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Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume III

2009-11-03T15:07:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 70, Words: 5,642, Reviews: 102 Updated: 11-3-09, Published: 2-1-06
Status: Complete

Humor, death, bamboo, flutes, eclipses, love, angst, war, tea, moon . . . grin, laugh, weep, scowl or comment. Haikus (5-7-5), Tankas (5-7-5-7-7) or Rengas (grouped Haikus or Tankas). Or, 7-5-7 or 7-7-5 or, . . . Chronologically.

Life & Death — Vida & Muerte II, Collected Poems

2009-10-11T07:02:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 88, Words: 9,326, Reviews: 76 Updated: 10-11-09, Published: 9-27-07
Status: In-Progress

Life's a variegated animal—chameleon in its shifts, then death comes and picks a fixed color. So many wonderful things to taste and try and dream in this short life. Volume II

Abu Ghraib

2009-08-24T05:59:51-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 73, Words: 11,161, Reviews: 95 Updated: 8-24-09, Published: 7-25-04
Status: Complete

¿What profit to gain the world, but lose our hearts?

Ain't No Love Without II

2009-08-04T13:40:58-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 51, Words: 5,680, Reviews: 54 Updated: 8-4-09, Published: 5-1-08
Status: In-Progress

Been strummin' my guitar .... been listening to B.B. King ; continuation of 'Ain't No Love Without' since it ain't over til the Fat Lady sings

Nature—Naturaleza Collected Poems

2009-07-05T01:16:18-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 167, Words: 17,529, Reviews: 220 Updated: 7-5-09, Published: 12-9-04
Status: In-Progress

In still pond’s reflective mirrors far gone, Our ancestors saw themselves and all the patterns that are nature's—that are ours if we can only treasure them.

Family & Friends—Familia & Amigos Collected Poems

2009-05-03T17:56:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 169, Words: 19,491, Reviews: 240 Updated: 5-3-09, Published: 12-7-04
Status: Complete

Family's the golden crown of life—extending from the past into the future.

Angst—Angustia Collected Poems

2009-04-15T20:51:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 174, Words: 19,112, Reviews: 269 Updated: 4-15-09, Published: 12-5-04
Status: Complete

PG-dark images, cynicism, pessimism, anti-Creationism, questionable language. Corrosive vapors and liquids—wear protective clothing.

Humor—Humor Collected Poems

2009-03-27T14:24:40-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 147, Words: 17,698, Reviews: 162 Updated: 3-27-09, Published: 12-9-04
Status: Complete

Some of these you'll find amusing, some will just provoke a smirk, others might draw out a chuckle, and some—well, no apologies. ¡Hey, this ain't the comedy channel!

Ain't No Love Without

2009-02-26T15:30:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 200, Words: 23,154, Reviews: 256 Updated: 2-26-09, Published: 12-19-04
Status: In-Progress

Blues—Been listening to B.B. King, . . . been strumming

Lust & Love—Lujuria & Amor, Collected Poems

2009-02-17T05:47:49-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 84, Words: 9,784, Reviews: 81 Updated: 2-17-09, Published: 12-27-04
Status: Complete

Lust & Love—Lujuria & Amor, some thoughts about the transitions and partitions between the physical and the emotional in all its weirdness and beauty.

Religion—Religión Collected Poems

2009-01-16T06:02:04-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 87, Words: 9,874, Reviews: 182 Updated: 1-16-09, Published: 12-6-04
Status: Complete

¿What is God?¿Does He-She-It care?¿Why is Faith embedded in our Hearts?¿Where's the thanks for daily life?¿What is prophecy to us,—moderns with predictive models?¿Is religion the cure for angst—or, is angst religion's quest? Flagellants 1,000 years ago...

Random thoughts from a delusional mind

2009-01-10T13:19:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Essay
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Spiritual
Chapters: 101, Words: 17,344, Reviews: 131 Updated: 1-10-09, Published: 4-22-05
Status: In-Progress

Some thoughts—utopian perhaps, but of course nothing's objective till it impinges on you,—subjective.

Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume II

2008-12-08T06:25:33-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 209, Words: 21,876, Reviews: 376 Updated: 12-8-08, Published: 1-29-05
Status: Complete

Love II—Amor II, Collected Poems

2008-08-06T12:12:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 126, Words: 14,280, Reviews: 94 Updated: 8-6-08, Published: 12-14-06
Status: In-Progress

Charity's gentle kindness is love. Passion's violent tumult is love. So many colors to this magic rainbow that spreads arched across our souls.

Life & Death—Vida & Muerte Collected Poems

2007-11-04T02:15:53-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 203, Words: 23,068, Reviews: 173 Updated: 11-4-07, Published: 12-9-04
Status: In-Progress

Life's a variegated animal—chameleon in its shifts, then death comes and picks a fixed color. So many wonderful things to taste and try and dream in this short life.

Love—Amor Collected Poems

2007-09-14T15:22:59-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 201, Words: 23,795, Reviews: 291 Updated: 9-14-07, Published: 12-6-04
Status: Complete

Charity's gentle kindness is love. Passion's violent tumult is love. So many colors to this magic rainbow that spreads arched across our souls.

SMS Haikus

2007-08-26T01:09:07-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: General
Chapters: 41, Words: 3,037, Reviews: 20 Updated: 8-26-07, Published: 6-16-07
Status: In-Progress

Text messages: ephemeral and condensed. Entered and ordered chronologically.

A Winter in Africa

2007-05-19T06:21:38-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 33, Words: 3,970, Reviews: 66 Updated: 5-19-07, Published: 7-7-06
Status: Complete

Everything in Africa can kill you, and will if it can; but, everything in Africa can steal your heart and soul, and does.

Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume I

2007-04-23T03:08:18-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 228, Words: 20,895, Reviews: 129 Updated: 4-23-07, Published: 11-28-04
Status: Complete

Humor, death, bamboo, flutes, eclipses, love, angst, war, tea, moon . . . grin, laugh, weep, scowl or comment. Most of my Haikus (5-7-5), Tankas (5-7-5-7-7) or Rengas (grouped Haikus or Tankas). Or, 7-5-7 or 7-7-5 or, . . . Chronologically.

Darwin’s Favorite Ball Game

2006-01-22T19:32:17-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Historical
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,564, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-22-06, Published: 1-22-06
Status: Complete

In 1962 during a S.F. Giant vs. St. Louis Cardinal game, my dad gave a baseball autographed by Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, the Alou Brothers to his boss's son. The Giants won the N.L. pennant that year.

Teacher Vignettes

2005-11-05T10:43:51-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Work
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 12, Words: 2,319, Reviews: 45 Updated: 11-5-05, Published: 5-14-05
Status: Complete

Teaching and learning—as the Chinese say, Give a man a fish,—You feed him for a day; Teach him to fish,—You feed him for life.

West Side of Town

2004-12-03T19:39:06-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Work
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 44, Reviews: 11 Updated: 12-3-04, Published: 12-3-04
Status: Complete

A lifetime of doing crazily dangerous things (by most people's standards), but protected in so many other ways.

High School Reunion

2004-12-03T15:59:47-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: School
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 17 Updated: 12-3-04, Published: 12-3-04
Status: Complete

I've never been back, but I've been told of Gulliver and his large size, . . .

Shiraz Melody

2004-12-01T14:03:35-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 26, Reviews: 13 Updated: 12-1-04, Published: 12-1-04
Status: Complete

¿How does sound taste and sight?

Untamed Heart

2004-12-01T09:55:43-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 8 Updated: 12-1-04, Published: 12-1-04
Status: Complete

I've heard about this thing called love, it's living somewhere inaccessible to man.

Life Without Sleep

2004-11-30T18:53:49-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-30-04, Published: 11-30-04
Status: Complete

Expanded comment to KonekOniko’s “Contemplation” story id 1771838. ¿What's death, but sleep without dreams? ¿But, isn't life a dream?

¿Which Consumeth Which?

2004-11-30T17:52:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-30-04, Published: 11-30-04
Status: Complete

¿Once the sparks's lit—does the love consume the heart, or the other way around?

Love's Illusions

2004-11-28T04:14:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 15 Updated: 11-28-04, Published: 11-28-04
Status: Complete

Love can paint such pretty pictures, but sometimes they've been touched up.

Suspended Syzygy

2004-11-27T07:40:14-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-27-04, Published: 11-27-04
Status: Complete

Speeding north,—7:24 a.m., Full moon and sun hung above horizon.

Cocoa Cup Storm Haiku

2004-11-26T08:46:59-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 38, Reviews: 12 Updated: 11-26-04, Published: 11-26-04
Status: Complete

In the middle of hoary white winter, Hot cocoa brings tropic’s shining heat.

Uncommon

2004-11-26T08:03:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-26-04, Published: 11-26-04
Status: Complete

Verses of four, syllables four—¿Qua Train? There’s a crazy sanity in rhyming.

Night Dive

2004-11-26T07:30:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 62, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-26-04, Published: 11-26-04
Status: Complete

Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus take, Under moonlight’s glow walk into the sea.

Her, His, Us Memories

2004-11-25T10:51:37-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 220, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-25-04, Published: 11-25-04
Status: Complete

‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’© An odyssey of love in daily life, Here’s words unsaid should have been on the tape.

¿What’s a Rose?

2004-11-25T08:06:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 84, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-25-04, Published: 11-25-04
Status: Complete

A day of peaceful thoughts and reverie, A day of clear skies and bright yellow sun.

Thanksgiving 2004

2004-11-25T04:35:40-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-25-04, Published: 11-25-04
Status: Complete

Pure heart was temple enough for Jesus, ¿Do we have the courage to build our own?

How We See

2004-11-24T16:34:20-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-24-04, Published: 11-24-04
Status: Complete

In still pond’s reflective mirrors far gone, Our ancestors saw themselves and asked this. From a comment to East-Of-Eden’s “Mirror Girl,” story id 1719486

Unbounded Storm

2004-11-24T02:17:05-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-24-04, Published: 11-24-04
Status: Complete

There are some things that we can only watch, Portents of forces immeasurable.

She Signals When She Wants Me

2004-11-23T06:12:51-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-23-04, Published: 11-23-04
Status: Complete

Black, lithe, fleet—a mass of straight lissome hair . . .

Memories Fleeting

2004-11-23T05:58:12-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-23-04, Published: 11-23-04
Status: Complete

A.N. Expanded comment to Shiya Shoushi’s “Behind,” story id 1765731. Isn't leaving really traces in mind's memory?

Flood Warning

2004-11-22T09:38:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-22-04, Published: 11-22-04
Status: Complete

Nature's vault pours out tons of rain with displays of lightning & thunder . . as in all life.

Sealed Fate

2004-11-21T16:04:33-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-21-04, Published: 11-21-04
Status: Complete

If we had time to wait forever, we could weave a magic carpet with time's strands.

No Dear, Not Just Yet

2004-11-21T10:31:37-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-21-04, Published: 11-21-04
Status: Complete

Every day’s a special joy to be known, Brief and fleet of foot they wander past us.

True Love

2004-11-21T07:48:19-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 92, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-21-04, Published: 11-21-04
Status: Complete

Having loved many wonderful women, There's one whose firm embrace I won't evade.

