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Confessions of a Golden Calf

2005-07-15T06:41:46-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 12 Updated: 7-15-05, Published: 7-15-05
Status: Complete

you ought to know your idols.

NonEuclidean Geometry

2005-04-06T22:31:03-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 32 Updated: 4-6-05, Published: 4-6-05
Status: Complete

We are but so many sets of angular coordinates.

crash

2005-01-03T21:24:03-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 38, Reviews: 31 Updated: 1-3-05, Published: 1-3-05
Status: Complete

oh didn't you know, child? it all falls apart in the end.

whales

2004-11-07T19:50:03-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 29 Updated: 11-7-04, Published: 11-7-04
Status: Complete

you won't know what I mean, but I don't care.

ghosts

2004-07-09T13:30:05-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 27 Updated: 7-9-04, Published: 7-9-04
Status: Complete

empty promises, empty arms-the ghost of you everywhere but just beyond my grasp. Cut haiku...or rather, chopped, since I cut up the cut form. Deal with it.

no ever after

2004-07-06T22:57:00-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 29 Updated: 7-6-04, Published: 7-6-04
Status: Complete

don't kid yourself.

From the Inside Out

2004-05-18T21:49:43-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 18 Updated: 5-18-04, Published: 5-18-04
Status: Complete

Utilizes 3-5-3 haiku, although they've been transformed into tankas. And used to sandwich free-verse...but this board would be so boring (pun non-intended) without variety, no?

hell week is over

2004-05-09T21:29:43-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: School
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 207, Reviews: 15 Updated: 5-9-04, Published: 5-9-04
Status: Complete

this isn't really poetic. but ap's are done. yes. done. throw away your princeton reviews, kids. bc calc and apus are DEAD.

Immaterial

2004-04-27T14:35:15-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 12 Updated: 4-27-04, Published: 4-27-04
Status: Complete

madness would imply anger, and i'm hardly in an aggravated/rather elevated state. and yet they still call me mad...

In Vain

2004-04-15T23:21:23-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 191, Reviews: 24 Updated: 4-15-04, Published: 12-25-03
Status: Complete

Shakespearean sonnet, for Black Rider (from xmas). I realized after posting that I had left out a stanza...so now, 4 months later, you get the final four lines. Enjoy. Original included.

Spring on Fictionpress

2004-04-11T11:11:44-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 25, Reviews: 25 Updated: 4-11-04, Published: 4-11-04
Status: Complete

Happy Easter...happy spring! tanka

lose, she whispered

2004-04-05T23:21:07-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 44, Reviews: 17 Updated: 4-5-04, Published: 4-5-04
Status: Complete

if I told the truth you would refuse to believe, and even lies you shall not fully understand.

the thin and lovely smile

2004-03-08T13:50:54-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 20 Updated: 3-8-04, Published: 3-8-04
Status: Complete

shall creep in a soft wave over fading features as the whispers of myth fly away, fly away. tanka

oh that exhilarating FEELING!

2004-02-26T20:03:47-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 13 Updated: 2-26-04, Published: 2-26-04
Status: Complete

Something less depressing to pass the bleak greys of winter. wink yes you owe me

the day they jailed the colors

2004-02-26T19:56:07-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 16 Updated: 2-26-04, Published: 2-26-04
Status: Complete

concept poem. took me forever to edit and is probably still not the way i want it. inspired partly by don mc-clean and partly by ivan denisovich. ah, communism.

cicadas

2004-02-04T20:38:51-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 22 Updated: 2-4-04, Published: 2-4-04
Status: Complete

I suppose once in a while we all yearn for what we know we've lost, somehow, somewhere along the way. tanka

Riddle Me This

2004-01-28T16:45:38-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 3, Words: 225, Reviews: 27 Updated: 1-28-04, Published: 1-8-04
Status: Complete

edit: the second riddle (third chapter) has been fixed. These riddles are tricky and not for the faint of-er-brain. Enjoy!

