Versace for H&M

After hearing reports of the collection selling out within thirty minutes in many cities around the world, I was sure that I would be too late to snap up my favourite pieces.  I thought that the only way to secure some Donatella designs would be to plot my attack on an eBay auction, little did I know that the Metropolis branch in Voykovskaya would have brimming racks of couture ready for the taking.  I instantly called my sister in Qatar and asked if she wanted any items as the collection had instantly sold out in Doha.  I always enjoy a trip to H&M but my latest encounter has been particularly special.  Previous collections from Karl Largerfeld, Jimmy Choo and Lanvin have had me dizzy with anticipation but normally my experience has been limited to perusing enviously as shoppers frantically fight it out.  This time around I was able to treat myself to a snippet of in Vogue moda  :)

Oriental Print leggings and dress



My absolute fave... had designs on this for a while :)

Cathedral of Assumption

Tourist

Intangible

Staggered shadows slip away

into clouds so deep that fail to stay

Clutch to nothing but empty air,

which was supposed to lead and take me there.

Frozen

The first snow fell and then another.  Thwarting life, covering tarnished ground.  Purified.  The snow begins to slush and seep, the beauty stripped away. 

There lies a body, cold and unrevived by the daylights beams.  Frozen still, eyes wide shut.  Peace brushes past her skin, cold settling the unwarmed blood.

People stand and stare, silence consumes the void.  An open casket laid bare, to pay tribute to first snow and last breath. 

First Snow

  

Couplet

Paired steps

two by two

Each consumed

by their own logic

Parallel universes

of comprehension

As if there is a glass wall

between them

But the same string

to move their feet

They don't talk

or even try.

Instead they look deep into one anothers eyes and guess the answers to their unspoken thoughts.