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Realms of Incandescence

2010-07-01T06:42:43-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 2, Complete

Late April, we roam the forest of ourselves, floating like dandelions, drifting on the smoke of dreams. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

colorblind

2010-06-30T04:34:55-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Horror/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 0, Complete

losing his vision, he watches his palette shrink and feels himself going blind by degrees. part of june's creative odyssey.

the ache of youth

2010-06-30T04:30:20-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Haiku
English, Rated: T
Tragedy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 20, Reviews: 1, Complete

yearning for the forbidden. part of june's creative odyssey.

brine and beauty

2010-06-28T07:41:08-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 1, Complete

in the whorl of a nautilus, the ocean murmurs like a lover, seeping into your eardrums, flooding into your veins. part of june's creative odyssey.

the beast

2010-06-27T08:51:51-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 1, Complete

tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: born under a cursed star, she discovers that even beauty has thorns. part of june's creative odyssey.

Emerald City

2010-06-26T10:37:56-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Adventure/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 1, Complete

She teeters down technicolor side streets, a tornado whirling in her chest. Is it strange, to feel homesick for a place that is not your home? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

A Piece of the Continent

2010-06-25T07:42:28-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Life
English, Rated: T
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 96, Reviews: 1, Complete

His body has slept for fifty years deep beneath the hollow mountain, no longer asking for whom the bell tolls. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

the gloaming hour

2010-06-24T06:48:31-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 126, Reviews: 1, Complete

lips, drenched with want and wild roses, ask me to paint the dusk with words, and how can I refuse her? part of june's creative odyssey.

portrait of the artist, as a young girl

2010-06-22T21:26:39-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 0, Complete

woman cannot remake herself without suffering, for she is both the marble and the sculptor. part of june's creative odyssey.

New York City

2010-06-21T19:53:43-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
Angst/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 80, Reviews: 2, Complete

Paradise consumed by fire; what remains, except urban decay? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Goodbye

2010-06-20T22:33:48-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 29, Reviews: 0, Complete

You are afraid the undergrowth of your heart strangles every living thing. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Aubade

2010-06-20T01:37:51-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 1, Complete

While I sleep, you slip away, leaving sighs scattered in the corners of my room. But these words are proof, I did not dream you. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Laws of Attraction

2010-06-19T06:53:54-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 165, Reviews: 2, Complete

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Sylvia

2010-06-17T20:14:21-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Friendship/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 194, Reviews: 2, Complete

In those days, we were two mad girls, infatuated with death, and arrogant enough to assume we were the only ones trapped beneath the bell jar. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

College Roommates

2010-06-17T00:31:42-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Friendship
English, Rated: T
Friendship/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 168, Reviews: 2, Complete

Strangers meeting in a cinderblock cell, we unpack our boxes and neuroses side-by-side. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

the patron saint of wrath

2010-06-15T23:50:15-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Family
English, Rated: T
Family/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 78, Reviews: 1, Complete

here I sit, smoldering beneath june's blood moon, ranting at the sky; it listens to me better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.

Cirque de Moi

2010-06-15T12:38:30-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 286, Reviews: 2, Complete

Tonight, the sideshow takes center-stage, here in this hall of mirrors, squeezing my soul through a kaleidoscope. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Hook

2010-06-14T07:04:34-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Fantasy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 0, Complete

In Neverland, all the whirring, gold clocks have stopped but one. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

an open book

2010-06-13T03:40:20-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Friendship/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 3, Complete

your words, like splinters, lodge under my skin. part of june's creative odyssey.

according to the garden

2010-06-11T21:08:36-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
Family/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 2, Complete

rooted to the spot, my memory of you. part of june's creative odyssey.

Pinocchia

2010-06-10T21:00:52-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 43, Reviews: 1, Complete

Puppet girl, you're just waiting for your strings to be slashed. Tanka. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

translating the night

2010-06-09T20:04:01-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: K+
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 2, Complete

the rain is tapping a love letter on my tin roof. part of june's creative odyssey.

ordinary symphonies

2010-06-08T21:27:56-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 125, Reviews: 1, Complete

the soprano on the corner of m street huddles beneath the flickering spotlight as she sings the city to sleep. part of june's creative odyssey.

the summer of crows

2010-06-08T06:47:06-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Family
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 217, Reviews: 2, Complete

if a pacifist shoots himself alone in a forest, do the trees woodenly applaud? blackbirds mourn your brother better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.

On Leaving

2010-06-06T20:52:34-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Family
English, Rated: T
Family/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 301, Reviews: 1, Complete

History sleeps here, where the sofa cracks form a map of fault lines, sunken patterns telling the stories of why people leave. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

The Insomniac

2010-06-05T19:23:15-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Haiku
English, Rated: K
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 21, Reviews: 2, Complete

As the world sleeps, he learns to dream in another way. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

Requiem for a Muse

2010-06-04T11:48:07-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Poetry/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 171, Reviews: 0, Complete

Feverish and consumed by perfectionism, her voice vanishes from lack of use. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

After

2010-06-04T11:42:30-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Fantasy
English, Rated: T
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 0, Complete

Her suburban life, cottage-cramped, seems Grimmer than what Disney imagined. Time to break character. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.

the green lady

2010-06-04T11:37:28-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Haiku
English, Rated: T
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 29, Reviews: 4, Complete

she lingers in her underground garden, wondering if the government will prohibit color next. part of june's creative odyssey.

rites of mourning, songs of spring

2010-06-04T11:28:41-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 111, Reviews: 0, Complete

a mother mourning, and the earth no longer laughs in flowers. part of june's creative odyssey.

