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Burning Hot Embers Of Love

2007-05-19T13:00:36-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 242, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

Taking another path quenches not the embers of love... no matter how far away or long distant the journey, Love remains, the embers hot

Feeling The Rush Of Home

2007-05-19T12:57:18-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 268, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

Returning to a place where nature's finest abounds and remembering a past long forgotten by trodding the woodland paths...

The Tide Is On Its Way Back

2007-05-19T12:52:45-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 282, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

Having made journey to the far reaches of the other side of the water's edge where the horizon meets...

Forgiveness

2007-05-19T12:46:15-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 115, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

when sorry isn't enough and the chains remain...

Lamenting The Demise Of The Ignominious Ignor

2007-05-19T12:35:39-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,505, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

Warping between being on a Train seemingly bound for Hell one meets Lady and her eventual meeting up with an old flame who once had his unchained demanding way with her, the leader of the Nazgûls....Ringwraith himself

New Wine Coming Into Full Measure

2007-05-19T02:15:18-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 113, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

New Wine New Life as it were, coming into fulness, into full measure. Nature's bounty full to overflowing.

It's Been A hard Days Night

2007-05-19T02:08:58-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Fantasy
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 237, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

Bitter cold asails while making a mountainous climb..each step growing more difficult..the angel's hand of death beckons...

Three Hour Increments

2007-05-18T08:27:41-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

Have you a match? I've a candle and healing I am in need of. Living though at times it feels more so like existing...three hours at a time. I ask, have you a match?

Just A Ghost Lingering In The Shadows

2007-05-18T08:08:47-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: T
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 231, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

So hauntenly lonely the ghost that awaits the return of a lover now gone

There Is A Man Of Shadows

2007-05-18T06:18:04-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 283, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

A man so loved and yet now beyond the veil, has rather passed into the shadows...with new awareness of the shadows received.

There Is Just Something AboutMidNight

2007-05-17T17:09:23-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

MidNight, lovin' it!

Experiening Storms Experiencing Life

2007-05-17T07:39:38-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 33, Reviews: 1, In-Progress

Burst of energy conveyed in a few lines

In The Storm Is Found Peacefulness

2007-05-17T02:55:25-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,465, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

Storms are brutal...and yet over coffee thots are shared...with peacefulness prevailing

In the Dead Of Winter Aliveness To Life Is Found

2007-05-17T02:35:17-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 485, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

Remembering some of the frosty cold days of Winter...and coming into a warming Spring

MidNight Dawns

2007-05-16T16:19:26-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 0, In-Progress

MidNight can be the place of New Beginnings. Reaching a MidNight Season in Life and finding dawn, finding life renewal

Winter's Diamonds Are Tumbling

2007-05-16T10:43:23-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 161, Reviews: 2, In-Progress

Personal thots in the passage of Winter Season

The Spiced Rose Is In Bloom

2006-12-24T14:20:10-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 2, Complete

What was at one time considered to be the receiving of thorns turned out to be otherwise

Our Lives Are Like That Of A Quilt

2006-05-22T11:22:15-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 4, Complete

In quilting the layers are three...thusly so our lives.

Death Lingers On The TimeLine Of Life

2006-05-22T10:15:28-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 180, Reviews: 1, Complete

...Remembering loved ones passing as Memorial Weekend is upcoming...

Anchored

2006-05-17T09:58:13-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 188, Reviews: 4, Complete

In the midst of Life's swirling waters ,being enabled to hang on, to survive

The Zephyr Splendour Dry Docked

2006-04-11T17:30:43-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Young Adult
English, Rated: K
General/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 9,991, Reviews: 0, Complete

Continuation... The spiritual journey of The Maiden Fair while on High Seas as well as on Land...

The Foral Daisy

2006-03-11T10:55:21-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 309, Reviews: 3, Complete

He love me, he loves me not, he loves me...

And A Little Child Shall Lead Them

2006-03-01T11:21:15-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Religion
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,113, Reviews: 1, Complete

How it is that a Child leads his Mother to the knowledge of a Higher Power

Lions and Lambs

2006-02-28T08:21:22-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 3, Complete

Peaceful Gentle Tides or Prevailing Storms?

