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hindered we are the common humanity

2003-04-24T19:41:15-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 405, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-24-03, Published: 4-24-03
Status: Complete

I was made to travel new roads that lead to old towns none of these towns being Rome. r/r please

Parthian Shots

2003-04-18T15:03:09-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 2, Words: 469, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-18-03, Published: 4-18-03
Status: Complete

and once, perhaps, they were young as well. A collection of poems.

Tiffany in the hallways, rubbing her eyes

2003-04-18T14:48:53-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 463, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-18-03, Published: 4-18-03
Status: Complete

she did not take her love, and she did not leave it. (You are very much like me./I would not be surprised if sometime later.../I will love you.) r/r, please?

Response to Allen Ginsberg

2003-04-14T19:25:29-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 246, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-14-03, Published: 4-14-03
Status: Complete

Ginsberg once asked, "What are you about, or are you a person with 10 fingers and 2 eyes?"

sonata for a madame claret

2003-04-07T22:32:54-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 255, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-7-03, Published: 4-7-03
Status: Complete

Something about you must change/now or in some unspeakably close time... it is spring, no longer winter, not yet summer. r/r, please

a study of a school day, three quarters long

2003-04-07T00:21:15-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 395, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-7-03, Published: 4-7-03
Status: Complete

It is another thing entirely, though... /I am not billy saying anyone's name. Inspired by Rose of Dresden's "School Day".

theological sentimentalities

2003-03-19T21:59:46-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 371, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-19-03, Published: 3-19-03
Status: Complete

Intuition, like desperation, is formless and graceless and boldly depressing/in its orgy of combinatorics and asymptotic probabilities. of astronautical subjects and perceived redeeming attributes.

he traces his lineage through grammatical mastery

2003-03-19T21:56:55-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 368, Reviews: 2 Updated: 3-19-03, Published: 3-19-03
Status: Complete

i could be shakespeare for you if i wanted to, or in the reversal of the usual upstart, if you wanted me to,/ but as it so turns out... a meandering route through two people. r/r, please. thank you!

the love of kings

2003-02-24T14:49:58-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 502, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-24-03, Published: 2-24-03
Status: Complete

PG for the content, a bit. About Richard the Lionheart and Philip August, also known as Philip II, king of France. I'm sure some of you have got to know what I'm talking about here. [But you, tender dear gray-haired Richard, you who are not Genghis Khan b

pedagogic virtues

2003-02-23T10:09:40-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 200, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-23-03, Published: 2-23-03
Status: Complete

of the death of winter, spring, and ordinary conversations. {for reget is a solemn and dwarfed thing, teetering at the edge of noncompliance} r/r, please? Thank you!

The 10th Crusade: the Skeptic's Crusade

2003-02-23T10:08:38-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 413, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-23-03, Published: 2-23-03
Status: Complete

of war, polite war, Lady Macbeth, and PowerPoint presentations. A sort of denuciation, one might say, all though I didn't mean for it to be. ^-^ r/r, please? Thank you!

occasionally, driving schoolbuses

2003-02-22T13:27:09-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 188, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-22-03, Published: 2-22-03
Status: Complete

They hand us back our belongings when,/smiling, we forget to stop magic eight balls/and instead shoot bullets that say/"yes" or maybe "no", "next time", "maybe", "confusion"... r/r, please. Thank you!

Breakfast of Champions

2003-02-21T14:33:43-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 10, Words: 2,583, Reviews: 11 Updated: 2-21-03, Published: 2-21-03
Status: Complete

A collection of poems. on occasion they are students/ on occasion they are not/ on occasion they are separate, but mostly they are just human. r/r, please. Thank you.

Ripples from Raindrops: Charlie

2003-02-21T14:27:36-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 356, Reviews: 1 Updated: 2-21-03, Published: 2-21-03
Status: Complete

of Bond girls, chalkboards, martinis, picture frames, and ancient buried history. r/r, please. Thank you.

Conversing through blinking telephone lights

2003-02-19T13:40:59-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 240, Reviews: 4 Updated: 2-19-03, Published: 2-19-03
Status: Complete

of scapegoats, hostile pasts, and a faint whiff of paranoia. Read and review, please? Thanks!

Eleven Things To Judge A Life On

2003-02-04T23:05:04-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 206, Reviews: 4 Updated: 2-4-03, Published: 2-4-03
Status: Complete

A very badly done tribute to Rose of Dresdon. A list poem, but only in the strictest sense. Of blindness, saviors, eggs, and happy endings. Don't take me seriously.

the present day circe: winteredgingonspring

2003-02-04T22:09:02-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 3 Updated: 2-4-03, Published: 2-4-03
Status: Complete

rather short, but skirts around the point, if there even is a point. of tea ceremonies, forgotten names. r/r, if it so pleases you.

