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the little sylvan house

2008-11-13T18:06:32-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 130, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-13-08, Published: 11-13-08
Status: Complete

I miss the house, the little cozy house / Its downy bed was big enough for two / Its sturdy walls could never quite hold love / And somehow it was bigger than the world

I lost the string that held the dulcet world

2008-11-01T16:10:30-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-1-08, Published: 11-1-08
Status: Complete

a sonnet.

confession

2008-08-04T23:55:38-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 27, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-4-08, Published: 8-4-08
Status: Complete

I write poetry about people whom I have never met.

the day is dying

2008-03-28T23:16:13-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 115, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-28-08, Published: 3-28-08
Status: Complete

now here, within the faded loss of day, / the night is calmer, softer, gentler, true. / to banish wanderlust’s cruel naïveté, / the moon lies overturned in velvet blue.

slipping by

2008-01-21T23:38:22-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-21-08, Published: 1-21-08
Status: Complete

even the clearest of moments is obscured by time's gauzy curtains and intricate lace.

the organ grinder

2008-01-03T22:20:56-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-3-08, Published: 1-3-08
Status: Complete

a love poem: if, my darling, you awake to a world gone madly awry ...

nearly cerulean

2007-12-04T19:57:44-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-4-07, Published: 12-4-07
Status: Complete

a love poem: an endless cacophony of color waits for you there, in the slippery promise of release and liberation.

touch

2007-11-11T23:16:30-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-11-07, Published: 11-11-07
Status: Complete

when you kiss me underneath a sky strewn with sparkles, I cannot help but feel that your kiss is everything I hold dear.

a splash of light

2007-10-28T14:10:06-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-28-07, Published: 10-28-07
Status: Complete

if, my darling, you can believe in time, then you can believe that when I woke this morning I was not in love with you, and now, ever so gently and ever so slightly, I am.

carried away

2007-10-27T19:01:13-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 138, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-27-07, Published: 10-27-07
Status: Complete

love: that perfidious being with the roguish smile whom we all curse but secretly adore

a city of ridiculous dreams

2007-10-27T18:58:34-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 441, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-27-07, Published: 10-27-07
Status: Complete

prose: the rosy glow of her past fades into a sepia present.

new york midnight

2007-09-13T20:23:12-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-13-07, Published: 9-13-07
Status: Complete

and here I am, in the city of hustlebustle can'tstopmoving mustgetsomewherebiggerbetter.

wanderlust, again

2007-09-08T18:11:56-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-8-07, Published: 9-8-07
Status: Complete

to stagnate is the only hell I know.

in love and in longing

2007-09-04T21:30:27-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-4-07, Published: 9-4-07
Status: Complete

but you and your unconsciousness never could listen, could you?

autumn

2007-08-08T00:32:00-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 62, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-8-07, Published: 8-8-07
Status: Complete

I wonder why it's only autumn on random tuesdays, and why my fear can't shelter me from you in every other season.

plain black coffee

2007-07-26T14:43:32-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-26-07, Published: 7-26-07
Status: Complete

a love poem: I hate to say the obvious, but I was once a wistful coffeegirl.

sisyphus

2007-07-18T18:26:16-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 98, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-18-07, Published: 7-18-07
Status: Complete

the catch in your romanticized plan is that I saw you push the boulder down the hill.

beloved of the moon

2007-07-14T18:20:32-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-14-07, Published: 7-14-07
Status: Complete

a love poem: the lonely night begins, and with the rise of moonbeams, love seems much too far away. and yesterday I glimpsed your coffee eyes: I’ve dreamt of them too many times today.

a crimson dress

2007-07-09T21:43:24-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 50, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-9-07, Published: 7-9-07
Status: Complete

prose: a crimson dress of many hues that I wear on a midsummer’s night. and my crimson dress and I, twirling, spinning, laughing, miss you when you go away.

under the cypress tree

2007-07-08T20:12:58-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-8-07, Published: 7-8-07
Status: Complete

your dark eyes are a little too warm, your smile is a little too knowing. my blood is rushing a little too swiftly and I can't do anything but fall into your arms.

delilah

2007-06-13T22:13:33-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-13-07, Published: 6-13-07
Status: Complete

wanting nothing but to touch his rough, shorn hair, how can she understand her fall from grace?

the equinox

2007-05-28T12:27:15-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-28-07, Published: 5-28-07
Status: Complete

I cannot live in this somehowworld, in this eternal equinox of perfidious fear.

spring

2007-05-28T12:22:01-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-28-07, Published: 5-28-07
Status: Complete

to live seems such a fantastical dream.

on the verge

2007-05-06T20:09:27-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-6-07, Published: 5-6-07
Status: Complete

I wonder at the fact that the moon grows still when every kite is on the verge of falling out of the sky.

perhaps

2007-05-06T20:05:14-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 0 Updated: 5-6-07, Published: 5-6-07
Status: Complete

I meet you in the parking lot, in the usual space, and we speed off with exquisite recklessness in the dead of night, thinking of nothing at all.

red wine eden

2007-05-04T17:06:13-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-4-07, Published: 5-4-07
Status: Complete

in strange, cold towns, with red wine on your bitter lips and a song lilting by our ears

I have a secret

2007-04-17T16:34:53-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 0 Updated: 4-17-07, Published: 4-17-07
Status: Complete

and in my deepest, darkest house of things hiding, illimitably close...