You are the Salt

2004-01-26T18:48:09-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 290, Reviews: 10 Updated: 1-26-04, Published: 1-26-04
Status: Complete

that is thrown on my open wounds that you made, and meanwhile I shall be the knife that cleaves your breast at your own hand, and together to hell we shall united be torn apart. (this is r for a reason. If you normally like my "pretty" stuff, you pr

clarity

2004-01-20T19:04:02-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 13, Reviews: 17 Updated: 1-20-04, Published: 1-20-04
Status: Complete

think-piece, perhaps. Interpret as you will but please not stupidly. If you can't say anything intelligent don't say anything at all.

lamentish thing

2004-01-19T20:37:44-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 13 Updated: 1-19-04, Published: 1-19-04
Status: Complete

I don't know why I'm posting this. Blah. Everything is blah right now. I'm screwing myself over. Sorry.

lose youth

2003-12-31T15:30:34-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 213, Reviews: 21 Updated: 12-31-03, Published: 12-31-03
Status: Complete

"We swore once/along the side of the spray/we'd be as Pan/and never grow up/except our wish backfired..."

Emerge

2003-12-27T20:40:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 22 Updated: 12-27-03, Published: 12-27-03
Status: Complete

Follow to the river, child...

holiday spirit

2003-12-27T19:45:03-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 16, Reviews: 10 Updated: 12-27-03, Published: 12-27-03
Status: Complete

With all the over-commercialization of modern holidays, sometimes we forget the true meaning...hopefully un-cliché. For Magpie.

calm before the storm

2003-12-24T17:32:31-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 245, Reviews: 9 Updated: 12-24-03, Published: 12-24-03
Status: Complete

for Zanmath. Parallel chaos...which is odd really, because chaos and parallel don't seem to be quite compatible

fae

2003-12-22T11:22:09-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 23, Reviews: 15 Updated: 12-22-03, Published: 12-22-03
Status: Complete

spliced haiku (reg-reg) for frugale, in the style of forest walk. I think every true poet has had a fixation on fairies, at some point in their life...they are poetry embodied, spirits of varied substance dancing on logic in the forest glades...

dust

2003-12-19T15:25:50-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 27, Reviews: 7 Updated: 12-19-03, Published: 12-19-03
Status: Complete

tombs and millenia entrance me...can you find the meaning? Perhaps...

Christmas Gifts

2003-12-13T22:46:18-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 9 Updated: 12-13-03, Published: 12-13-03
Status: Complete

A pseudo-sonnet, you could say. My Christmas gift to all of you is-well, read the author's note or my profile, if it's still up there. And make requests soon, please, so I have time!

Collision Course

2003-12-13T09:03:19-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 19, Reviews: 11 Updated: 12-13-03, Published: 12-13-03
Status: Complete

Spliced haiku (a cut and regular-yeah, I like this form. The truth is coming out and the lies are pressing down...the day of judgement coming, from the god(s) and from the people...

forest walk

2003-12-10T19:31:14-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 23, Reviews: 16 Updated: 12-10-03, Published: 12-10-03
Status: Complete

formatting fun...hopefulling chilling haiku (pl.), sliced, diced, enmeshed, and generally rearranged. Inspired by fog on the walk home today. Enjoy!

Losing Grip

2003-12-09T18:13:46-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 40, Reviews: 10 Updated: 12-9-03, Published: 12-9-03
Status: Complete

Tyburn-attempted after being wowed by Children of the Root's example. A new format that I've yet to master, I'd appreciate your comments/criticism/whatever. Everything collapses, and I can't hold on...

Pulse

2003-12-03T22:06:12-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 9, Reviews: 18 Updated: 12-3-03, Published: 12-3-03
Status: Complete

Reverse haiku (7-5-7), first in a while. I kind of like this one. It's different than my usual tone, imho. if you really want to know what it's about, you'll read the poem. It's only three lines, guys.

To Friends

2003-11-30T13:02:36-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 163, Reviews: 12 Updated: 11-30-03, Published: 11-30-03
Status: Complete

My 100th post is for you-for everyone who's said a kind word, for the good ones, the close ones, the ones who cared when no one needed to, the ones who let me cry. Here's to you all. And many of you know who you are.