Xanadu I Wait For You…Come Hither… I Beseech You

2006-02-22T13:04:51-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 826, Reviews: 1, Complete

As a loved one has passed..Comfort there has been...In need of Xanadu's return...

Violets

2006-02-13T16:13:49-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 341, Reviews: 3, Complete

In the midst of Winter thots turn to the blooming of Springtime's violets of the woodlands.

What Is Our Lives?

2006-02-02T19:41:52-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 441, Reviews: 1, Complete

A balloon takes lofty flight...

Wet Sand and Seashells

2006-02-01T10:08:29-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 1, Complete

Coming to experience a Life of Overflowing..Ah, Sweet,,,The Water of Life!

Spirit on Wings of Seagulls

2006-02-01T09:38:39-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 1, Complete

Storm Clouds Gathering... Lightening Bolts Strike!

Acquiring To Release

2006-02-01T09:04:08-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 337, Reviews: 0, Complete

Some items when acquired we keep...and some things we release...

Keeper Of The Shadow

2006-01-30T09:00:17-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 6, Complete

This writing is a Mystery, said tongue in cheek...read it and discover why... smile

Cawm!

2006-01-28T12:34:25-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 581, Reviews: 0, Complete

...in other words, RESCUED! - (English/Hmong) Goes w/ Zephyr Story.. will "get it together" at some point. :)

Thanksgiving 2005 Aboard The Zephyr Splendour

2006-01-28T12:24:42-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Spiritual
English, Rated: K
General/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 835, Reviews: 1, Complete

English/Hmong - At Some point ALL Zephyr Stories combined...

Beach In Winter Time

2006-01-14T10:14:14-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 64, Reviews: 2, Complete

...awaiting Springtime by the frozen seashore...

A New Lease On Life

2006-01-11T14:47:58-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 137, Reviews: 2, Complete

...starting to Live again...

Traveling On A Pathway Deep Into The Darkest Night

2005-12-27T14:51:37-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Friendship
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 121, Reviews: 2, Complete

Journey oft times is through the dark and unknown,,,then a Friendship is offered...

The Zephyr SplendourThe Ship At High Seas

2005-12-25T12:31:03-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
General
English, Rated: T
Adventure/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 35,585, Reviews: 0, Complete

Should have reached Harbour Port in late Autumn...Will they make it in time for Christmas?

My Soul Misses Your Touch

2005-12-24T11:41:12-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 2, Complete

The years have rolled on...and so too our love that once was...so many the year that have rolled by...missing a love that once was

On The First Day By The Water's Edge

2005-11-25T16:12:17-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 482, Reviews: 2, Complete

I'm dreaming of a...day by the Water's Edge

Trumpet Floral Booms

2005-11-01T11:46:37-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 1, Complete

'Tis nature's mystery how the Humminbird chooses... and becomes Mmmmm sweet nectar satisfied...

Finding New Purpose

2005-10-25T16:29:56-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 2, Complete

Experiencing Springtime's Newness of Life in the midst of Autumn's Harvest and vice versa

Taking A Path Less Travelled

2005-10-17T11:31:13-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Supernatural
English, Rated: K+
Supernatural/Adventure
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,959, Reviews: 0, Complete

A Man of Mystery is found on cliff by a Lady in passing who is walking the shoreline. When all hope seems lost there is divine intervention.

The Zephyr Splendour

2005-10-07T10:31:17-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 12,579, Reviews: 0, Complete

The Captain Brave & True Rescues The Maiden Fair from a sure drowning. The Captain is Muirandrid Endomiel of FictionPress and hope you enjoy cross referencing for two of his stories you will find enclosed in this writing. This is a sailing venture we wrot

The Velvet Petals

2005-10-05T05:36:34-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Mystery
Chapters: 1, Words: 155, Reviews: 6, Complete

Throughout the Seasons...roses are given to bloom...Ahh such sweet a mystery

Our Souls Have Touched

2005-09-25T11:00:10-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Fantasy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 5, Complete

The Reality of Cyberspace Friendships

Coffee At Midnight

2005-09-17T12:09:46-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
General
English, Rated: K
Adventure/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 10, Complete

drinking coffee...alone...awaiting dawn - (Revised based on a review)

Meeting Over Drinks

2005-09-16T17:54:34-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Friendship
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 4, Complete

...sharing in conversation...