Darkness Came and Went

2004-11-20T16:53:04-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 168, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-20-04, Published: 11-20-04
Status: Complete

I had a premonition yesterday, And so today drove very carefully.

Premonition

2004-11-19T09:17:32-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-19-04, Published: 11-19-04
Status: Complete

Sometimes we see the haunting future far, Can only briefly show what it seems like.

¿Who Made Who and Why? Haiku

2004-11-18T16:15:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-18-04, Published: 11-18-04
Status: Complete

There is a question about origins, some people think that Faith can answer it.

One Prayer

2004-11-15T17:53:42-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 124, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-15-04, Published: 11-15-04
Status: Complete

There's a simple prayer that all men and women can share, . . .

Unanswered, Love Questions

2004-11-14T17:58:59-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 150, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-14-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

“I Can See Answers on Your Face, ¿But where they tears that streaked down cheeks?” 17 lines (grouped 4-1-4-4-1-3) of 11 syllables each.

Two Halves Form One

2004-11-14T17:34:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-14-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

¿Is Love Rational or Irrational ? 15-13, 15-13, 10-9, 10-9

Gossamer Touch

2004-11-14T12:21:44-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 4 Updated: 11-14-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

“Ruben Dario sings that love still finds, -Us, with white hairs, looking for rose’s bloom.”

Tonsorial Artist

2004-11-12T10:16:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-12-04, Published: 11-12-04
Status: Complete

Dedicated to those that care for us once we are past caring.

Time's Span

2004-11-12T08:12:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-12-04, Published: 11-12-04
Status: Complete

“My clock has nearly unwound its resorts, -Yet, for You, there’s always Time enough, Love.”

Tea Ceremony

2004-11-11T06:13:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 7 Updated: 11-11-04, Published: 11-11-04
Status: Complete

From Oda Nobunaga’s time this came, -Something between a Mass and Nature’s song.

Immortals Alone At Last

2004-11-11T05:14:17-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-11-04, Published: 11-11-04
Status: Complete

PG-13 Rough language. Third poem about Jupiter-Venus. This a.m. the moon was completely occulted and so only Jupiter and Venus remained discernible.

Venus Jupiter Cavort

2004-11-10T10:47:14-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-10-04, Published: 11-10-04
Status: Complete

This a.m. the crescent moon lay below Jupiter and Venus.

Hello Kiss Haiku

2004-11-09T17:33:38-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 5 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

In response to Faithless Juliet’s “Pink.” www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1756830

Time's Wine

2004-11-09T17:23:53-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 35, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

A pause, then we can feel the taste of time.

Sky Empty But For Clouds

2004-11-09T17:09:29-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

Even a sky without stars or moon or sun gives us so much.

True Love Always Waits

2004-11-09T13:30:25-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

¿Is it always Love that patient waits?

No Mask

2004-11-09T04:55:56-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

An elaborated comment to kerbieflaw’s “Serenade” www.fictionpress.com(slash)read.php?storyid=1756443 Please refer to National Public Radio’s feature about Alice Coltrane’s ‘Linear Light’

Unredeemed

2004-11-09T03:30:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-9-04, Published: 11-9-04
Status: Complete

"For I know that my redemeer liveth" Psalms

Post Election Blues

2004-11-06T13:03:31-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-6-04, Published: 11-6-04
Status: Complete

A comment to chocoholic's satirical essay on why post-election everyone in the USA will be listening to Country music.

¿Is This a Prayer?

2004-11-06T06:14:11-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-6-04, Published: 11-6-04
Status: Complete

A little verse that woke up with me this morning.

Orb to Orb Haiku

2004-11-06T00:22:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-6-04, Published: 11-6-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Pimpled Boy’s “A Collection of Japanese Haikus” and yesterday’s run during which the resplendent sun shone through a clear blue sky and diffracted its light in my eye.

Man Unsure

2004-11-03T15:50:38-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 44, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-3-04, Published: 11-3-04
Status: Complete

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—A sequence to a question.

North Wind's Play

2004-11-03T05:24:07-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-3-04, Published: 11-3-04
Status: Complete

A cool wind blows a momentary storm, crashes all power, and gives a brief respite . . .

To Never More

2004-11-02T16:26:49-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-2-04, Published: 11-2-04
Status: Complete

In response to Siberia1's poem "No More" www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1751241

Truth's Truth

2004-11-02T03:42:33-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 44, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-2-04, Published: 11-2-04
Status: Complete

A short little poem about truth—what can you say in a few words, . . .

Love's Love

2004-11-01T18:53:18-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-1-04, Published: 11-1-04
Status: Complete

A tanka (5, 7, 5, 7, 7) inspired by kerbieflaw’s “Reflections in the glass.” www.fictionpress.com(slash)read.php?storyid=1750834

Touch, So Gentle

2004-11-01T12:38:44-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-1-04, Published: 11-1-04
Status: Complete

A tanka (+)—5, 7, 5, 7, 7, (7)

Hummingbird Prophecy

2004-11-01T08:52:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-1-04, Published: 11-1-04
Status: Complete

About the moment in the movie "Ray" when he hears a hummingbird's heart skip a beat.

Some Friends Put On a Skit

2004-11-01T06:17:14-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 2 Updated: 11-1-04, Published: 11-1-04
Status: Complete

Dedicated to some friends that wrote and produced a play.

Quick Quirks

2004-10-31T03:42:04-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-31-04, Published: 10-31-04
Status: Complete

¿Is it just perspective, or does everything shift when you look at things?

Two Frog Bowl

2004-10-31T03:17:38-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-31-04, Published: 10-31-04
Status: Complete

Two happy frogs in bowl of cool water. 4 stanzas in 8-6-6-8 format.