Fall like Dolls

2003-11-23T20:13:28-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 332, Reviews: 18 Updated: 11-23-03, Published: 11-23-03
Status: Complete

The phoenix may fly and the angels may dive, but when the ice is slippery, it's all too easy to slide into the underworld...

Google Love Gone Bad

2003-11-23T13:45:46-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 13, Reviews: 13 Updated: 11-23-03, Published: 11-23-03
Status: Complete

is irritated eh...sort of a poetic rant on the flaws of a certain piece of software offered by what is generally my favorite search engine. God I hate pop-ups. Not intended to be pretentious, in any way.

demons

2003-11-20T18:55:07-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 293, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-20-03, Published: 11-20-03
Status: Complete

At the cusp of a worldwide war, a struggling empire desperate for a scapegoat turned to a religious minority within their own country and slaughtered them, the first real genocide, brutally murdering millions. Think you know who I'm talking about? Don't

last

2003-11-13T22:11:13-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 42, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-13-03, Published: 11-13-03
Status: Complete

3-5-3, a la Miz E. Mak. Calvary. My first shot at this, so feel free to critique.

static

2003-11-09T21:24:05-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 17 Updated: 11-9-03, Published: 11-9-03
Status: Complete

November 5, 2003-I'll never forget.

Hope

2003-11-04T17:53:59-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-4-03, Published: 11-4-03
Status: Complete

It's never too late to pick up the pieces-the stained glass of cathedrals is but broken bottles rearranged...

Si Je Pleurais

2003-10-29T18:36:59-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: French, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 31 Updated: 10-29-03, Published: 10-29-03
Status: Complete

in french, but with a translation included for those who don't speak it. I just love the way the words sound in this language...

Lost Chance

2003-10-26T19:14:40-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 10 Updated: 10-26-03, Published: 10-26-03
Status: Complete

we've all let a few slip away...

So Ironic

2003-10-20T15:18:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 11, Reviews: 15 Updated: 10-20-03, Published: 10-20-03
Status: Complete

Chameleon

2003-10-20T00:35:13-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 10, Reviews: 17 Updated: 10-20-03, Published: 10-20-03
Status: Complete

But didn't you know? You're not the only one who feels as you do; the ordinary people you imagine are no better than yourself. Why steal a soul when yours is hardly lacking? Alas you fail to see and try to blend in with the crowd, quilt yourself a new

Sanctuary

2003-10-19T18:48:11-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 14, Reviews: 15 Updated: 10-19-03, Published: 10-19-03
Status: Complete

Sometimes you just need something to hold on to.

Can't Set Me Free

2003-10-19T18:41:00-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 54, Reviews: 6 Updated: 10-19-03, Published: 10-19-03
Status: Complete

Cut, cut, tanka, cut, stanza cut...what can I say, I love mixing and matching. Political: envision a future where we're afraid to think freely, else chaos should erupt from our minds and mouths...

Sky Castles

2003-10-16T19:26:55-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 211, Reviews: 13 Updated: 10-16-03, Published: 10-16-03
Status: Complete

Reality is imaginary, imagination real; escape with me from those silly laws of physics, toss your textbooks in the trash and fly away to Jupiter's moon...

Plea to the Princess

2003-10-14T19:36:22-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 231, Reviews: 9 Updated: 10-14-03, Published: 10-14-03
Status: Complete

This isn't a haiku in any shape or form, but this is Princess Mulan's domain, and so it's fitting for this to be here rather than anywhere else. Please come back...

falling

2003-10-13T18:11:08-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 11, Reviews: 11 Updated: 10-13-03, Published: 10-13-03
Status: Complete

*sigh* I hate to write generic angst...right now everything sucks so badly I can't even think of words that make it make sense. Maybe later when I'm not feeling so crappy I'll revise this.

sunrise

2003-10-13T15:56:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 6 Updated: 10-13-03, Published: 10-13-03
Status: Complete

Good mother earth once again gives birth to the downy chick sun sweet rising...

