I hope you check out my chapbook Bleeding Heart. The idea for the title was from one of Ernest Hemingway quotes. The quote is “There is nothing to writing. All you need to do is sit at a typewriter and bleed.” Even though you have writer’s block, just sit and write. At least there is something on paper.
I got into poetry when I was in Elementary School; we had to write a poem that rhymed for class. I wanted to write something funny and ended up writing There is an Elephant in my Closet. Everyone absolutely loved it. So from then on, I continued my writing journey. My favourite poets is Alexander Pushkin. I really love Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”. Love the message that it gives, that each of us has their own path in life and it maybe different from others. I started getting into photography in high school, when my friend was taking pictures of flowers. I always loved flowers and I felt like I could show them in a different light when they never were shown.
They say that poets are like dreamers,
They are right,
Poets write about what is in their heart,
Their perception of things,
What it really is like,
Describe something in an interesting angle,
They tell a story in a way,
Help uncover what is truly there,
Uncover the world,
Uncover the beauty,
This lies beneath it all,
Something to smile about on this planet,
Dreamers wish what they would like,
Like Charlie Chaplin,
To dream is to wish,
To write poetry is to reflect,
And to say it like it is.
Have you ever wished there was a real time machine? Do you want to laugh so hard you cannot breathe? Whatever happened to that old school love? These are the questions of a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. Through heartbreak and loss, nostalgia and delight, Kreistina Blinova fills these pages with beauty. Exploring imagination, sadness, resilience, the magic of poetry and art, the renewal of spring, and the quest for true love, Photographic Poetry is a time capsule.
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