RabbitSheepBoar

2004-10-30T17:52:56-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-30-04, Published: 10-30-04
Status: Complete

I'm starting to believe there's something to this Zodiac thing.

Sear'd Tears

2004-10-30T11:06:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 157, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-30-04, Published: 10-30-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Kelpylion’s “Timid Sleeper.” and of course, the Bard’s “My way of life has fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf . . .” .

Simple Stalks of Grass

2004-10-28T15:29:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 173, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-28-04, Published: 10-28-04
Status: Complete

Not comparable to Whitman—just delighting in simple roadside views.

Morning Full Moon Renga

2004-10-27T14:37:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-27-04, Published: 10-27-04
Status: Complete

A few haiku anticipating tonight's lunar eclipse while looking at the early morning's full moon.

Short Joys

2004-10-26T04:30:53-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-26-04, Published: 10-26-04
Status: Complete

A thought on Honey Nut Loop's "Pointless Joy."

Two Lip Haiku

2004-10-24T18:15:29-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 62, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

Two lips—tulips.

Intensity

2004-10-24T18:03:53-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

An accident produces pain that goes on day after day, . . .

Little Toad Whine

2004-10-24T15:13:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

No matter who or what you are, everyone's got a complaint. 5-7-7-5 for the purists to know in advance.

Ocean's Siren Call

2004-10-24T10:40:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 98, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

The sea our primal blood.

Thrombosis

2004-10-24T07:39:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

Thrombosis or embolism. What fortune to be able to die from a clot fixed or wandering when the rest of the world openly bleeds.

Quinceañera

2004-10-24T03:30:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-24-04, Published: 10-24-04
Status: Complete

My daughter's first formal ball.

Holy Death

2004-10-22T19:45:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Religion
Language: Spanish, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-22-04, Published: 10-22-04
Status: Complete

A translation of ms. mary jane's "la santa muerte" www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1741861

Wandering Miscreant

2004-10-22T18:55:30-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-22-04, Published: 10-22-04
Status: Complete

I wish every letter had a color or a tone—anyway, ¿Do you like Count Basie? ¿Jazz?

Night Passion

2004-10-17T18:22:32-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-17-04, Published: 10-17-04
Status: Complete

Cooling off after a run, the body starts dreaming . . .

She Eased My Pain

2004-10-17T17:36:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-17-04, Published: 10-17-04
Status: Complete

You meet someone you'll never meet again; and, they still leave you a gift unexpected.

¿Inside—Outside?

2004-10-17T09:11:34-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-17-04, Published: 10-17-04
Status: Complete

Internal pain, external wounds.

King's Inn

2004-10-16T10:27:09-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 152, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-16-04, Published: 10-16-04
Status: Complete

The old and the new merge—especially in old, old towns.

Harvest Run

2004-10-16T09:56:42-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-16-04, Published: 10-16-04
Status: Complete

The English countryside in Fall during a run, . . .

Taunton Graveyard

2004-10-16T09:08:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 37, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-16-04, Published: 10-16-04
Status: Complete

Stars form carbon basic construct of all life. And then we share it across centuries.

Song of Her

2004-10-16T08:29:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-16-04, Published: 10-16-04
Status: Complete

Of all the things to choose, . . .

NonPC

2004-10-15T20:24:47-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Politics
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

History doesn't repeat because they don't learn, they're learning, just the wrong things!

Past the Bridge and Back

2004-10-15T15:37:30-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

In the dark you run half blind and sometimes really get to see.

Water's Color

2004-10-15T15:09:42-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

Interesting how colors blend and how different media wash onto white.

Two Leagues

2004-10-15T15:04:24-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

Our bodies, vessels that contain both pain and ecstasy.

Peony Paviliion

2004-10-15T14:30:56-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 227, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

An ancient Chinese fairy tale of 55 chapters boiled down to one little poem!

Indian Givers

2004-10-08T22:56:17-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 115, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-8-04, Published: 10-8-04
Status: Complete

So much joy time brings to us, but then returns it all with pain.

Off to School She Goes

2004-10-08T04:46:39-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 115, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-8-04, Published: 10-8-04
Status: Complete

A little rhyme about everyone's busy-busy life.

Travel Bag

2004-10-07T18:32:00-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-7-04, Published: 10-7-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Beth Morgan's "Take Up Your Soul." How few the things we really need when we set upon our way.

Why I Bleed

2004-10-07T03:04:35-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 92, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-7-04, Published: 10-7-04
Status: Complete

Oh yes, I'm into bleeding too, . . .

Smooth'd Vision

2004-10-03T17:15:39-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-3-04, Published: 10-3-04
Status: Complete

We percieve the world in snippets and translate it into continuity.

Unkempt Things

2004-10-03T14:50:50-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-3-04, Published: 10-3-04
Status: Complete

Let the yard go for a while and see what crops up.

Things To Do

2004-10-03T14:38:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-3-04, Published: 10-3-04
Status: Complete

The mechanics of life could consume every moment.

Trampled Brambles

2004-10-03T11:28:27-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 265, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-3-04, Published: 10-3-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by DiJen's "Rambles, Rants and None Above." These haikus are a one-for-one shadow.

Under Stand

2004-10-03T07:52:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-3-04, Published: 10-3-04
Status: Complete

Onomatopoeia is a form of thank you, but all I can do is poorly rhyme—a Dr. Zeuss like little poem. (Bad pun, I know, but, ¡He truly was a god of rhyme)

Star'song

2004-10-02T22:55:10-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

Star dust we walk a remnant of a sun now dead.

Unwanted Thorns

2004-10-02T20:37:18-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 49, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

Eradicated from the "nicer" places, thorn'd weeds still fluorish in their wildness.