On Being Confirmed

2003-10-12T21:56:45-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 242, Reviews: 6 Updated: 10-12-03, Published: 10-12-03
Status: Complete

...or being in the process of, rather. This all just seems so fake to me, but then again, isn't that what it is for me to go and confirm my belief in something in which my beliefs are all but firm? Fake?

Apocalypse

2003-10-07T17:34:38-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 138, Reviews: 12 Updated: 10-7-03, Published: 10-7-03
Status: Complete

ring around the rosie...

odyssey

2003-10-04T15:47:52-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 11 Updated: 10-4-03, Published: 10-4-03
Status: Complete

we'll tell only the stars our secret...

legacy

2003-10-02T18:35:20-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 8 Updated: 10-2-03, Published: 10-2-03
Status: Complete

It took just one...one man with his one god to change the course of history forever. May not be what you're expecting...

all that you love will be carried away

2003-09-27T13:52:55-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 29, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-27-03, Published: 9-27-03
Status: Complete

My thanks to Stephen King, muse on this choka...reminisce on the ghosts of past lives as they whisper you secrets in raspy long-gone voices...

Comments

2003-09-25T12:45:28-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 6, Words: 236, Reviews: 33 Updated: 9-25-03, Published: 5-12-03
Status: Complete

*collective gasp* yes, it's true-I've actually updated! Comment no. 6 is another reverse haiku (7-5-7).

Purge

2003-09-23T21:03:26-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 10 Updated: 9-23-03, Published: 9-23-03
Status: Complete

My first reverse haiku (7-5-7). Can fire make me clean...?

Covenant

2003-09-16T14:45:15-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 167, Reviews: 10 Updated: 9-16-03, Published: 9-16-03
Status: Complete

It was made for a reason...

Watch the Bird

2003-09-14T22:22:31-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-14-03, Published: 9-14-03
Status: Complete

An odd poem in a format I've never tried before...religious, social commentary if you look for it.

wingless

2003-09-11T20:01:51-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-11-03, Published: 9-11-03
Status: Complete

I'm just a fallen angel/trying to flap useless stumps...

Saved

2003-09-07T19:30:00-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 11 Updated: 9-7-03, Published: 9-7-03
Status: Complete

Ah, the sweet smell of salvation. Cut haiku.

Such Promises

2003-09-06T12:29:37-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-6-03, Published: 9-6-03
Status: Complete

contrast poem-how is it to fly? how is it to fall?

Welcome to my Mind

2003-08-25T20:44:28-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-25-03, Published: 8-25-03
Status: Complete

More wordplay, except this time it actually has a point. "I wish to be lyrically complex..."

example

2003-08-18T21:49:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 18, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-18-03, Published: 8-18-03
Status: Complete

another tanka, woo! They're always watching her, try as she may to forget...wish as she might that she didn't have to...

jealousy

2003-08-17T16:40:39-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 10 Updated: 8-17-03, Published: 8-17-03
Status: Complete

just a drop can destroy a lifelong friendship...a tanka

Empty

2003-08-14T21:08:22-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-14-03, Published: 8-14-03
Status: Complete

This is a bit hard to post...mainly because it's so true. And the fact that it's true makes it almost embarrassing, because it's things I don't want to admit...I'm losing my life...slowly...voluntarily, although I occasionally try to save it

Color me Clear

2003-08-12T21:31:17-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 18, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-12-03, Published: 8-12-03
Status: Complete

And I'm (finally) back with a non-angsty poem that I actually like."Color me clear/translucent transparency..." Includes reference to the Muppets.

The Dangers of RoseColored Glasses

2003-08-12T20:56:06-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-12-03, Published: 8-12-03
Status: Complete

Toss them in the trash and rejoice in variety.

Better to Fall

2003-08-11T16:17:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-11-03, Published: 8-11-03
Status: Complete

than to be dropped.

Life's a Bitch

2003-08-11T16:14:08-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 29, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-11-03, Published: 8-11-03
Status: Complete

...and then you die

Lace

2003-07-24T17:04:59-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 67, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-24-03, Published: 7-24-03
Status: Complete

Another darker poem from me...battered, bruised, with porcelain scars, she still remembers days when she wore lace...

