The Writer's Feathers

© Sybille Sterk

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Writer's needs special feathers, also called quills. Sometimes it may appear as if the ink they use is in fact heart blood.

 This is a combo of lots of textures and vintage public domain images plus my own photograph, edited and mixed up in Photoshop.

There are two more to come in the next few days. In the meanwhile this one is available as prints and other merchandise in the usual outlets. :D

rainbow inside

© Sybille Sterk

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Words from my poem of the same name:

I shed this skin
and what is left will be the rainbow
that escaped me for so long
and I will hug myself
and hold it tight
and I will never let it go

Image of the Cambridgeshire countryside taken by me a while back.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Available on Society6

my stupid heart

© Sybille Sterk

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Image to illustrate my poem of the same name. The poem can be read here. This is a photograph of crow's and duck feathers arranged in the shame of a wing. I edited the image with textures and colour adjustments to get this 'vintage' effect.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

a song in the dark

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph I took a couple of weekends ago. I love the autumn colours and the last of the fruit of the season. There's something so precious about this and it gives hope for another spring.

The words of the poem are mine:

the pyramids still stand
so why shouldn't I walk away
with a smile in my future and
a seed of hope
like a spark in the night
why shouldn't there be
a crown somewhere ahead or
at the very least
a rosebush
thorns and all

The whole poem can be read here

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

bitter taste

© Sybille Sterk

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only a hint of flowers remains
like a dream and a kiss
a tiny little speck of hope
a seed for a future far away

Words and photographs my own, textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

The complete poem can be read here.

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mysteries uncovered

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken at the park.

Words my own, you can read the whole poem here:

the heart  

sometimes recovers

in the glow of  

new love and

the warmth of  

a gaze that looks

at it with

an open mind and  

adoration

and takes it  

and all the baggage  

by the hand  

back into the light  

and  

into a new spring

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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Pearls of Wisdom

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph through the window by my computer. It's been raining and foggy or both for over a week now, with brief periods of sunshine.

The poem is my own and can be read here

another moment of 

stillness

that holds us
above the abyss

safe
for just this instant

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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Pierced

© Sybille Sterk

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images use this code: SYST-00300

Image I took recently in the woods around Cambridge (near Byron's Pool, Grantchester). I stuck two feathers into the bark of an old oak. The feathers had been lying at the bottom of the tree trunk.

The words are from my poem truths to be found in the rain

rain drops tattooed the window pane
when I knew
the only truth to be found in this life
is the one carved out from your own skin

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

the long road home

© Sybille Sterk

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Home is a strange thing. It's made up of lots of little things and we never know what they are until we lose them and have to find them anew.

You can read the poem quoted in the image here

I lost my way

amongst the stars

infatuated by a

gleaming blue light

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00288

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

in dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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Image taken last weekend in Orford. Word are from my recent poem of the same name, you can read the full poem here.

the girl

who

woke with a vision

of a sky blue with clouds

that went on forever

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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The Sky Above

The Sky Above

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00280

The image was taken at Holme Beach in Norfolk, England. Poem to go with the image is here

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Love Lost and Gone

© Sybille Sterk
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Photo taken recently in the Norfolk countryside near Langham. The words are from my poem of the same name, you can read the whole poem here.

"Forgotten the scent of roses
Lost the warmth of the sun
Cursed the moment it began
Such is the tale of love lost and gone."

Photograph edited in Photoshop.

the things I allow myself to think

 

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00161

The image has been edited slightly from the original and my words from the poem the things I allow myself to think have been added:

the things I allow myself to think
are few and far between
like a necklace of islands in the ocean
never precise and harsh
like the cries of seagulls by the beach

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

 
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Unfinished Story

© Sybille Sterk
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Now and again the story of my first love comes up again in a dream. It's, oh so many years ago, but still sometimes I remember it. Do you have a love like that?

This is the illustration to my poem of the same name which you can read here:

All my own images and words. Edited in Photoshop.

 
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Always

© Sybille Sterk
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The image without the poetry is part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images – use this code: SYST-00254

My own image and my own words:
always struggling against the odds
belief and hope our only armour
how else would we fight for Dulcinea
and hope to win a heart at the end?

See the rest of the poem Always

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

this sinking feeling

 

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Words from my poem this sinking feeling and a photograph I took of an aquilegia.

All other images/textures/brushes my own. Created with Photoshop.

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Waiting in the Shadows

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My image and words from my poem Sadness

The taste of absinthe on my tongue
The sound of raindrops on the window pane
The scent of burnt leaves in Autumn
The feel of a cold draught on my skin

Darkness
Descends
Quietly

 
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The End

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This is an image originally created for my licensing portfolio. I mixed it up a bit and added a snippet from one of my poems to create this. Here's the poem no happy endings.

See the licensing image on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0211

Created with my own photographs and my own words in Photoshop, no stock used.

  All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

that room in my head

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Illustration for my poem of the same name. Read it here

Credits

• Ash38 by faestock
• Fave Texture Set 4 (Optional) by Shadowhouse

All other images, textures, brushes etc. my own. Created with Photoshop (and lots of time).

Now for something spooky and a new story

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I wanted to have a play with a hand coming out of the ground. The hand is my own. :-) Maybe this means I am going to come back and haunt you all. LOL

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0071  

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.


You can see the whole collection of images I have on Arcangel-Images.com here on my Facebook page.

 All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Here's a new story called The Heart of Wood for everyone who liked the Secret Keeper series. It's related to the Secret Keeper Universe. :-)