Thistle's Sonnet

2004-10-02T16:15:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

¿Have you ever closely examined a thistle? What an elegant and beautiful functionality!

¿Bored?

2004-10-02T07:08:35-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 54, Reviews: 4 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

¿What does it mean to be bored?

Storm's Eye

2004-10-02T05:54:57-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 44, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

The eye of the hurricane gives a false sense of relief.

¿How to Read the Heart?

2004-10-02T02:20:45-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 67, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-2-04, Published: 10-2-04
Status: Complete

¿Is our experience translatable to another's language?¿What does it take to understand another?¿Is another's grimace, just one person's answer or is it the world's?

Tectonic Shifts

2004-10-01T16:25:30-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-1-04, Published: 10-1-04
Status: Complete

Rolling verdant hills, flowered river banks, run a few miles in the English countryside and feel its geology.

Thinking Like a Lawyer

2004-10-01T13:45:54-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-1-04, Published: 10-1-04
Status: Complete

Barristers are taught to take up either side of an argument.

Thorn'd Arrangement

2004-09-30T06:12:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 50, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-30-04, Published: 9-30-04
Status: Complete

Wild grasses offer symmetry and beauty in their fierce competitiveness.

Holy Loch to Glasgow

2004-09-29T21:02:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 90, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-29-04, Published: 9-29-04
Status: Complete

Scotland's natural beauty haunts while on the land, upon the sea or in its airs; and, persists long afterwards.

¿Is It You That’s Mad?

2004-09-29T04:59:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-29-04, Published: 9-29-04
Status: Complete

What's normalcy when all of us are crzy (1 of 5 kids has some mental problem, 1 of 4 teenagers is depressed, ...)

Oxford Renga

2004-09-29T03:25:15-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 292, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-29-04, Published: 9-29-04
Status: Complete

5 Haikus about Oxford, a wonderful mythic land in shroud covered England.

Somewhere Safe

2004-09-29T02:22:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-29-04, Published: 9-29-04
Status: Complete

I woke up from a dream this morn, with this riddle in my soul.

Pirated Roles

2004-09-17T02:40:02-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-17-04, Published: 9-17-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Jo the Pirates "Stellar Poker"

Instant—Eternal

2004-09-16T14:46:33-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 7 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

A little thing can be as wide as all the universe.

It's Time

2004-09-16T11:30:10-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

It's time to leave a life familiar of going out to sea and camaraderie.

Time's Serpent

2004-09-16T03:01:35-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 125, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

Ouroburos, a snake eating its own tail—DNA, energy cycles, ONE, . . . .

Sun Gives All

2004-09-16T02:36:14-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

¿Does love need reciprocity?

Spiral Smile

2004-09-16T02:34:34-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

A loving smile can heal so much.

Siren Dwells at Home

2004-09-16T02:33:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-16-04, Published: 9-16-04
Status: Complete

A little poem about a wonderful siren that lives . . .

Hurricane Season

2004-09-15T03:57:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-15-04, Published: 9-15-04
Status: Complete

Hurricanes, Typhoons, Monsoons, Tornados—power creative and destructive.

Love's Balm

2004-09-14T17:42:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-14-04, Published: 9-14-04
Status: Complete

As the bard put it, "—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."

Twilight's Haiku

2004-09-14T00:38:43-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-14-04, Published: 9-14-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by twilightwriter07's haiku "Auroras."

Shiva Shakti

2004-09-13T17:04:56-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-13-04, Published: 9-13-04
Status: Complete

Kundalini resides at the base of the spinal cord. The goal is to awaken this energy so it can bind at the crown of the head with Shiva—duality into union, fusion and transcendence.

PERSON !

2004-09-13T16:23:50-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 91, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-13-04, Published: 9-13-04
Status: Complete

A thank you to all those that take their precious time to read and to comment.

Who Owns It All

2004-09-13T00:13:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 278, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-13-04, Published: 9-13-04
Status: Complete

We've domesticated any beast or plant that's any use to use. Soon there won't be a wild thing that's not in a zoo. Better yet we'll fix our own DNA too.

Winter Hordes

2004-09-12T14:35:23-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

Russian winters repulsed Napoleon and Hitler, but the Khan's armies trained and fought in the winter.

Masseter Myositis

2004-09-12T13:29:54-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

Even our best friends can get attacked from within.

Sandy Foot Steps

2004-09-12T12:44:24-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

¿What can last when written in the sands of time?

Morning Cocoa

2004-09-12T10:07:25-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 56, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

To the co-co-a lovers of the world, drink chocolate and be merry.

Synesthete

2004-09-12T08:14:50-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 84, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

Synesthetes are humans that associate colours with words or sounds, perhaps A# is yellow-green to me.

Sonnet Comments

2004-09-12T05:06:14-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-12-04, Published: 9-12-04
Status: Complete

A Sonnet about Comments on the Heart's Condition. ¿How's your blood-pressure today?

Moon's Winter Heart

2004-09-11T14:45:22-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 21, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

An echo to Obsidian Eye's haiku "Achromic Seasons."

Promised Land

2004-09-11T13:38:24-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Christine Redman-Waldeyer’s “Surrender to the Peace.”

Throwaway

2004-09-11T12:42:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

¿Is everything disposable now? I guess we can only laugh about it.

Loss and Pain

2004-09-11T06:59:05-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by u-will-never-know’s haiku “Through Your Eyes.”

Roadkill

2004-09-11T05:18:20-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

We've paved an area the size of Ohio, we've made enough golf courses to cover Pennsylvania, where do the wild things go?

Rainbow Man

2004-09-11T05:11:07-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

AB-, B-, AB+, A-, O-, B+, A+, O+ . . . ¿What's your blood type?¿Will you ever need a transfusion?