The Other Side Of The Stained Glass Windows

2005-09-14T10:14:24-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 324, Reviews: 9, Complete

...not forgetting there are two sides to a stained glass window...

Soaring!

2005-09-14T07:47:16-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 6, Complete

As a Sons finds new independance...so too does a Mother.

Grieving a Loved One before they have died

2005-09-13T09:51:58-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 6, Complete

As a Mother is in hospice care a Daughter grieves

Death it comes so suddenly

2005-09-11T07:21:44-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 5, Complete

Remembering the best of lives snuffed out and remembering too 911/New York Trade Center

Let's Be Real Here

2005-09-11T07:08:10-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 569, Reviews: 1, Complete

Getting Real. EACH is important, just NOT the center of the universe...

The Spiced Rose

2005-09-11T06:43:02-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Love
English, Rated: K+
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 202, Reviews: 2, Complete

Memory of a love that once was..the thorns making for the spice

As One Once So Young

2005-09-10T18:59:40-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 259, Reviews: 3, Complete

In memory of childhood passing and thots of the song, "Those Were The Days My Friend."

Placed In The Morgue

2005-09-06T13:49:57-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 13, Reviews: 1, Complete

thots that came as Oprah on T.V./in New Orleans

Graffiti

2005-09-06T10:09:33-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 233, Reviews: 2, Complete

...differing ways of preceiving graffiti

The Call

2005-09-06T09:55:45-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
General
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 581, Reviews: 0, Complete

Coming to terms as another has taken their life.

With Key In Hand

2005-09-06T09:37:11-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Family
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 341, Reviews: 1, Complete

...facing the reality that one on the other side of the door may have died

Maddening Echoes

2005-09-03T16:40:58-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 2, Complete

...tranquility found

Seashells Seagulls and Shoreline

2005-09-03T16:07:31-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 3, Complete

Desiring to return to the pleasures of the sea

ALIVE AND WELL

2005-09-03T15:34:14-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 337, Reviews: 4, Complete

Remembering to give Praise as News of one of Hurricane Katrina has reached place of safety

NEW ORLEANS IN FLOOD

2005-08-30T15:24:47-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K
Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 218, Reviews: 4, Complete

Taking some moments to pray

BLUE ANGEL

2005-08-27T16:23:03-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Haiku
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 5, Complete

When going through a struggle great, a Blue Angel enters.

From Seashore to Mountain Heights

2005-08-26T10:12:02-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 868, Reviews: 2, Complete

Walking the vastness of the seashore and continuing on hiking till at last coming to the mountain heights...and a bit of a humerous surprise awaits!

It Is Sweet Early Morning

2005-08-26T09:21:00-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 121, Reviews: 2, Complete

At a new dawning mercies are found

DEATH

2005-08-26T08:41:14-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 445, Reviews: 5, Complete

Taking the first letter of each paragraph contained one finds D.E.A.T.H. spelled and so too finding meaning in death and dying contained.

Venturing Forth On A Trail Unseen

2005-08-26T08:30:48-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 115, Reviews: 1, Complete

The scent of Old Growth Forests

Gonna Take The Least

2005-08-26T08:14:29-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Nature
English, Rated: K
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 2, Complete

Traveling through woodlands and hills , taking the least, searching...

A Life Worth Living

2005-08-26T08:05:07-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 5, Complete

In the coming to terms of knowing ones own values, the road is not always easy for the road may lead one through a hell. -Taking the Time to Be Real-

Sustenance: What is it you are feeding on?

2005-08-25T17:46:22-08:00

Author: Maisha Mafuriko
Life
English, Rated: K+
Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 197, Reviews: 1, Complete

Some when they enter our lives leave us so malnourished in our spirit while others uplift us and give to us a joy that uplifts and enriches our lives. No longer hungering for filled to overflowing