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Unmasked

2008-12-14T01:38:15-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Sometimes the truth is difficult to accept, but we must.

Sweet

2008-12-14T01:36:49-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Sensual imagery, healing love

When You See Me

2008-12-14T01:33:47-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 36, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

I hand-wrote this with my left non-dominant hand. It's short and meaningful, like a haiku but not.

The Falcon

2008-12-14T01:31:49-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Grand, dynamic imagery. An accidental sonnet: I didn't realize it was a sonnet until I was finished writing it. And yet when I TRY writing a sonnet...

Cavern

2008-12-14T01:29:36-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: In-Progress

Meditative mental imagery.

The Godly Number

2008-12-14T01:26:28-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 163, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Math poetry by someone who isn't so great at math. But if God can show up in a Trig assignment, who's to question it?

Oh What Am I To Do With My Heart

2008-12-14T01:23:27-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Angst! Yummy yummy angst.

Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me

2008-12-14T01:21:16-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: War
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

Guess what this is referring to! Hint: it was a horrible thing that never should have happened.

The Question

2008-12-14T01:01:35-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 560, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

A girl deliberates over whether to call a guy she likes. Very short, inspired by real life.

A Housebuilder and a Homemaker

2008-12-14T00:54:12-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Romance
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 907, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

A man visits his former lover after fifteen years, and finds that her life has taken a much different direction than his. I fear the point might be a little too subtle, so I might rewrite it. Inspired by the folksong "The House Carpenter".

Langue de Boeuf

2008-12-14T00:48:47-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Humor
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 638, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-14-08, Published: 12-14-08
Status: Complete

A woman attempts to prepare a fancy dish for her future in-laws, but finds herself in over her head. Very light!

Handling a Snake

2008-03-31T20:23:56-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 59, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-31-08, Published: 3-31-08
Status: Complete

This is not about a snake. The snake just reminded me of what it really is about. Big guess what that is.

Poetry

2008-03-31T20:21:55-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-31-08, Published: 3-31-08
Status: Complete

Sometimes it is frustrating to be a poet who can't write.

Flower Child's Flight

2008-03-31T20:16:57-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-31-08, Published: 3-31-08
Status: Complete

Is it just me, or is my poetry getting more incomprehensible? I think it is. This has a rhyme scheme. It's just hidden.

Prayer

2008-03-31T20:12:27-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 0 Updated: 3-31-08, Published: 3-31-08
Status: Complete

This is what I pray for.

Eyes Black Holes

2007-12-20T21:37:54-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 0 Updated: 12-20-07, Published: 12-20-07
Status: Complete

This started out about a specific person, but then I realized it could apply to a lot of people. It's an intensity of feeling that can be overwhelming.

Apocalyptic

2007-12-20T21:34:57-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-20-07, Published: 12-20-07
Status: Complete

This is one of my poems with no intended meaning. Just imagery.

fellow traveller

2007-10-09T18:16:30-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 98, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

Happy Anniversary Sputnik

wild calls

2007-10-09T18:15:48-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 76, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

Just your average spiritual euphoria

looking back at me

2007-10-09T18:14:32-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 53, Reviews: 1 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

A nice love one

boom

2007-10-09T18:13:31-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

One of life's cycles: buildup and breakdown

with a headache

2007-10-09T18:12:25-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

This would be the result of waiting an hour in the cold and dark at a bus stop, with a headache to boot. That's why it's so drippingly soaked in angst.

almostsymphonies

2007-10-09T18:08:31-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

Another incomprehensible one. Sorry. This one reminds me of Nor Must I.

one is two

2007-10-09T18:00:56-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

The Promenade at Lakewood Park, after sundown.

on the use of whom

2007-10-09T17:59:31-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-9-07, Published: 10-9-07
Status: Complete

I'm one of those who will correct your grammar while you're speaking. I'm trying to kick the habit.

invisible

2007-08-25T16:12:09-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-25-07, Published: 8-25-07
Status: Complete