Ashes to Ashes

2010-03-30T13:58:34-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 169, Reviews: 1, Complete

Her ashen face unmasks her peasant heart, crumbling to cinders as she realizes the courtiers' prattle resembles the chitter-chatter of mice, but crueler. Finally off-hiatus.

twelve

2009-09-07T13:33:51-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 12, Words: 1,796, Reviews: 43, Complete

and with every frantic blink of the strobe light, my memory of you flickers and fades before me.

galileo's daughter

2008-10-14T21:08:17-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 5, Complete

I'm spinning out of orbit. it's midnight, and gravity is only a lunar dream.

painted midnight

2008-05-20T20:10:42-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Friendship
English, Rated: T
Angst/Hurt/Comfort
Chapters: 1, Words: 197, Reviews: 2, Complete

almost a villanelle: in the twilight of your soul, your secrets, like stars, are blurred and stolen. how they blind me at midnight.

geography of a heart

2008-05-18T20:54:17-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 88, Reviews: 3, Complete

unfamiliar terrain, this city I'm wandering in, where love is a drug peddled on every street corner, and the gates won't let me go.

wallflower

2008-05-18T17:17:09-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 123, Reviews: 5, Complete

she never quite caught the friday night fever.

prisms and prisons

2008-05-16T17:57:22-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 150, Reviews: 1, Complete

sometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.

the audacity of spring

2008-04-17T21:53:58-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Family
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 2, Complete

april 1st, the cruelest joke of all. how dare the earth be reborn while you are lying in a shell of dead wood! how can the seasons stomach it?

Eden

2008-03-21T20:55:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 99, Reviews: 8, Complete

In the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.

how i live now

2008-02-22T18:20:49-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 92, Reviews: 5, Complete

no longer counting sheep, this self-induced insomnia has me wondering about the purpose of my ever-dwindling slumber and where my dreams have gone.

Don't Listen

2008-02-15T20:11:52-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 422, Reviews: 8, Complete

Prose poem. Within these lines, the words scream to fill my silence, shriek with all I am not saying, all I never will.

These Orchards of Birth and Bone

2008-01-05T16:42:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 4, Complete

The fruits of their labor lie rotted at the base of each lightning struck tree. Peach sweet, never to blossom.

A Missive to the White House

2008-01-01T15:32:36-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Politics
English, Rated: T
General
Chapters: 1, Words: 233, Reviews: 4, Complete

Your lifeless appeal to the American people is a red, white, and blue rhetoric. Washington is rolling in his grave.

Pipe Dreams

2008-01-01T10:00:08-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Life
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 1, Complete

The letters assumed docile acceptance of the domestic symphony. But her dreams, grown from opium dens and in the Indian sun, are too big for chinaglazed Victorian ideals. She will not become another decoration in their beautifully empty homes.

Congratulations, Columbus

2007-12-31T20:02:59-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Politics
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 3, Complete

This is the New World holocaust we don't like to talk about, what conquerors, seeking gold and glory, carried across the Atlantic. The Nina brought disorganization. The Pinta, disease. And the Santa Maria, death to the native people. Our inheritance.

Star Show at the Cinema

2007-12-31T11:51:48-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 6, Complete

As you watch the meteors plummet across the screen, my gaze is locked on you like a star coming home.

seven ways to die

2007-12-23T13:59:32-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 3, Words: 394, Reviews: 15, In-Progress

sylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.

holiday on skid row

2007-12-19T18:24:48-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Family
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 2, Complete

christmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.

ember

2007-11-17T20:33:07-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 124, Reviews: 4, Complete

and it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark. I'm on fire almost, I'm burning, but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.

Epistle to the Victorians

2007-10-09T20:51:03-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 167, Reviews: 5, Complete

Woman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.

Vermilion

2007-09-02T11:01:12-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 148, Reviews: 10, Complete

Winter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.

bitter lullaby

2007-06-07T20:23:06-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Friendship
English, Rated: T
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 6, Complete

even nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.

Mellifluous

2007-06-02T19:45:58-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: M
General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 6, Complete

I am envious of your flute.

magnolias

2007-05-30T19:19:45-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Love
English, Rated: T
Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 5, Complete

like the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.

watercolor days

2007-05-30T18:26:03-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 9, Complete

watercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.

trainwreck

2007-05-30T18:07:42-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Religion
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 260, Reviews: 4, Complete

with the way man's been talking for centuries, you'd think the apocalypse was just around the corner. and who knows, maybe it is.

the year

2007-05-30T17:57:28-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Life
English, Rated: T
General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 512, Reviews: 2, Complete

oh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.

moon scream

2007-05-30T17:46:50-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 8, Complete

what have our footprints been, but scars?

letters from walden

2007-05-30T17:44:22-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Parody
Chapters: 1, Words: 117, Reviews: 3, Complete

even thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.

pandora's box

2007-05-30T17:37:54-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Religion
English, Rated: T
General/Fantasy
Chapters: 2, Words: 116, Reviews: 5, In-Progress

a series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.

epitaph

2007-05-30T17:30:09-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Nature
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 141, Reviews: 5, In-Progress

bury me only if you promise not to look for these bones. and no, anna, this is not a suicide note, in case you were wondering.

cocoon

2007-05-30T17:24:41-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 8, Complete

call me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.

cacophony

2007-05-30T17:15:19-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
Life
English, Rated: T
Angst/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 4, Complete

chopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.

beautiful insomniac

2007-05-30T17:13:06-08:00

Author: glimpses from an ivory tower
General
English, Rated: T
General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 141, Reviews: 6, Complete

oh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.