Melissa

Under the ground

2009-11-09T13:24:00.002+01:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Rome, Italy

With his deck of cards

2009-09-22T18:54:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Tyrifjord, Norway

Young and wreckless

2009-08-23T13:15:00.005+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Denmark

Mature and ripe

2009-07-27T00:36:00.004+02:00

I don't know who you are,
I'm already inside your head.
I don't know if you're near or far,
But I heard every word you said.
♠
The words you've written,
The thoughts you've thought.
Gave me the urge to go to Britain,
And believe in the wars I've fought.
♠
You want to be seen,
You want to be heard.
But not by a girl who's eighteen,
and not yet separated from the herd.
♠

-MeMe

Sweet and sour

2009-07-26T21:27:00.003+02:00

My dear sister Madeleine at the marked in France, shopping for lemons.

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Nice, France

World at your feet

2009-07-16T20:45:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Lumsås, Denmark

Morning has broken

2009-07-05T22:06:00.001+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Lumsås, Denmark

Windows

2009-06-23T00:22:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Barjols, France

Porsche

2009-06-21T18:02:00.003+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Barjols, France

In the sun

2009-06-20T17:24:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Barjols, France

The other side

2009-05-07T10:24:00.001+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Auschwitz, Poland

Into the blue

2009-05-06T06:10:00.003+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Ålsgårde, Denmark

Bridge over troubled water

2009-05-05T19:27:00.003+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Ålsgårde, Denmark

Fields of gold

2009-05-04T10:09:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Rygge, Norway

Moonshadow

2009-05-03T15:53:00.002+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Freedom?

2009-05-01T12:36:00.005+02:00

A couple of years ago, one of my younger friends died.

He was only 12 years old.

The last words he wrote in his notebook were:
“What is freedom?”

Photograph: Melissa Meiner

Editor: Melissa Meiner

Location: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland

Sunset

2009-04-30T14:38:00.003+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark

Tin

2009-04-24T14:02:00.003+02:00

I'm not a tin, so please don't put me in the bin.

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Stein Halvorsen
Location: Denmark

The game

2009-04-24T12:50:00.003+02:00

Boy if you ever will come down,

Are you sure I’m still gonna be around?

The apples have fallen to the ground,
Another tree I have found.

♠

This time I’m not under it, looking up
Now I’m sitting in that high tree top
My tree is much higher, you see
So this time, you’re looking up to me
♠

Summer, winter, autumn, spring
It doesn’t really change a thing
I’m just sitting here eating an apple
I guess you’ll have to get your grapple

♠
The day turns to night and the night into day,
Are you sure you aren’t too tired to play?
Get your butt moving and work out a plan,
And try to catch me.
If you can.

♠

-MeMe

9 Million bicycles

2009-04-23T09:20:00.004+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark

Black and white shoes

2009-04-16T08:52:00.004+02:00

♥
How I treasure the naivety of my earlier days,

Sometimes I just wish it was a constant phase.

When I see those little black and white shoes,

I forget the fighting, the anger and the abuse.

♥

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark

I DONT WANT TO!

2009-04-15T20:51:00.002+02:00

Don’t wanna do the things you tell me to,
I wanna do the things all the other kids do.
I wanna be free with no strings attached,
I wanna be packet up and dispatched.
♥
Put a stamp on my forhead and send me away,
But do hurry, I want it to happen today.
I’ve already found a destination,
I can hear the trains wuuu iii at the station.
♥
I’m in a hurry,
But you don’t need to worry.
It’s what they always say:
She’ll be O.K.

♥

-MeMe

By the seaside

2009-04-14T19:15:00.005+02:00

Photograph: Birgitte Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark

All and nothing

2009-04-14T01:12:00.007+02:00

Although it's late at night,
And I should be sleeping tight,
I'm writing this poem
The words floating like wine from a jeroboam
♥
The night is slowly closing in,
They say it's just what it says on the tin.
I usually like to know what I get,
But surely I won't be upset.
♥
I hope you'll have an awesome holiday as well,
Maybe we're somewhere in the same hotel?
Remember that when it hurts, it's only pain,
The body, mind and brain still remains the same.
♥
My words don't really fit together at all,
It's like a chaotic shopping mall.
People running from side to side,
Not knowing which horse to ride.
♥
Surely this poem must come to an end,
There's no need to pretend.
It's just really hard to define,
When everything is so amazingly divine.

- MeMe

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark

The boy in the tree poem

2009-04-13T14:23:00.006+02:00

If you look closely, I’m sure you will see,

There’s a boy sitting high up in that tree.

He’s more than any man can be,

And I’m hoping that one day he’ll come down to me.

♥

As the leaves spring out and fade away,

The day turns to night and the night into day.

I’m under the tree with my face looking up,

He’s still sitting there, in that high tree top.

♥

The sun rise and the sun set,

There’s no sign of my boy coming down just yet.

Maybe I’ll just have to wait a while longer,

What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.

♥

-MeMe

The boy in the tree

2009-04-12T22:49:00.001+02:00

Photograph: Melissa Meiner
Editor: Melissa Meiner
Location: Denmark