Finally learned how to separate stanzas! This is one of my favorite new ones I like the mystical, mysterious feel.

midnights past

2007-08-25T16:10:45-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-25-07, Published: 8-25-07
Status: Complete

ever trust and doubt at the same time?

so perceptive

2007-08-17T20:54:41-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 59, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

After a friend was surprised and incredulous to discover an important aspect of my past, when she thought she knew me so well.

nor must I

2007-08-17T20:52:32-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

I wrote this after watching the first few episodes of Heroes on DVD, after my friends had inundated me with recommendations for months.

scold

2007-08-17T20:50:54-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 12, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

One of my shortest. I think this has more layers of irony than it has lines.

closer to death

2007-08-17T20:49:24-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

Life is short. Time is frightening. But man, is it fun.

worthy

2007-08-17T20:45:28-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

For last year's fall semester, I was accustomed to sharing part of my commute with a friend. That day, he caught a different bus. And he called me on my cell phone when his bus passed mine.

nightingale

2007-08-17T20:43:29-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

unconditional love will do that to a person

my wanting

2007-08-17T20:42:45-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

longdistance love

sleeping through

2007-08-17T20:37:32-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 0 Updated: 8-17-07, Published: 8-17-07
Status: Complete

During a camping trip, I was once the first person in the campground to wake up.

Soon

2007-07-30T14:41:15-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 79, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-30-07, Published: 7-30-07
Status: Complete

a found poem

Lost

2007-05-30T17:46:57-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

I know the pattern breaks at the end. I don't care.

Knights and Knaves

2007-05-30T17:43:24-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Fantasy
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-30-07, Published: 5-30-07
Status: Complete

Been experimenting with medieval fantasy themes.

Forget

2007-05-02T17:53:48-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-2-07, Published: 5-2-07
Status: Complete

This is one of the several that even I don't understand. I think I like those ones best.

Stop

2007-05-02T17:52:13-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 0 Updated: 5-2-07, Published: 5-2-07
Status: Complete

Warning: swear word ahead

First

2007-05-02T17:47:44-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 60, Reviews: 0 Updated: 5-2-07, Published: 5-2-07
Status: Complete

I handwrote this months ago, didn't think much of it, and forgot about it until recently. It took hours searching through papers to find it again.

Shared

2007-05-02T17:45:17-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 41, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-2-07, Published: 5-2-07
Status: Complete

this poem is so saccharine I'm surprised I was the one to write it, but I like the format.

A Wish and a Star

2007-01-12T17:24:01-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 169, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-12-07, Published: 1-12-07
Status: Complete

I'd say read Hands first, but it's your choice. This poem contains allusions to it, and is similar in structure.

We Are

2006-10-29T18:55:06-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-29-06, Published: 10-29-06
Status: Complete

I imagine this read by three women, trading off lines and reading select lines in unison. Maybe someday I could arange that.

Storytellers

2006-08-28T20:32:55-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-28-06, Published: 8-28-06
Status: Complete

A poem inspired by another, more famous one. I think I got an original take on it though.

Confessions

2006-08-28T19:00:47-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 241, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-28-06, Published: 8-28-06
Status: Complete

Probably my favorite of my poems at the moment. Let me know if you get any meaning out of it.

Wait

2006-06-20T23:17:31-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 46, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-20-06, Published: 6-20-06
Status: Complete

The first poem written for my one poem per day program, and the only one I have memorized.

When I stop hiding from you

2006-06-20T23:15:11-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-20-06, Published: 6-20-06
Status: Complete

excuse the dialect. It's how I speak in my head sometimes.

Write Forever Love

2006-06-20T23:12:47-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-20-06, Published: 6-20-06
Status: Complete

Wrote this while looking out at the lake.

Aaron Gladfield's Funeral

2006-04-02T12:36:10-08:00

Author: SR Castells
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,895, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-2-06, Published: 4-2-06
Status: Complete

In the afterlife, funerals are treated as a form of entertainment; but they serve an important purpose for both the living and the dead. Not specific to any religion.