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To Have You Smile Forever

9/22/2013

To be in your favour
To be in your love
Is the place i long to be
To enter there and never leave

For in your movements
My heart comes alive
Pulse quickens
Adrift in your eyes

I long to know you
To feel your touch
In a pale autumn night's moon
Where the leaves, like confetti,
Would fall all around us
And you, wrapped in my winter coast
I would wear you everywhere

Long slender fingers
On the lapels
And the light in your eyes
I would pull you close
To defy the cold
Of a winter soon to come

You smile, the hint of your dimples warms me
If i could only make you smile
Like the smile you show me now
And have it forever
I could greet the day with a cheerful heart
Knowing I'm who i said i would be

We iron out the bumps along the road
We put to bed our fears
W wish my speech was straight like arrows
Finding their way to your soul unwavering
For i stumble over words
And fail to tell you just what i feel

When all this time I've been eager to take you
To bring you into me
To share the dreams i see on that horizon
To live the lives we were given
To hold you below the stars
To show off my baby to the Milky Way
Who in my arms would stay

James Battersby 22 Sept 2013

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A Meeting of Merry Gentlemen

9/15/2013

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Tomorrow will see us meet at Innisfree House to discuss the direction of the mini maps for the panels in Bushmills. These will include a miniature map of Portbalintrae and The Giant's Causeway and will serve as a guide for tourists. See previous entries on the progress of the panels (three panels in all) that are situated in Bushmills and the various design elements that have gone into it. In attendance will be Winston Boyce, Art Ward, Roy Bolton and possibly Jim McCauley and Samuel Thompson, and joined by writer Bob Curran. It looks set to be a meeting of merry gentlemen.

The map has been a labour of love, but it was and is, nontheless, still a labourous task. Not only have i been doing my best detailing every nook and cranny in the town of Bushmills and making the whole thing convincing yet inviting, i have been working on the heritage images which, while they are separate from the map itself, will be placed throughout it and around it's edges. Last but not least is actually piecing it all together in order than it does not overlap the existing design elements already in place. Needless to say, i have not slept much for the past month and have been burning the midnight oil, but for the love of town and country, i shant complain too much. Unfortunatly too much of that can make you a bit irritable, but thanks goes to Nescafe and my muse Christine for keeping me sane and awake. It would, of course, help if i was not my own worst critic, and indeed there have been times when elements of the map have been scrapped and redrawn, if only to make the map that much more appealing. I want to create something that i can be proud of in years to come, and this almost always includes a lot of hard work and discipline.

I really enjoy meeting up with the group over a coffee and a chat and i couldn't ask for a nicer group of guys to work with. I feel very blessed to be a part of the team, and with everyone bringing their own ideas to the table, it gives us a lot more to work with week by week. While my artwork is out there in the wider world and enjoyed in different countries, the work for the Brighter Bushmills Project which i am doing for the Bushmills Trust is not only different, but of equal value to me. Bushmills is a town where many thousands of tourists pass through every year and it is a great honour to know my work will be seen by visitors to the town.

Thanks for reading
James

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