Ocean Loving Bookworm...

Did you know that "bookworm" in Finnish is "kirjatoukka"? or that in French it is "rat de biblioteque" ie library rat? Well now you do... It's written here on an old dictionary page that includes the  french/english translation

And did you know "merisielu" in Finnish translates as "ocean soul"... someone who has a deep affinity for the sea & is at home there. The french/english translation for 'ocean' is on this page. I like the idea of there being a word on the printed page that relates to what I may write.

I get led on some fascinating journeys of discovery as I follow clues in the requests I get. As I double checked the definitions I'd been given I found these lyrics... 

Merisielu

Yksi yö lisää

Sietää tämä painajainen

Mitä muuta minun täytyy sanoa

Itku vuokseni ei koskaan ollu kyyneleen arvoinen

Yksinäinen sieluni on ainoastaa pelolla täytetty

Pitkät tunnit yksinäisyyden

Välissä minun ja meren

Tunteen kadotus

Antaumuksen löytäminen

Tulisiko minun puketua valkoiseen ja etsiä merta

Kuten olen aina toivonut - Yhtä aaltojen kanssa

Merisielu

Kulkien vuorovesilinjaa

Kuulen nimesi

Enkelitkö kuiskailevat

Jotain niin kaunista joka satuttaa

Toivoin ainoastaan tulevani joksikin kauniiksi

Lävitse musiikkini, lävitse hiljaisen antaumukseni.

Ocean Soul

One more night

To bear this nightmare

What more do I have to say

Crying for me was never worth a tear

My lonely soul is only filled with fear

Long hours of loneliness

Between me and the sea

Losing emotion

Finding devotion

Should I dress in white and search the sea

As I always wished to be - one with the waves

Ocean Soul

Walking the tideline

I hear your name

Is angels wispering

Something so beautiful it hurts

I only wished to become something beautiful

Through my music, through my silent devotion

One day I will just have to do a full piece with these.... especially after reading more about Tuomas Holopainen who wrote them...

~ tuomas holopainen ~ 

sorry for that little distraction *sigh*

back to book pages...

The first drafts were with watercolour: I like the muted tones with my photograph of old book spines... I think it conjures up the image of an old library or study, walls lined with bookshelves...& the unique scent as you turn ancient pages...

I was just looking back at the title & thought..

 Ocean loving bookworm, gsoh, wltm... 

there's my lonely hearts ad started if I ever need one!

How would your ad go?