Say your desert culture has a lengthy trade route that extends far into the jungles, and they can trade for exotic dried spices they can’t grow at home.
3. Social Status: what can your people afford? What is the difference between what a beggar, a middle class merchant, and a noble or royal would eat? Can they afford more imported goods? Can they afford more spices? Are vegetable and grain dishes more common, as in Ancient Rome, among lower classes, and meat more common among upper classes?
4. Religious and social laws: what foods are off-limits? Why are they off-limits? Is anyone of a particular social or religious class allowed to partake, and laymen are never allowed?
5. Drinks!: don’t forget, many cultures’ drinks are as important in regional cuisine as the food itself. What is the treatment for alcohol? Does one have to be a certain age to drink? Is alcohol illegal, or heavily monitored? Are there drinking rituals or games common to this culture?
6. Special cuisine: are there some traditional foods eaten only on special occasions? In the West, many have cakes for their weddings, and in the United States, on Thanksgiving, many eat turkey. What festivals, holidays, and other miscellaneous special occasions are there? For example, if there is a public feast day, what can be adequately served to large amounts of people and be prepared beforehand? If there are foods or spices that are especially expensive, do people splurge on these for special occasions?
7. Cooking techniques: are there any food preparation methods not seen in other cultures? Are these techniques integral to the culture’s cuisine? For example, say a race of gremlins chooses to cook their food not with fire, but with fumes from acid? What would these techniques do to flavour, texture? Can other cultures stomach food prepare with these techniques?
8. Dessert: the best part, in my opinion. What are some guilty pleasure foods? Remember, dessert does NOT have to be sweet. Desserts can just be palate-cleansers or small snacks served at the end of the main meal. Are desserts only for the wealthy, or for everyone?
9. Street food: what are the most common staples in the culture? Is there a tradition of serving these staples in unique ways? Are there restaurants, pubs, inns, etc.?
10. Why is Food Important?: food, like any other worldbuilding detail, must be interpreted with its effects on characters and plot. Plot points can be created out of food-related issues. For example:
Prohibition: a once widely-loved drink or food has been outlawed. How does the populace respond? Does a black market form? Is the Prohibition a success, or a big mistake?
Supremacy: is a food, drink, or spice extremely expensive, and several groups are fighting for control of trade?
Famine: are food or clean water incredibly scarce? How do the people survive?
Extinction: a valuable plant or animal, after being overfarmed or overhunted, is going extinct. If this valuable plant or animal is central to the cultural economy, how does the culture respond?
Those are just a few questions you can ask yourself while creating food culture for your worlds! Personally, I’ve always enjoyed exploring food culture. I like to try to make my fantasy recipes in the real world too, and through research and experimentation, you might come up with something totally unique.
Hope this helps, and hope you have fun!
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Religion is a massive part of your World Building. Like Religion in our own world, Religion in fictional worlds are controversial, varied and are a huge part of our society. Put simply; your world is dependent on the complexity of your Religion to indicate how your people act, what their morals are and basically how they live. Interconnectivity is a big part of World Building, and Religion is connected to everything in this case. So when crafting a religion, you have to take into account the territory you beliefs hold, the amount of time it has been around, the economy, political influences and geography of your land. From those small building blocks, you can craft a religion which is complex and something that could be unique to your world.
The Basics of Crafting a Religion
To start yourself off in building your Religion you need to ask yourself the following questions, and your Religion must answer them:
- Where do we go when we die?
- How was life created?
- What morals should your people live by?
These questions are the basics of crafting your Religion and by answering these provide your world with a basic feeling of spirituality that is important for civilizations. However, no all these questions have to be answered for you to form a religion. Maybe only one or two questions are answered. This gives your religion unique qualities and if you have many religions in your world a variety.
Variation on Religion
In order for your Religion to seem realistic in your world, you must provide a variation in beliefs and reasons behind such an occurrence. If your Religion is the most dominant one on a continent, you have to consider how it became that way. One way a particular belief becomes popular is through absorbing other smaller religions. They take their gods or moral rules and change them to fit their narrative. This would definitely create different beliefs and interpretations inside your Religion.
The way your Religion can also become popular is that it should have gain and loss element to it. How much does a worshiper gain from following that Religion and how much do they lose. By deciding that your then can determine how realistic the popularity our Religion would be.
There are other factors that must be considered when creating a religion which how much territory or land your Religion dominates or is in, the number of followers and the age of it. If your Religion has more territory, followers and is quite an old variation and different interpretation will be inevitable. However, if your Religion is young and has a small following, they would be more agreement.
Interconnectivity
Like every element of world building religion is connected and effects everything in your fictional world. The complexity and uniqueness of your fictional Religion depends on how much it links to the different aspects of your society. If your Religion is very intertwined in the society from the economy to culture, you will then make a world that feels realistic in its depth and complexity. The way to do this is to consider a few different aspects in your society and ask yourself how your Religion would affect this societal structure.
