Saturday, April 1, 2006

   Spanish Dancer
As on all its sides a kitchen-match darts white
flickering tongues before it bursts into flame:
with the audience around her, quickened, hot,
her dance begins to flicker in the dark room.

And all at once it is completely fire.

One upward glance and she ignites her hair
and, whirling faster and faster, fans her dress
to passionate flames, till it becomes a furnace
from which, like startled rattlesnakes, the long
naked arms uncoil, aroused and clicking.

And then: as if the fire were too tight
around her body, she takes and flings it out
haughtily, with an imperious gesture,
and watches: it lies raging on the floor,
still blazing up, and the flames refuse to die-
Till, moving with total confidence and a sweet
exultant smile, she looks up finally
and stamps it out with powerful small feet.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Well, that be the poem that my last piece is based on. How did I do? I hope I captured the poem well enough... I love Rilke's poems. They have so much feeling in them, though the translations don't have rhymes like the original German. Oh well. Anywho, this one was done on the side because I got a little bored with something else I was doing. Too much detail in the background, meh... So I did this to take a break before I went back to the other one.

*sigh* But, I'm afraid you won't see the other one... After this post, I'm leaving the Otaku. I'm not going to be allowed on anymore, because my over-protective parents decided there was too much bad stuff on the art sites I go to... So, this will have to be goodbye. Sorry, minna...

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... APRIL FOOLS!!!

I had to, sorry. ^^'' I'm not really leaving. Though it is true that my mom won't let me onto deviantART because of some stuff my sister found on there... -.- Grr. Oh well, I'll change her mind eventually.

Still on the subject of art, I haven't posted anything for YuGiOh in a long time... I have something old I might dig out tonight that I could post. And... During one of my theater classes, we had to make up a character sheet for a character we could play, and I sketched my character during the second half of class. It came out all right, though there's no color... Should I post that, too? I'll write down some info about her on the sketch also.

All right, anything else I can say...? Nothing much going on in my life right now. I finally saw Princess Mononoke, which made me very happy. I really liked San (sp?). And Moro's voice was pretty... Though I don't like not being able to see Naruto. -.- But YuGiOh's back! I'm happy again. ^^'' Out of the anime world, just the usual stuff. Chatting with friends, arguing with enemies, singing with my sister (we're dorks, we know), jamming to my iPod... My nephew came back from a long trip and was immediately a twerp again. -.- And my brother-in-law keeps trying to convince me to watch YGO GX... I might try it, who knows. I really want to know what other spells were in that book...

Okay, not much else... Except I got the flu... More like was slammed by the flu... Man, that was awful. -.- My father got it, passed it to my mom and I, we passed it to my sister and her friend, said sister passed it to my bro-in-law, and it's still going. Yeesh. Oh well, I'm (mostly) better now.

This post is waaaay long. I'll leave you all alone now. ^^'' Bye bye!

~ Roae
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