Redhead

2004-09-11T04:52:07-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

“Imagination’s a Great Companion, especially on a long-distance flight.”

Quiet Serenity

2004-09-11T00:37:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

¿Ever have that moment when you have something to say, but can't find any words?

Question

2004-09-11T00:12:44-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-11-04, Published: 9-11-04
Status: Complete

100 syllables that ponder a beauty's answer to a simple question—ah, but then Men truly are from Mars and Women did originate in Venus!

Queer to Dance When You're So Far

2004-09-10T23:57:49-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

The rhythm of our hearts can span the oceans and beat in synchronicity.

Starpoet's Haiku

2004-09-10T23:28:54-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 152, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Starpoet’s “Alone are the Stars. A a wonderful poem that paints a huge contrast and image; and a piercing question—¿Huge fusion burning bright or fusion’s residue, which would you rather be?

Quaint Quest

2004-09-10T16:11:42-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 6 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

There's a Jimmy Cliff song set to biblical verse, "By the Rivers of Babylon . . . " It captures so much of captivates the heart . . .

Pithy Aphorism

2004-09-10T16:02:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

Kurt Gödel's "Incompleteness Theorem" states something to the effect that logical systems can either be complete or consistent, but not both. ¿Duh, where's love fit in?

Picky, Picky Heart

2004-09-10T15:55:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 6 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

¿How does the heart choose?

Moon at 0528 am

2004-09-10T04:01:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-10-04, Published: 9-10-04
Status: Complete

The moon is a form-shifter, yet she's constant.

Hurricane, Huracan

2004-09-09T09:44:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-9-04, Published: 9-9-04
Status: Complete

An echo to Nishido's Infortunio-Misfortune. An english and a spanish haiku.

Hunting Season

2004-09-09T08:35:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Adventure/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-9-04, Published: 9-9-04
Status: Complete

Nature's cycle—life to death. Beauty in its rotundity.

Person

2004-09-09T06:58:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 52, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-9-04, Published: 9-9-04
Status: Complete

Person, some-person, no-person, Noh-person—masks and Noh plays, mystery of life.

Summer Leopard Spots

2004-09-09T00:04:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-9-04, Published: 9-9-04
Status: Complete

The Egyptians adored felines. ¿Are they the only worshippers in abandoned temples now?

Spring Flowers

2004-09-08T23:54:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 30, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-8-04, Published: 9-8-04
Status: Complete

Inspired by Kairi Miyazawa’s “Trees” Haiku. Only that which bends can at times escapes the strong buffeting storms.

Winter Kisses

2004-09-08T23:42:00-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 33, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-8-04, Published: 9-8-04
Status: Complete

Snowflakes and kisses in front of a warm, cozy hearth.

Goodnight, Sleep Tight echo 1

2004-09-08T12:59:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-8-04, Published: 9-8-04
Status: Complete

A sonnet written in collaboration about night's dreams.

Ouch

2004-09-08T12:26:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 7 Updated: 9-8-04, Published: 9-8-04
Status: Complete

An echo of a friend's work about Touch-me-not flowers. ¿How sensitive is your skin?¿Where does pleasure shift to pain?

The White Rose

2004-09-06T05:33:49-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-6-04, Published: 9-6-04
Status: Complete

The first poem I ever learned, by Jose Marti (Cuban). Free verse translation.

Thank You Song

2004-09-06T00:33:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-6-04, Published: 9-6-04
Status: Complete

I stopped looking at the TV long ago, the news now seldom read; but, a little bird's song will perk my ears.

North Star

2004-09-06T00:31:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 119, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-6-04, Published: 9-6-04
Status: Complete

About seeing something to take us there.

Witty Ditty for a Bitty

2004-09-06T00:29:34-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 130, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-6-04, Published: 9-6-04
Status: Complete

A little poem, sort-a-kind-a-fun-like, but maybe there's lots more . . . .

Guide Post

2004-09-06T00:27:55-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-6-04, Published: 9-6-04
Status: Complete

We've given up our old means of sighting navigational guides, how do we steer our courses now?

Moroccan Smile

2004-09-05T13:14:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-5-04, Published: 9-5-04
Status: Complete

You meet people that work away from home, simple, struggling; but, still offering their smile.

Saucy Red Lipstick2

2004-09-05T13:09:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-5-04, Published: 9-5-04
Status: Complete

A collaboration on a jazz-succint poem about a sparkling dancer by Jo The Pirate and me.

HighWire

2004-09-04T14:10:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-4-04, Published: 9-4-04
Status: Complete

Quantum dynamical our existence, our minds create the way.

Lens Prophecy

2004-09-04T14:07:38-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-4-04, Published: 9-4-04
Status: Complete

If you could divine futures, would you have the patience to wait?

Soar

2004-09-04T08:10:13-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-4-04, Published: 9-4-04
Status: Complete

There was a time when children made toys out of wood, paper, or other things nature gave.

Luna's Rising

2004-09-04T08:04:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 65, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-4-04, Published: 9-4-04
Status: Complete

Our nightly companion needs must wake, sometimes in curlers and skin-cream.

Said Again and Again

2004-09-03T01:20:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-3-04, Published: 9-3-04
Status: Complete

It's all been said by poets and bards much greater that us, but our own humble words add nuances to the stream of words.

Tasty YellowOrange

2004-09-03T00:45:40-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-3-04, Published: 9-3-04
Status: Complete

Dedicated to everyone that's commented on my poems. Your words are as tasty as Nasturtium's flower.

Typhoon Song

2004-09-02T23:48:27-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 6 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

In Chaos theory, non-repeatable events can be dramatically changed by the almost negligible effects of even a butterfly's wings.