To show the culture your Religion promotes is to show how the beliefs would affect people in day to day life. How does your Religion change their weekly routine? What kind of relationship do they have with the gods? Is it a sibling or a parental-like relationship?
You will also have to ask yourself how it would affect the economy. If your Religion has a heavy influence on the military, the most popular job would be a soldier, a lot of money would put into that industry. Which leads nicely into the effects Religion has on politics. This depends on the type of Religion as there are different influences they would have. If your Religion is monotheistic, you would have more centralized power. With a more united front, your monotheistic Religion would have a lot of influences over politics often deciding your leaders. However, if your Religion is polytheistic, it would definitely would not have centralized power as you would different factions for each aspect of your Religion therefore not having a united front. This concept would cause less power of the political landscape.
Another aspect you would have to consider is the geography of your world. For example, if your civilization rely on a large river to survive you people would naturally worship the river and may even have a river god!
Extra Notes
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Remember
Don't forget that your heroes had heroes
Giants whose shoulders they stood upon
Helping them in stories to conquer foes
Fighting what mightn't've been won
Don't forget that your villains have demons
Against which they, too, fight
And though, to you, they're villains
They also only seek the light
Don't forget that people are people
Though sometimes you do forget
That each one's a heart, a soul
And every person you've ever met
Walks along a unique road
Not one of them should be slowed
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Smoke
A scrap of paper made to roll
A famous plant which takes its toll
And those who know it whole
Smoke it still, and think it droll
It takes its hold when they are young
And many songs of it are sung
By those 'tween whose lips it's hung
It colors teeth the shade of dung
To beat it: the gum, the patch
Or keep away from flame or match
Its love is a sickness you can catch
Until in a box they you do latch
The name of this villain don't forget
Big, though small, the cigarette
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Home (Sonnet #5)
When the stars no longer shine
Then I'll take your hand in mine
And through the moon light's threads
Guide you 'round the trail's bends
Until we reach home, safe and sound,
Our feet no more are homeward bound
And down we'll firmly sit
When there we fin'ly get
Looking lovingly on it all
Everything, great and small,
That round us spreads in fading light,
On what we protect with all our might
And contented we will be
This place no more to ever leave
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Bros before Hoes
Contented content kindly catered
Found for friends, greatly gathered,
Enjoy it now, leaving later
Buzzed on brotherhood, partly plastered
Then enters a stunning beauty
Cousing conflict there
Making to suffer most unduly
That party's happy air
Up rose then a champion,
Standing, strong, and brave
Though she droned, on and on
To list he was not a slave
But rebuffed with chant that 'ho'e
That, before her kind, there come bros
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Hope + Love
How quiet the night seems
Only the scratching and scraping
Of my pen do I hear and
The gentle breaths escaping
On quiet nights I sit alone
In the inky black of darkness
And write with no candle
my deepest thoughts to harness
When the writing stops at last
And all my thoughts recorded
I shut my eyes against a world I cannot see
And with dreams I am rewarded
A woman in white approaches
But hidden is her facefrom me
Arom heaven down to earth she flew
But yet her face I cannot see
She closer grows and steps beside me
then I realize how mistaken
Not, as I thought, into a dream,
But from one I've awakened
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My Heart
You're my heart
If I lost you, I'd die;
It's hard to go on
When you say goodbye
I know you'll be back
By the end of each day
So in bed, alone,
I gently lay
And wait for you
To come through
The door, a happy veiw,
And when you finally do,
Never do you disappoint me
When your face each night I see
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The Lord's Love
The Lord's love fills my homeland
You'll find it all around
It dons the spring in flowers
Clothes the grass upon the ground
It feeds the birds of the sky
Who reapeth not, nor sow,
Nor do they gather into barns
What He sees fit to grow
The lilies of the field
Which are so richly robed
He's made them more handsome
Than the kings of old
So don't worry about tomorrow
Or be anxious, friends
You're much more precious than they
And also in His hands
From when no one can send you
Since a deed which none can undo
Matthew 6:25-34
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(If You Woukd Only) Be Mine
If you would only be mine
I would always be yours
Baby, we'd be so fine
You I'd always adore
If you would only be mine
I would always be true
Baby it'd be so fine
I would always love you
I can see a future for us
When we meet I hear a chorus
From a sweet, old song of love
If you'd accept this band of gold
I know your hand I'd always hold
'Til we meet again above
If you would always be mine
I would love you forever
Darling, please be mine
Let's always be together
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Sonnet for a Lover
My heart does softly flutter
When you do lovely mutter
And mean, I hope you do
Those words:"I love you,"
And When you speak them so
More love in me they sew,
And reap their own repeat
In tones both low and sweet
That the love May die or pass
Or someday cease to last
Wethink not, nor contemplate
For that thought we both do hate
And so consider it never more,
But now we love forevermore.
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