Rain

Details:

Hair: Entwined: Ashley / Dark Browns, Fameshed
Eyes: Inkheart: Uran, Fame & Fortune Hunt 2 (Thanks InkHeart!)
Pants: Gizza: Mira / Sequin Jean, Black, Kinky
Top: Teefy: Emma, Luxebox March
Earrings: Supernatural: Gift, Se7en
Necklace: Mato: Bird's nest collar, green, gacha
Shoes: E-Clipse: Coquette, Black, On9
Nails: Plastik: Blush Flakes, old We<3RP
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Persefona, 2
Location: Maru kado

Windlight: Canimod

Sea of Dreams

Over the edge of the purple down,
   Where the single lamplight gleams,
Know ye the road to the Merciful Town
   That is hard by the Sea of Dreams – 
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
   And the sick may forget to weep?
But we – pity us! Oh, pity us!
   We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day – 
   Back from the City of Sleep!

Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,
   Fetter and prayer and plough – 
They that go up to the Merciful Town,
   For her gates are closing now.
It is their right in the Baths of Night
   Body and soul to steep,
But we – pity us! ah, pity us!
   We wakeful; oh, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day –
   Back from the City of Sleep!

Over the edge of the purple down,
   Ere the tender dreams begin,
Look – we may look – at the Merciful Town,
   But we may not enter in!
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall
   Back to our watch we creep:
We – pity us! ah, pity us!
   We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We that go back with Policeman Day –
   Back from the City of Sleep!

(The City of Sleep by Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936)

Details:

Hair: No Match: No Other, Hello Tuesday
Shoes: Hilly Haalan: Lila Pumps, Hello Tuesday
Shirt: Ricielli: Anika, Hello Tuesday
Lipstick: Glam Affair: Medison, Catwa, SET 4, Kustom9 gacha
Eyebrows: Oo Yuki: Vor Brows 04, Catwa, Kustom9 gacha
Skirt: Entice: My Happy Ending, Black, Tres Chic
Earrings: Slackgirl: Viper, Designer Circle gift
Skin: 7 Deadly Skins: Tessie, chestnut, omega, Designer Circle gift
Eyes: Inkheart: Soul, Mandala Blue, World Tour 2017 hunt
Nails: La Boheme: Imbolc, Skin Fair gift
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Aishka Pose 2 R, old Color Me
Location: Ocho Tango Place
Windlight: region

High mountains are a feeling

I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High mountains are a feeling....

- Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824

Details:

Skin: Pumec: May, 8, Skin fair
Shoes: Ingenue: Madison Booties, Rose, Two-Tone, FLF
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Viola, FLF Exclusive
Top: Foxes: Teddy Bear Hoodie, Luxebox
Skirt: Tres Blah: Juniper Mini Skirt, Luxe Box
Eyes: Inkheart: Loving, Safire (Thanks InkHeart!)
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Persefona, 3

Location: Hazardous
Windlight: region

Fairy Dark

Today's location, The Forest Beyond, is an exhibit by Ceakay Ballyhoo. Inara Pey wrote a great post about it, with more details. I went to a reading at the sim by Caledonia Skytower from Seanchai Library, she is such a charismatic reader. They said there might be a second reading later on. The sim has a story you can follow, that includes many of the characters and places (just look for the rocks with "story" on them), but CK is collecting writings about it by other people, too. I liked the use of imagery and writing together. And the art is very unique in style.

Details:

Shoes: Essenz: Cordoba, Pink, Maitreya, One Billion Rising gift
Eyes: Oo Yuki: Nou Eye 10, Catwa, gacha, Kustom9
Skin: Glam Affair: Kika, Catwa, Jamaica 02, Gacha Garden
Headband: Luas: Cute & Creepy, Gacha Garden
Flowers: Naminoke: Love-in-idleness bouquet #1
Nails: CB: Shelly Valentine Nail Color, 2nd Level, dollarbie
Hair: Like: Malama, 50L promo
Outfit: Glitch: Candy, color hud, Swank
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own
Pose: Icons Of Style: Persefona #4

Location: Mistwood Isle & CKB Art Gallery - The Forest Beyond
Windlight: Fairy Dark Blue (Paulina)

When I do count the clock that tells the time

When I do count the clock that tells the time, 
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; 
When I behold the violet past prime, 
And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves 
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves 
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, 
Then of thy beauty do I question make, 
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow; 
   And nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defence
   Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. 

Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare

Details:

Skin: Pumec: Lucky Letter 1, group lucky board
Hair: Elua: Micah, Black pack, The Mens Dept
Earrings: Doe: Heartbeat, The Gacha Garden
Eyes: Song: Mao: Brown, The Gacha Garden
Shoes: G&D: Hart to Hart, Suede, pink, Hello Tuesday
Pants: Vision: S&F Jeans, Beatrice, Dark Gray, Hello Tuesday
Nails: Livia: Valentine, Truth or Dare 2
Sweater: KC: Cassie
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Aishka Pose 2 R, old Color Me

Location: Exhibit by River Eden at Vision of Beauty Art Complex
Windlight: Bryn Oh's Bluniverse

A lovely mile

Details:

My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
Thirst's all-in-all in all a world of wet.

Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise
You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile
Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size
At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile
's not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather — as skies
Betweenpie mountains — lights a lovely mile.

My own heart let me more have pity on by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Skin: Essences: CorrieD02, #10, gacha
Eyes: Inkheart: Soul, Brown Sugar (Thanks InkHeart!)
Jacket: L&B Swear: Zipp Leather Jacket, Womens, Oxblood
Shoes: ChicChica: Laurinda Noir, The Gacha Garden
Jewellery: Bubble: Crystal Amulet Set, The Gacha Garden
Pants: Paper Arrow: Cuffed Cordyroy pants, FLF
Hair: Clawtooth: Up and Away Essentials Pack, FLF
Nails: Nail Me: Mmm Coffee, Ball of Yarn Hunt

Pose: Icons Of Style: Persefona #1

Windlight: Annan Adored Light Explosion II
Location: Elin Egoyan exhibit at Paris Metro Art Gallery

Can't quite see in the mist.

I love these raw moist dawns with
a thousand birds you hear but can't
quite see in the mist.
My old alien body is a foreigner
struggling to get into another country.
The loon call makes me shiver.
Back at the cabin I see a book
and am not quite sure what that is.

Another Country by Jim Harrison

Details:

Dress: Velvet Whip: Charlotte, Plum, 30LS
Shoes: ChicChica: Kendra, The Gacha Guardians group gift
Bangles: Secrets: Morrocos, Gold, TGG group gift
Skin: Birth: Willow, Catwa, Tone 06 - 1, TGG gacha
Nails: Alaskametro: Gala, Champagne, On9
Hair: Amacci: Prudence, Brown Pack
Necklace: Black Bantam: Gold Moon Drop Choker, Polar Bear Tangled Lights Gacha
Eyes: Lotus: Emotivi 23 RARE, Dreamful Event
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: IOS: Aishka, 1 L
Location: Avalon Celtic Harbor
Windlight: Bristol

The threat of frost

and with a hidden sting
just brush our faces
at twilight. The threat
of frost, a premonition
a warning, a whisper
whose words we cannot
yet decipher but will.
- The late year by Marge Piercy
Details:

Skin: WoW: 2016 Taylor Darktan Catwa appl., sale
Lipstick: Alaskametro: Creme Red, sale
Boots: Slipper: Nina, Black, 60WE
Dress: TRS Designs: Taylor, Black, Black Friday gift
Horns: Luas: Estrella, pink, Black Friday gift
Face glitter: Adored: glitter frex, Black Friday gift
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Belle, FLF Exclusive
Necklace: Maxi Gossamer: Karina Court, FLF
Bracelet: Maxi Gossamer: Ritzy Shimmer Pearls, sale
Nails: Livia: Glitz, old hunt
Eyes: Buzz: Chromatic, Spectre RARE, Epiphany

Pose: Icons Of Style: Rafaella, Color Me Project

Pet: Black Bantam: Editorial Fawn Promo Photo, Epiphany
Location: The Town Of Sleepy Hollow