TALL TALES: WITH POPPY NWOSU.
  • BOOKS.
  • About.
  • Blog.
    • ALL.
    • BOOKS. (My Books.)
    • BOOKS (Not My Books.)
    • YA Author Interviews.
    • Ideas About Storytelling.
    • Random Stuff.
  • Contact.
  • NEWSLETTER.
Picture

SONGS AS POETRY: Asta.

12/2/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture




​Dynamite.
Asta.


Been taking my time not thinking about you
Just walking my mind, walking my mind
​

Yeah, I could call but I know I don't have to
'Cause I'm doing alright, feeling alright




0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Can't Wait.

17/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture


Can't Wait.
Millic.



Ocean's clear
No more mirror
Feel inside
Million butterflies
Under daylight

I can’t wait till you come over, ah




​
0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Foals.

28/12/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture


Give it All.

Foals.


Give me something I haven't seen
Give me the red light turning green
Give me the words but not the page
Give me it all
I called you up
Three times last night
Running through the streets
Bloody, from a fist fight
Keep you warm
Keep you there
Wanna keep you all

0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Cool.

24/10/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture



​

Cool.
Troye Sivan.


but nothing is feeling right
I drink but I choke
I love but I don't

I was just trying to be cool
I was just trying to be like you

0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Tulips.

4/10/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture



​Tulips.

Bloc Party.

Were you unawares?
Did it catch you out?
Or did it break you in
Right from the start?

It's as pure as fire
It's as pure as snow
I knew that I'd found you




0 Comments

STORYTIME: SEVEN YEARS.

31/8/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture





​My lovely husband and I got married 7 years ago this week! 

To celebrate I've posted some pictures of our wedding on Lord Howe Island, which is NSW, Australia.

We went by ourselves and had a really lovely time. 



Read More
0 Comments

STORYTIME: New Zealand's North Island.

26/8/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture

On my second trip to NZ I heard this fascinating true story, while travelling through the northern regions of the Auckland area.
Back in the day, there was a group of German people experiencing persecution in their home country due to their religion, and many of these people were forced to leave home and travel to far off countries like Australia and New Zealand.
 
This particular group travelled across Europe to get away (which took approx. a full year) to then board a boat headed for the wild unknown of New Zealand (this journey took another year!).
When they arrive into Auckland, they have been assigned some land to the north to start their new settlement and community. But little do they know, this area is a total forest with nothing cleared. Also, they have been sold this land by the original owners, a Maori clan with enemies to the north, who are hoping this new European community (with their weapons etc.) will help them protect their territories.
​So this group of European men, women and children, who have travelled across the whole world into a total unknown on a one way ticket, are picked up in the Auckland port by Maori warriors on canoes, and brought upstream to their new home.

 
I always imagine that trip.
What would that have felt like for those displaced people?
Unfamiliar terrain, an unknown future, and being canoed to their inhospitable new home by Maori warriors.
History is filled with interesting and strange stories, and I like to sometimes sit down and think about them. ​


0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Saturday Sun.

10/8/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture




​
​Saturday Sun.
Vance Joy.



The long drive, the coastline
Lookin' out at first light
Am I still on her mind?
I've been undone


0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Swimming.

22/7/2018

0 Comments

 
Picture



Swimming.
Summer Soul.


​
Say you want to.
I can bring you to the moon.

You'll come to watch me dancing just for you.
​

Read More
0 Comments

SONGS AS POETRY: Night Terrors

29/6/2018

2 Comments

 
Picture


​​Pursuit of Happiness.

Kid Cudi.


Tell me what you know about dreams
Tell me what you know about the night terrors nothin'



I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know
Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold 

I'll be fine once I get it, get it in

I'll be good
2 Comments
<<Previous
Picture
Picture
  • BOOKS.
  • About.
  • Blog.
    • ALL.
    • BOOKS. (My Books.)
    • BOOKS (Not My Books.)
    • YA Author Interviews.
    • Ideas About Storytelling.
    • Random Stuff.
  • Contact.
  • NEWSLETTER.