Monthly Archives: August 2018

Are you a rebel writer?

“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.” – Samuel Butler coined the writing-in-rebellion term perfectly.

Almost two hundred years later, I would like to be a student at the Colleges of Unreason from Erewhon and apply for the study of hypothetics. To learn just to watch and notice and to “quiet my cleverness” to see the world with eyes wide open.

The science of hypothetics resides above us in a not-so-mythical nebula that hosts all of the marvelous things awaiting to be discovered, invented or written.

Keep it simple
Look at any concept or idea with baby eyes, allow your mind to travel and unravel more with the help of senses, not reason. The question to ask yourself is: ” How can you explain it to a seven-year-old?” And this is how you write it.

Do your due diligence
Prepare to become a miner for words. Imagine you are the keeper of a wordmine. It has secret galleries and dangerous passageways. You have to know what you are writing about so be prepared for a thorough research. We need to drill and excavate and blast through a huge amount of rock before we find a vein of gold. Research the industry, harvest the short tail and long tail keywords you wish to perform for your articles and SEO writing.

Write in your readers’ secret alphabet
I am in love with secret alphabets, this love especially shines in my poems and gives me happiness and freedom. Writing is a ladder to exploring new worlds and the nebula full of secret alphabets eager to be deciphered in order to invent new things and write new stories.

Don’t use weasel words
Start with the truest sentences that you know. Writers are the luckiest as new stories and new businesses bear the mark of their creativity and innovation.
At the first meeting with a copywriting client I keep in mind that people are stories on two legs, my job is to convince them to share their story or give me hints to start with. Beneath every business there is a real life story of passion and strive.

And last but not the least always keep in mind to:
“Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” – Kurt Vonnegut

After gathering info, you are allowed to choose the most penetrating and exquisite words ever. The tall tale is yours … and ours.
“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.” – Charles Eames

Art by Alexander Leydenfrost.

I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Melt

Melt – Written for the Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective

I have shared
land and sky
with you.
I have tasted
blood and honey.
My witch-oil turned
to dragon-fire
at your touch…

Soft fingers laid asleep
until your turmoil
woke them
for so long….

It feels like getting drunk
on old reddish wine
long softened
during times of
War
Equanimity
and
Comets.

What shall I pour in your glass?
Molten flowers
Golden ink
Lucid light
Unicorn mirth…

I dig your veins
for gold.
I find pure
bitter-sweet
amber nuggets.

I fear any story
whose ink
my words
can’t drink…
Yet I drip in yours
ever since.

When your arms call
and your lips
read all my feral kisses
How can there be no heaven?

© Iulia Halatz

I am delighted that this poem was included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Writers of the Imperfect Maps

The naiads have splurged with roses.
Swirls of scented air hover above their clearings.
Without petals and stars they cannot dwell
beneath the glass shine…
Day dreamers see their unfading beauty
in the sands of the fountains.

Their love is
imprecise
built on a foundation
of unicorn-green grass…

Their skeleton
is composed of myrtle and oleander
and moss-covered lungs
heave along with waters driven
by tide…

Their flesh is irrational atoms
that laugh the blood
and rhythm of life
in the veins
that sing the helplessness blues.
White hymnal doors
flung open
on Midsummer’s Eve
at the harvest of ripe and lofty words
and lady’s bedstraw
they found
in the flicker of buried treasures.

Their words shield
the scent of a tuberose
and shelter
the spoils of the evening.

They sing in the wind
“Leave this war with me!”
It is never too late
nor too soon
to wager
on a tear.

These are no Great Songs of indifference
They are the Great Songs of out-of-time
and out-of-life
that light
this new dominion
which is the old…

29 petals of all the flowers
in the world
line up to write a map
draw sounds and borders
in as many secret alphabets
as breathing proof that

Language is not like the sun,
heating and scorching
but like the moon
keeping secrets
and the arcane magic of the night
throwing stars
in the lilacs’ claws
till dawn.

Words are lamps
they shimmer in the vilest of places.
They make dreams
out of particles and matter.
The words in the
29 secret alphabets
burn for all.

© Iulia Halatz

Written in celebration of the Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective.
I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Photo by Cecil Beaton – Lillian Gish 1929

A list of wounds

We are all broken flowers
We have seen the moon smiling
The waves crashing
The shimmer and thunder of springs
The blazing lightning of pain
When regluing the chinks in our hearts
a hundredfold again…

We have seen the tremble of a leaf
in mid-November
When it falls
and lies defeated
like giant spiky stones
we shuffle our feet on
and bleed…

How do you heal a wound?
First you burn it
in agonizing awe
Then you stitch it
with words in threads
that last
more than the last
Spring

© Iulia Halatz

Art by Vladimir Kush.

I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Art

“Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”― Seth Godin

Art by Eyvind Earle.