KaleidoScope: Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Rosie_Scope

Gorgeous photos @wanderer, so atmospheric! The lighting is so striking in both of them.

wanderer

Thank you @Rosie_Scope @Sandy_123 @Albus_Scope @Pandapaws @Beaver79 wonderful to hear your comments, have been thinking for a few years of maybe stepping into the world of selling my photos. I have some stunners from all over the world.

Rosie_Scope

I think that's a great idea @wanderer, I'm sure you'd get some customers!

wanderer

@Rosie_Scope thank you, thats made me smile. When i settle back down in one place i think i will. 

bookrabbit

Some photos taken during  our stay in emergency housing:



I so dreaded being homeless but it turned out to be a very soft landing!! Who could have predicted that. It just goes to show how pointless worrying is because nothing turns out the way you imagine it!!

bookrabbit

The soft landing we experienced can be contrasted with the fears I expressed in this poem last year:

15 February 2023

Flotsam

I try to tell myself that if I can make myself a home here in the pig shed then I can make one anywhere

 But I am getting weak and find it hard to breathe

 I don’t have the energy to make another home

 And I don’t have the money or the social skills to get one 
I worry about becoming homeless
 I search the internet in the depths of the night for a well balanced handcart because I can’t carry much and I fear being cold and wet

 I wish that I could still drive so I could buy a van and live in that

 But I can’t feel my feet and the movement of a vehicle makes me dizzy and I panic at the very thought 
I have fallen so far but still I fear to fall further 
I have lost so many homes 
Left so many countries 
If I belong anywhere it is here in the garden where I first played fifty years ago before I wandered off across the ocean and where I floated back to as flotsam having been tumbled and jumbled by the tides of life 

But the ground under me does not belong to me and the money that could be got for it is wanted for other people’s projects and I don’t matter enough to anyone for my needs to count in anyone else’s equation
 So I am left with too many variables and too few boundary conditions. My life is insoluble and frightening.
 I have no future that I can imagine.

 A threat to take my home is a threat to take my life.

Albus_Scope

Amazing words AND pics there @bookrabbit

wanderer

@bookrabbit loved the pics. The poem is very powerful. I enjoy writing poetry, I find it a great way of expressing myself. Does it help you. 

Pandapaws

@bookrabbit lovely photos and very powerfully written poem. I think you could write a book about it all as you’re obviously very talented at writing.

Sandy_123

@bookrabbit l9ved the pics and poem

bookrabbit

Thanks all:) I didn't actually think that the poem had posted because the preview scrambled the formatting and when I tried to correct it it disappeared half way through editing.

I do find writing poetry really therapeutic although I have to be in the right mood and haven't done as much recently with my life so chaotic. Hopefully I will be able to concentrate enough to start again once we are in our new house.

wanderer

Afternoon all. I am a poet so thought I would try and put my experience of chronic pain int words.

My Pain

 

It feels like a battle

And I am weary

Fighting against an invisible enemy

Thunder and lightning

Surging through my hands

Excruciating

Crushed bones

Every night

Waking me in misery

Silently screaming in my mind

Seven long years

Agony

From the soles of my feet

To my throbbing temples

Every movement shrouded in torment

Tiredness shrouds my body

My memory is a mist full of holes

How can I start the day with a smile

When all inside me feels wounded

Guilt and insecurity roar

Got to keep going

That’s what my head tells me

Don’t let the pain win

The fight is there to be won

But sometimes

I want to curl into a ball

Pretend I don’t exist

Just for a while

But it won't let me hide

I hand it my power

Far too quickly at times

Then the anger rises

At being so weak

Frustration coils around me

Like a boa squeezing its prey

It's hard to do what is right

When a fog clenches your thoughts

I miss my vibrancy

I want my energy back

A day without pain

What a gift that would be

 

 

 

Adrian_Scope

Hello @wanderer, I'm not usually a big fan of poetry but your writing is really powerful and so emotive, it really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry to hear how much of a battle each day can be. 

wanderer

Hi @Adrian_Scope as a poet connecting to people who dont normally enjoy poetry is really powerful for us. I am so glad you appreciated it, and thanks for your kind words. 

wanderer

Thank you @Beaver79

MaxAardvarkWisbey

Figured i'll start with my profile picture
He's one of my characters i made from moshi monsters, drawn on my ipad. Might post some others if people want to see?
 

Sandy_123

It's a great pic @MaxAardvarkWisbey

MaxAardvarkWisbey

@Sandy_123 thank you

Sandy_123

I might do some sketching tomorrow not done any for awhile 

CATP

Rosie_Scope said:

Good luck with your project @CATP, logo's looking good! 

Love the rainbow @durhamjaide2001!

Gorgeous blue skies @becw, I find nature really calming too.

HI @Ros@Rosie_Scope sorry just noticed your reply,ive been obsessed with a computer game called riders republic lately.

the project is still onhand,id like to make nightlife to be as acessible for everyone as possible.

i have recently finished off a A5 artwork that has taken months to make the background on,using a lot of different mediums. i based it on a well known computer game called STRAY which is about a cat who loses his way with his gaggle of friends,he falls and hurts himself so after coming round hes woke up in a jungle like cyberpunk world,and its all about his journey atempting to get back to his home...my dad did the writing for me and ive gone over it with a sharpie.ive also used a couple of fine liners and water colour paint and pencil shading on the piping. the cat face thing is the logo for the game.