Toad's Croon

2004-09-02T11:33:20-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Parody/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

Everyone's a crooner now, smoothly swinging verses in soft melodies, . . .

Short Trip

2004-09-02T07:50:20-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

Short the trip, long the taste of wonderment.

Gypsy's Song

2004-09-02T07:37:17-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 34, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

There are voices that enthrall and captivate with tonalities of Siren's calling us to crash upon cragged shores.

Promise This I To Thee

2004-09-02T07:33:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 1 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

If there was one promise that you'd keep, what would it be?

Quetzalcoatl's Fruit

2004-09-02T07:24:59-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 35, Reviews: 2 Updated: 9-2-04, Published: 9-2-04
Status: Complete

¡The Aztecs loved chocolate, delicious its taste, they ate everything with it, even human meat!

Swim Love

2004-08-31T07:36:47-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-31-04, Published: 8-31-04
Status: Complete

We once were destined to go into the ocean, but found our ways back to the savannah. What would our love in the ocean have been like?

The Forest

2004-08-31T05:01:30-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-31-04, Published: 8-31-04
Status: Complete

A collaboration with B. Itozuku on a poem about longing . . .

Swoosh

2004-08-31T02:35:39-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Parody/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-31-04, Published: 8-31-04
Status: Complete

What would be the perfect game of pool? A man imagines such a duel with an opponent, well . . . PG-sexual innuendos

Pledge

2004-08-31T02:26:30-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 26, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-31-04, Published: 8-31-04
Status: Complete

To the image of one who'll come. How does the song go? Some day she'll come along, the gal I love, and she'll be - - - -

She Said

2004-08-30T05:02:44-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Fantasy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-30-04, Published: 8-30-04
Status: Complete

Sometimes we glance a life that we could have shared, but overlapping life's harder than making quilts.

Snipe

2004-08-30T04:59:23-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Work
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-30-04, Published: 8-30-04
Status: Complete

To those that outside of air conditioned offices face the bleakness & exposure of work's blasts or relentless sun.

Life's Walk

2004-08-29T06:39:32-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-29-04, Published: 8-29-04
Status: Complete

¿Do all roads lead to You?

I've Left

2004-08-29T06:31:22-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-29-04, Published: 8-29-04
Status: Complete

¿Do the God's walk the earth? ¿And how did Europa get pregnant? ¿Are there virgin births?

Horse of Light

2004-08-29T06:25:10-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-29-04, Published: 8-29-04
Status: Complete

We ride towards destiny, but our hearts hold the reins.

Pauper

2004-08-27T05:33:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-27-04, Published: 8-27-04
Status: Complete

I passed a charred stump and reflex turned 'round to find a woman begging for my soul.

Two

2004-08-25T04:32:54-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-25-04, Published: 8-25-04
Status: Complete

Have you ever loved to perfection? Someone whose lifespan matched hour-for-hour and beat-to-beat?

HtWtW How to Win the War

2004-08-25T04:19:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-25-04, Published: 8-25-04
Status: Complete

7-7/7-7-7/7-7-7/7-A sketch for a longer poem about a man's intent to seduce a woman. PG-13 for implicit sexual nuances.

Things I Loved

2004-08-20T02:24:57-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-20-04, Published: 8-20-04
Status: Complete

Our memory, Proust's pralines, merges past and present; and, the raw edge of the present mellows like fine wine.

The Wind Stole the Message

2004-08-20T02:19:47-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-20-04, Published: 8-20-04
Status: Complete

¿Why do our paths part?

Tactical Adept

2004-08-19T20:25:11-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 125, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-19-04, Published: 8-19-04
Status: Complete

Tsun Tsu, the great Chinese tactician, never lost a battle. That advice if properly applied could lead to great success.

Sweet Tang

2004-08-19T20:19:34-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-19-04, Published: 8-19-04
Status: Complete

Some orange trees are bred for sweetness and others for their tang—¿Is there a perfect crossing between the two?

Summer Holiday

2004-08-19T11:58:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-19-04, Published: 8-19-04
Status: Complete

They waded in with all their clothes, while everyone in swimsuits stood and gaped.

So Far and Near

2004-08-19T11:39:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 124, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-19-04, Published: 8-19-04
Status: Complete

Man's dream of distant perfection always seems so close.

Slip of the Tongue

2004-08-18T23:25:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-18-04, Published: 8-18-04
Status: Complete

A modern version of Pushkin's poem about a romantic slip of the tongue. ¿Or, do women ever say what they mean or mean what they say to men?

Regent

2004-08-17T18:58:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-17-04, Published: 8-17-04
Status: Complete

The Red Queen rules the King of Hearts.

Queen of Tainos

2004-08-17T18:48:53-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-17-04, Published: 8-17-04
Status: Complete

Anacaona was the indian queen of Haiti. She died tortured by the Spaniards, but never gave up her husband. PG13-violence.

Perseus Unbinds

2004-08-17T04:32:09-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 251, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-17-04, Published: 8-17-04
Status: Complete

Andromeda-white flower and constellation lies with broken back in pain, longing to be saved.

Permissions

2004-08-17T04:18:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-17-04, Published: 8-17-04
Status: Complete

PG-topic and issues. ¿So everyone's fit to be a mother or father?

Night Raid

2004-08-16T15:47:11-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-16-04, Published: 8-16-04
Status: Complete

¿So you think that there are peaceful villagers in some remote corner of the world? Don't be taken like Margaret Mead, read Napoleon Chagnon's YANOMANO.

No Dew Saved Them From the Sun

2004-08-16T02:59:28-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-16-04, Published: 8-16-04
Status: Complete

Wild prairie flowers only bloom when intense fires rupture the hard seeds.

