Eleanor Skelton

Poem from 2012: Love Letter

So this weekend I went to Dallas to see The Thorn again. Every year, another part of me heals as I re-process and work through childhood trauma surrounding Easter. Here’s some of my thoughts from the first time I went to the Thorn. Originally posted as a Facebook note, April 8, 2012: For those ofContinueContinue reading “Poem from 2012: Love Letter”

Poem: Interoffice Memo

Another poem from 2013. Let me never become an interoffice memoshuffled about under somebody’s grocery list,stamped “confidential,”passed back to quality controlonly to be drenched with coffee on the manager’s desk. Interoffice memosare stuffy and overconfident,assuming their technicalitiesabsorb the attention of our braincells.But really, the words flow in one ear,travel through the vestibulocochlear nerveinto our mindsContinueContinue reading “Poem: Interoffice Memo”

Narnia is evil. Because scripture. | What one Christian fundamentalist preacher said about C.S. Lewis

So last summer, I read this book that one of my friends let me borrow called Cameras in Narnia: How the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Came to Life. The author gives an inside perspective since he was on set for almost the entire filming process, and I enjoy reading about how movies areContinueContinue reading “Narnia is evil. Because scripture. | What one Christian fundamentalist preacher said about C.S. Lewis”

Poem: Prayer

I wrote my first poem when I was 15 years old. I’d always wanted to write poetry. I feel things very deeply. I tried to write my first poem when I was 12, but I thought every poem had to rhyme. I was homeschooled in Christian fundamentalism, so I thought deviating from traditional poetry wasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Prayer”

New Blog Layout: 2015

Some of you probably noticed that I updated my blog layout in January. My friend Elraen had a tradition of posting screenshots of her old blog layouts as a record. She’s currently a journalist in the music industry, she majored in digital writing, and she does a lot of photo editing and graphic design work,ContinueContinue reading “New Blog Layout: 2015”