tangled

2007-04-15T20:43:27-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-15-07, Published: 4-15-07
Status: Complete

a deep, base yearning for something unknown and unknowable

iphigenia

2007-03-25T15:25:02-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-25-07, Published: 3-25-07
Status: Complete

a poem about the death of Iphigenia, the daughter of the Greek commander Agamemnon, who was sacrificed so her father's army could go fight at Troy: a dream of honour, a gust of wind leading far from secluded islands, to glory and war.

terra incognita

2007-03-17T18:22:06-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-17-07, Published: 3-17-07
Status: Complete

truth be told, it is the greatest thing of beauty, greatest feeling known. and yet.....

headlock

2007-02-15T20:30:51-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 0 Updated: 2-15-07, Published: 2-15-07
Status: Complete

a girl’s eyes, stuck on fields which lie outside of her bay window. as the dawn skies pale, she thinks in silence of her life confined.

puncuated life

2007-01-11T17:45:06-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 42, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-11-07, Published: 1-11-07
Status: Complete

I was playing around with punctuation and poetry format, and this is what happened. 'cacophonous silence, and a secret refuge'

nighttime peace vigil in september

2006-11-21T15:23:41-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 0 Updated: 11-21-06, Published: 11-21-06
Status: Complete

a sonnet I wrote in my head on a bridge downtown during a peace vigil, hence the title. it's not political. I'm not sure what it means.

The Lorelai

2006-09-26T22:08:32-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-26-06, Published: 9-26-06
Status: In-Progress

A sonnet written in a castle off of the Rhine River in Germany. Inspired by the Lorelai siren of legend.

army planes

2006-09-10T21:52:21-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 0 Updated: 9-10-06, Published: 9-10-06
Status: In-Progress

a sonnet: I wish for rain, for clouds and mist and gray. clouds keep the sight of army planes away.

a treehugger's nighttime sonnet

2006-08-15T21:11:58-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-15-06, Published: 8-15-06
Status: In-Progress

inspired by the night sky and shakespeare's sonnets.

walking with ghosts

2006-07-31T16:13:42-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 0 Updated: 7-31-06, Published: 7-31-06
Status: Complete

a sonnet composed about weaving your life out of your past and present, and just living instead of thinking about it.

some million lights

2006-07-25T13:15:56-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 62, Reviews: 0 Updated: 7-25-06, Published: 7-25-06
Status: In-Progress

maybe it's a dream just idle fantasy, but i'm gone from this world. written as a series of haiku.

freak storm

2006-07-18T11:48:17-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 38, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-18-06, Published: 7-18-06
Status: In-Progress

inspired by a real storm I was in and something one of my friends said.

colors of the crayon box

2006-06-20T14:51:19-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-20-06, Published: 6-20-06
Status: Complete

"traces of these ephemeron / are the traffic lights' pulse / and, perhaps, the shriek / of fury in the distance".

wanderlust

2006-06-09T21:56:08-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-9-06, Published: 6-9-06
Status: In-Progress

a 3part poem about leaving home to wander. one of my favorites.

verisimilitude

2006-06-08T20:37:15-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 7, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-8-06, Published: 6-8-06
Status: Complete

a haiku. you decide what it's about, because i'm not really sure.

the caging of beauty

2006-06-02T20:14:22-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 88, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-2-06, Published: 6-2-06
Status: Complete

"for in painting an instant / it is captured, then lost, / the memory overshadowed / by apathetic dyes"

thoughts on a cold midwinter night

2006-06-02T19:48:19-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 15, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-2-06, Published: 6-2-06
Status: In-Progress

A haiku that, ironically, was written in June.

Ode to Sonnets

2006-05-31T21:00:31-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 72, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-31-06, Published: 5-31-06
Status: Complete

The ironic thing about this sonnet, written originally to make fun of how much I suck at iambic pentameter (I have since improved) is that if you know anything about sonnets, you'll realize that it's not one. I messed up. It makes it funnier.

Sojourns

2006-02-04T11:27:23-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 204, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-4-06, Published: 2-4-06
Status: In-Progress

A short piece I wrote as a basis for a monologue in a drama class.

there's gold in johannesburg

2005-12-31T15:17:22-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 182, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-31-05, Published: 12-31-05
Status: Complete

"...leaving a meadow and the fading memory of strumming an acoustic guitar and spinning in small, tight circles..."

gray iris

2005-12-18T15:47:22-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 167, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-18-05, Published: 12-18-05
Status: In-Progress

prose: somewhere in my mind is the picture of a man walking by the sea.

the masquerade

2005-09-14T18:46:06-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-14-05, Published: 9-14-05
Status: Complete

skirts twirling and slippers treading, massive colors swirled in a circle and a frenzy.

Paper Lanterns

2005-09-05T11:04:22-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,165, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-5-05, Published: 9-5-05
Status: In-Progress

A short story of faded infatuation, betrayal, old love . . . sounds cheesy, but if you read anything of mine, read this one.

Two o'Clock

2005-05-22T02:11:04-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-22-05, Published: 5-22-05
Status: Complete

thoughts & ramblings written two minutes ago, at two in the morning

Questions

2005-04-05T21:12:19-08:00

Author: la luna cara
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 35, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-5-05, Published: 4-5-05
Status: Complete

written about that universal question: who am i anyway?