Balloon

2003-07-21T11:36:14-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 40, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-21-03, Published: 7-21-03
Status: Complete

Er...pretty dark stuff, which I usually don't write...involves a balloon and a tragedy. That's all I'll say. Leave a review.

suffixalliteration

2003-07-18T20:38:40-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 21, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-18-03, Published: 7-18-03
Status: Complete

Wordplay-doesn't really mean anything, but it sounds cool if you read it out loud.

Chocolát

2003-07-15T19:22:54-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 23, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-15-03, Published: 7-15-03
Status: Complete

Hardly what you'd expect on the subject...

Innocence

2003-07-07T17:44:08-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 7, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-7-03, Published: 7-7-03
Status: Complete

My first actual haiku in a long time...I actually like this one. Thanks to Heart of the Sword for the formatting tips!

Lies

2003-07-06T11:48:59-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 27, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-6-03, Published: 7-6-03
Status: Complete

Ever notice the striking similarity between a spider and a liar?

Rubber Ducky

2003-07-05T17:22:12-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 19, Reviews: 10 Updated: 7-5-03, Published: 7-5-03
Status: Complete

Cut haiku for the bathtub. "For love of rubber duckies..."

Holograph

2003-07-05T09:57:41-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-5-03, Published: 7-5-03
Status: Complete

Reality, schmeality.

Peach

2003-07-03T21:04:55-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 7 Updated: 7-3-03, Published: 7-3-03
Status: Complete

can a peach bleed?

swell

2003-06-27T20:01:44-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 23, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-27-03, Published: 6-27-03
Status: Complete

you can look at it in one of two ways: either it's complete randomness, or it has a deeper, hidden meaning. I'm not goin to say that either conclusion would be completely correct or incorrect.

Gone With the Wind

2003-06-27T20:00:16-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-27-03, Published: 6-27-03
Status: Complete

kudos to Margaret [insert last name here], to whom I owe the title. It's so true, though...so many things you take for granted can disappear in just a moment, just the time it takes to blink. Gone...gone with the wind...please kill me now before i choke

daybreak

2003-06-27T19:57:54-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-27-03, Published: 6-27-03
Status: Complete

A modified tanka-see ch 5 of comments or the a/n for explanation-involves flowers, dye, tears, and mascara. And, of course, daybreak-hence the title...yes, I'm quite aware of my condition...

What a pity

2003-06-26T19:54:38-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 14, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-26-03, Published: 6-26-03
Status: Complete

Cut haiku-I was a caterpillar...

Summer

2003-06-25T18:13:43-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 19, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-25-03, Published: 6-25-03
Status: Complete

ok, so maybe i have a twisted imagination...here you go, folks. Summer. (don't fret, it's only about a cricket, for heavens sake.)

On the Power of Love

2003-06-22T22:11:04-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-22-03, Published: 6-22-03
Status: Complete

The idealistic young man preached the power of love. The battered old woman knew better.

child soldier

2003-06-15T21:09:57-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 8 Updated: 6-15-03, Published: 6-15-03
Status: Complete

In hundreds of countries, armies are taking children to serve on the front lines. Why? Because they are "dispensable." If a child dies, they can always take another. These children don't volunteer. They are stolen from their homes. Read and forward

Ode to Sugar

2003-06-11T20:23:43-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 183, Reviews: 8 Updated: 6-11-03, Published: 6-11-03
Status: Complete

Taken from my latin america test, decided to post it here b/c I like it A 30 line or so thing in the style of Neruda: magical realism, all that good stuff. enjoy!

A Mother's Epitaph

2003-06-11T20:21:41-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 21, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-11-03, Published: 6-11-03
Status: Complete

title self-explanatory; self-sacrifice, etc. 5 lines

Sweatshop Capitalism

2003-06-04T14:43:57-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 8 Updated: 6-4-03, Published: 6-4-03
Status: Complete

cut haiku sequence-you could say it mourns for the child victims of capitalism.