Night Jog

2004-08-16T02:46:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-16-04, Published: 8-16-04
Status: Complete

Those that come behind us soon pass, no matter what the skill or will.

Moonlight Sang a Minor Chord

2004-08-16T02:23:26-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-16-04, Published: 8-16-04
Status: Complete

Our muse smiles when fortune calls with unexpected gifts.

Nasty Temper

2004-08-15T20:24:27-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 121, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-15-04, Published: 8-15-04
Status: Complete

¿When our snarls and grows issue forth with bared white fangs, how do others react?

Prairie Voles Vice Meadow Voles

2004-08-15T20:12:44-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-15-04, Published: 8-15-04
Status: Complete

They've found a way to make voles monogamous. But it was the wild prairie ones that were monogamous to begin with, the tamer meadow voles were the promiscous ones.

My Laughter Made You Sad

2004-08-13T20:43:09-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-13-04, Published: 8-13-04
Status: Complete

We laugh, not knowing if others understand we're laughing with them, not at them.

Musical Gyrations

2004-08-13T04:24:05-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-13-04, Published: 8-13-04
Status: Complete

We spin others and twirl ourselves when we dance. After watching a troupe of young kids do ballet.

Music Hums From You

2004-08-13T03:08:29-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-13-04, Published: 8-13-04
Status: Complete

Music makes us resonate, so can love.

Her Love

2004-08-12T19:01:02-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-12-04, Published: 8-12-04
Status: Complete

We take for granted love freely given; and, lightly think we can regain it when we want. Then, looking back, realize it was our only moment true.

Minotaur Loved Ariadne

2004-08-11T22:26:03-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-11-04, Published: 8-11-04
Status: Complete

Man is led by a nose-ring in woman's mazes. Not a misogynist's opinion.

Morning Aperitif

2004-08-11T02:56:37-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-11-04, Published: 8-11-04
Status: Complete

The things you hear on an airplane!

Methuselah's Love Quandary

2004-08-10T21:13:06-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-10-04, Published: 8-10-04
Status: Complete

¿How late is late when love comes knocking at the door? ¿When does it stop?

Mermaid Breath

2004-08-10T20:41:31-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-10-04, Published: 8-10-04
Status: Complete

¿Have you had a good whiff of pheromones lately? It might uplift your spirits. Better than single malt scotch.

Manufactured Love

2004-08-10T03:57:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-10-04, Published: 8-10-04
Status: Complete

Maya's veil hides reality, especially when in Love!

Inspiration

2004-08-09T16:27:21-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-9-04, Published: 8-9-04
Status: Complete

Those who lead often pay a price.

Ion's Search

2004-08-09T01:26:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Work
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 38, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-9-04, Published: 8-9-04
Status: Complete

We're always told to pursue a passion, but there's always several cautions.

Jungle Drum Pounds

2004-08-09T01:14:52-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-9-04, Published: 8-9-04
Status: Complete

There are messages broadcast on the simplest resonators that reach across time and space.

Ineffable

2004-08-09T00:37:08-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-9-04, Published: 8-9-04
Status: Complete

Words a poor reflection of what life contains.

I Woke Amidst the Thunder

2004-08-08T13:11:36-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

A summer storm the background for our dreams.

I Would Be Your Dance Clothes

2004-08-08T13:10:19-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 48, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

Rapt in the beauty of movement, sometimes we wished we were the wrap.

¿How Can Nothing be Infinite?

2004-08-08T08:45:37-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

Limited our understanding, great our ambition we create that beyond our comprehension.

Hot Springs

2004-08-08T00:30:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 362, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

Those that have never met a witch can't believe Greek myths.

Hocked My Heart

2004-08-08T00:19:42-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

Life accrues value to the lowliest things just by living.

Her Face Enigma

2004-08-08T00:13:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

We know what we could love if we found it.

Heart Breaker

2004-08-07T14:02:02-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 28, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-7-04, Published: 8-7-04
Status: Complete

A brief little note about what a woman can do to a man's heart.

Happy Hour

2004-08-07T13:37:22-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-7-04, Published: 8-7-04
Status: Complete

The bar scene, so cool until it drools.

HalfTruths

2004-08-01T03:33:23-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-1-04, Published: 8-1-04
Status: Complete

Words are part of our tool-kit or our arsenal.

Goddess At My Door

2004-07-31T04:48:48-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-31-04, Published: 7-31-04
Status: Complete

Illusion always calls when least expected.

Making Gems

2004-07-29T02:49:02-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-29-04, Published: 7-29-04
Status: Complete

Stress is what makes carbon into diamonds, but the pressure can crush.

¿Flight or Fancy?

2004-07-28T19:20:01-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-28-04, Published: 7-28-04
Status: Complete

¿Isn't life just one set of strange circumstances after the next?

Persephone's Death Became Spring

2004-07-28T17:23:16-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-28-04, Published: 7-28-04
Status: Complete

Greek Gods still explain things pretty well.

Dream Voyage

2004-07-27T19:32:59-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-27-04, Published: 7-27-04
Status: Complete

¿How to venture forth to new shores when uncertain of directions?

Inside The Crucible of Time

2004-07-27T18:42:41-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-27-04, Published: 7-27-04
Status: Complete

"For everything, there is a season . . . "

Hooligan, ¿Am I?

2004-07-25T18:47:20-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 154, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-25-04, Published: 7-25-04
Status: Complete

¡Better to be a flea-bitten dog, than a dead-lion! Or, so it seems to me.

¡Our Talk—All Yells!

2004-07-25T07:13:11-08:00

Author: Manuel Fajar
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 154, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-25-04, Published: 7-25-04
Status: Complete

High energy our physics, into individuality we disperse.