About Phoenix

                   
Ok, so you all know I like to write...but did you know:

I am 23 years old, living in Australia?

Hmmmm...you could have gotten that information from anywhere if you looked hard enough...let's see...did you know:

I am a lesbian (duh! scratch that let's move on to something else)

Oh I give up I guess I'll just have to tell you stuff about me and you can decide for yourself what you do/don't want to know.

So here we go...Yes, I am a 23 year old Australian lesbian, not quite out of the closet yet but getting there at my own pace. I discovered that I had a talent for writing about 10 years ago when I started giving into the burst of inspiration and writing poetry. Some of this I shared with my teachers at school (mostly because I'd get caught writing in class!!) but most of what I wrote I guarded with my life. The reason behind this was that I was using poetry as a means to discover myself and I was scared to death that someone (members of my family) would read it and take it too literally. A lot of my early poetry was full of the usual teenage angst. To deal with the changing hormones and the insecurities of who I was, I wrote mostly in the third person in an attempt to

      this is me in a recent pic
psychoanalyse myself. Needless to say it didn't quite work and I only got more confused and angry, and so did my poetry. You won't see any of my earlier work posted on Dyke Write as I destroyed it when Phoenix was truly born (kind of a catharsis I guess you could say). However, the mothballed writing contains poetry dealing with similar themes to my earliest work.

I have not been writing so much during the years since I left high school, but lately I have felt the need to once again pick up my pen in an attempt to help me deal with 'coming out' and a host of other things going on in my life right now. I feel that for me the 'pen truly is mightier
than the sword' (corny, I know, but true) and the fact that I have channeled my emotions into my writing has saved me to some extent from a total emotional melt-down.

I hope that through Dyke Write, Scarlet and I can encourage others to not give up hope, to keep dreaming, to keep writing, and most of all keep embracing life and loving it.

Happy journies,

Phoenix xxx

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