Stone Lover

2003-06-03T08:58:58-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-3-03, Published: 6-3-03
Status: Complete

first attempt at a sonnet. Criticism appreciated, flames used to toast marshmallows. "My dear, in your perfection I would keep you/still and perfect, Grecian bust, forevermore..."

doubtchaossuicidal

2003-06-02T19:17:05-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-2-03, Published: 6-2-03
Status: Complete

*exhales* read if you wish...sneak a glimpse of my mind as I torture myself with doubts, with beliefs, with questions...

Slipping

2003-06-02T19:08:19-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 12, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-2-03, Published: 6-2-03
Status: Complete

*sigh* this faith a snake from fingers falls...

Freshmanitis

2003-05-29T19:19:55-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-29-03, Published: 5-29-03
Status: Complete

A new form-presenting-the tanku! Oh! Who's brilliant! (er...or too lazy to reformat the poem into either a tanka or a haiku...but oh well. R&R)

sweet poison

2003-05-26T13:22:52-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 25, Reviews: 7 Updated: 5-26-03, Published: 5-26-03
Status: Complete

let's call it human nature, shall we? Basically I can't decide where this ought to go. Leave a review telling me to take it down if you really care that much.

Regaining my Faith

2003-05-26T13:19:03-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 9, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-26-03, Published: 5-26-03
Status: Complete

slowly but surely...

Smithereens

2003-05-20T14:22:06-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 7 Updated: 5-20-03, Published: 5-20-03
Status: Complete

you smashed me like a china doll...

avocado

2003-05-18T21:55:26-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-18-03, Published: 5-18-03
Status: Complete

A choka. If you want to look at it deeply (word), then it means something. If not-well, it's a poem about an avocado.

Doubts

2003-05-18T17:09:25-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 676, Reviews: 7 Updated: 5-18-03, Published: 5-18-03
Status: Complete

My first piece of fiction, rather than poetry-please don't flame this. It's completely true. Lately, I've been having doubts...

I am, and I am not

2003-05-12T21:12:36-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-12-03, Published: 5-12-03
Status: Complete

I am that silly little girl...I am not that lowly snake...see how many hearts will break

Thief

2003-05-12T16:43:35-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 14, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-12-03, Published: 5-12-03
Status: Complete

If I stole away your soul, still I'd not be as guilty...

Superficial

2003-05-12T15:06:43-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 18, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-12-03, Published: 5-12-03
Status: Complete

why, I *wonder* what this could be about....

cry

2003-05-11T11:05:25-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-11-03, Published: 5-11-03
Status: Complete

ok--I admit, it's not really a haiku...or even a cut haiku. But the syllabic meter (?) at least starts out 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1, or something like that....anyways. I just thought it would fit better here. Read and leave me a review!

bliss

2003-05-08T16:55:06-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 18, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-8-03, Published: 5-8-03
Status: Complete

now that i think of it, it's a bit sad that "bliss" should be a fantasy....

For once, why don't you?

2003-05-07T21:17:54-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-7-03, Published: 5-7-03
Status: Complete

Why am *I* always the one who does these things? Why not *you* for a change?

Hold my hand

2003-05-06T20:42:32-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 11, Reviews: 10 Updated: 5-6-03, Published: 5-6-03
Status: Complete

not ready to let go....a short, rather pointless haiku, but I actually like it. A real haiku this time, not cut or a tanka or a sandwich.....

Jump

2003-05-06T15:44:53-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-6-03, Published: 5-6-03
Status: Complete

Quod me nutruit, me destruit....

if

2003-05-03T12:46:21-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 7 Updated: 5-3-03, Published: 5-3-03
Status: Complete

if for one second you could just forget...if i could peel away all those layers and layers...

angel

2003-05-01T18:25:12-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 9 Updated: 5-1-03, Published: 5-1-03
Status: Complete

my angel couldn't save me....

feathergirl

2003-04-30T21:56:40-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 33, Reviews: 8 Updated: 4-30-03, Published: 4-30-03
Status: Complete

a cut haiku sandwich....thanks again to Princess Mulan for introducing me to the form! ::see those feathers drifting...?::

Song of the Nymph

2003-04-29T20:20:29-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-29-03, Published: 4-29-03
Status: Complete

previously titled "the maybe-child"...you tell me which one works better. An old poem of mine that I dug up while cleaning under my be, but I actually like it.

