The blurred line...

Love, poems lie curled up

Within my heart, reluctant

They don’t claw to come out

And, the words breathe curses

Before fading away as echoes

Coming from a far away past

That lies on the other side of

The blurred line that splits

 Dreams and reality...

Shadows...

What are these shadows,

That as if, burn me with

Gazes as cold and grey

As graveyards at midnight

That, in all their eerie quiet

Accuse me with chapped lips

And make the time stare

As an indifferent passerby

While I try to slay demons

I once left long ago behind

What are these shadows that pass me by,

Every time I close my eyes...

Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene

Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ is one of my favorite fiction works. The protagonist, Miss Bathsheba Everdene is a proud and independent woman who comes across as inspiring as well. This is also an important feminist character in English literature. 

This portrait is of British actress Carey Mulligan who played Bathsheba’s character in the movie based on this novel (by the same name). 

Medium- Color Pencil