I'll Paint You

2003-04-29T14:44:50-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-29-03, Published: 4-29-03
Status: Complete

With a palette of your dreamings, I'll paint you....

Monthly Blues

2003-04-28T14:47:30-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 9 Updated: 4-28-03, Published: 4-28-03
Status: Complete

we all get down in the dumps now and then....

Burns

2003-04-25T21:22:33-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 12 Updated: 4-25-03, Published: 4-25-03
Status: Complete

When hatred consumes you, you become living fire...but when the fire has burnt out, all that is left is ash. Odd format, cut haiku, normal haiku, and regular verse.

Blind

2003-04-25T16:04:23-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-25-03, Published: 4-25-03
Status: Complete

"You have 20/20 vision/But boy, you sure are blind."

It's my Birthday!

2003-04-22T13:42:01-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 35, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-22-03, Published: 4-22-03
Status: Complete

tanka, written while *gasp* procrastinating! Again!

late night essay

2003-04-21T22:55:28-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 8, Reviews: 12 Updated: 4-21-03, Published: 4-21-03
Status: Complete

so tired…curse…procrastination

egg hunt's end

2003-04-20T20:17:36-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 10, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-20-03, Published: 4-20-03
Status: Complete

cut haiku--Happy Easter!

maggie

2003-04-20T16:32:16-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 10, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-20-03, Published: 4-20-03
Status: Complete

i was holding my 2-year old sister when I wrote this....she's babbling about the keyboard right now ("a big one here....and a little one....)

Nineteen

2003-04-18T13:28:24-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 378, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-18-03, Published: 4-18-03
Status: Complete

I wasn't fair to the soldiers in my previous poem, so hopefully this will make up for it. War from the viewpoint of a young American soldier.

Civilian Hero

2003-04-13T22:57:26-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-13-03, Published: 4-13-03
Status: Complete

a tribute in cut haiku

She Wore White

2003-04-13T12:10:00-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 13 Updated: 4-13-03, Published: 4-13-03
Status: Complete

For the victims of war; a plea for peace.

If I Can't

2003-04-12T16:51:38-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 14, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-12-03, Published: 4-12-03
Status: Complete

If I can't have you....

Alzheimers

2003-04-10T15:46:27-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 7, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-10-03, Published: 4-10-03
Status: Complete

my interpretation....a real haiku instead of a tanka, for a change!

Cut me Down

2003-04-10T14:56:10-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 8, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-10-03, Published: 4-10-03
Status: Complete

Not sure if this is good yet, do tell--just a couple of lines that came to me today.

First

2003-04-09T14:39:21-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-9-03, Published: 4-9-03
Status: Complete

First what? I'm sure you can guess....another tanka

glass

2003-04-08T20:19:49-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 10 Updated: 4-8-03, Published: 4-8-03
Status: Complete

Like most of my poems, the meaning *is* the poem, so a summary would rather ruin it, don't you think? How much can a person resemble glass?

the blind man

2003-04-08T18:47:55-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 8 Updated: 4-8-03, Published: 4-8-03
Status: Complete

Imagine a life without sight....what would you see?

abortion

2003-04-08T16:38:34-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 10, Reviews: 16 Updated: 4-8-03, Published: 4-8-03
Status: Complete

Basically, the title tells it all....a quick analogy, I guess. I'd like to hear your views on the subject, so tell me what you think in a review after reading!

It's Over

2003-04-07T20:06:29-08:00

Author: godawful teen-angst poetry
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 39, Reviews: 12 Updated: 4-7-03, Published: 4-7-03
Status: Complete

Ever been in one of those relationships where you can't stand to be around the person but can't see yourself without them?