He is not Algernon, nor ever will be

2003-02-03T16:06:05-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 275, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-3-03, Published: 2-3-03
Status: Complete

Of hemlock, Socrates, knowledge, stupidity. From the catacombs of margins (where I used to doodle Styrofoam coca-cola cups)/he tells the teacher we can't maneuver the numbers back...

called to frankincense

2003-01-30T14:25:51-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-30-03, Published: 1-30-03
Status: Complete

of travelling, of forgetting, of nonchalance, of lies, of warmth. r/r please?

autumnal cannibalism, dali explains

2003-01-30T14:24:29-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 180, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-30-03, Published: 1-30-03
Status: Complete

of cafeterias, food, americanism, fashion, and estrangement. Their pants fall down below their waistlines./If they do not trip over their feet and hemlines/when they walk...

Special Communiqués

2003-01-29T17:33:12-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-29-03, Published: 1-29-03
Status: Complete

of newspapers, sidewalks, wet shoes, and blonds. The military stripes on the stairs/don't do anything to dry our shoes...

pablo picassohis ghost, anyway

2003-01-29T17:32:08-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-29-03, Published: 1-29-03
Status: Complete

of art, of forgotten art, of imitation. You are the 5 year/old realizing that trees are not lollipops...

hiding from odysseus, in between the pages

2003-01-29T17:31:10-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 188, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-29-03, Published: 1-29-03
Status: Complete

of classrooms like museums, of conversation, of calculators, of silence, of winter. I miss the unfettered impoliteness/of brazen summers...

fortune cookies

2003-01-29T17:30:05-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 229, Reviews: 3 Updated: 1-29-03, Published: 1-29-03
Status: Complete

of telling, of murder by knowing, of familiarty, of disgust. You will hate me very much, but/not as much as I will hate you when I finally realize,/that I am afraid of you.

a man with an axis of evil

2003-01-29T17:29:10-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-29-03, Published: 1-29-03
Status: Complete

of freedom, of america, but mostly of an attempt at cynicism. freedom will order vodka/will be baffled in art museums...

a sliver for you not there

2003-01-28T13:53:30-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 628, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-28-03, Published: 1-28-03
Status: Complete

on buses, engels, marx, blowtorches, and lucky bamboo shoots. Not all in that order, of course. [But it is a testament to the pillar of/familiarity]

turnaround

2002-08-13T22:39:30-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-13-02, Published: 8-13-02
Status: Complete

Why I really don't make a good sports fan. On soccer plays, or anyway, what an observor remembers of a soccer play.

Observations of Khaki Curtains

2002-08-13T22:37:26-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 171, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-13-02, Published: 8-13-02
Status: Complete

A list poem, of 10 different thoughts when sitting through a lecture. Dead tulip petals in the air/heated stone and sweat./Tumbled in car exhaust.

Going Home To Somewhere I've Never Been

2002-08-13T22:34:29-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-13-02, Published: 8-13-02
Status: Complete

A short poem on Chicago. Chicago,/of signs and police crowds/and mobs and malls/and places I have never been and will never go to

Question For the Virgin Lovers

2002-07-21T17:39:02-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 165, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-21-02, Published: 7-21-02
Status: Complete

A poem half inspired by those magnetic poetry sets. Brave Caesar, he is bruised & discontent./Merchant, you see mercy just like him./Lend your heart,/O merchant, toil not in vanity's field.

Airborne

2002-06-04T09:54:29-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 58, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-4-02, Published: 6-4-02
Status: Complete

Inspired by a soccer game I watched. Or part of a game I watched, anyway. lemonade of dandelions/that flies drink from, drink like rice wine.

Demons Perched On The Picket Fence

2002-06-04T09:53:42-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 137, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-4-02, Published: 6-4-02
Status: Complete

Not about religion, let me get that off of my chest. And we crash into ourselves eventually anyway/but it shouldn't mean we need to give ourselves away/to second chances no one believes in.

parachutes

2002-06-04T09:52:53-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 228, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-4-02, Published: 6-4-02
Status: Complete

A poem inspired by a day spent dancing. we kicked out the master/so the mice can play/ can play/can play/watch the blind mice dance. Rather short.

piano music on a slower day

2002-06-04T09:51:30-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 47, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-4-02, Published: 6-4-02
Status: Complete

An extremely short poem. There is a court jester laughing somewhere/but the courtesan cries./Yes, she cries. Review, please? Thank you!

Evergreens Laugh At Us

2002-06-04T09:50:42-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-4-02, Published: 6-4-02
Status: Complete

Maybe it was the flurry of/dancing dresses or the ribbons and chiffon wind/or maybe/the tapping shoes and broken sunglasses. Read and review?

Ripples from Raindrops: Patrick

2002-05-28T15:51:13-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 161, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-28-02, Published: 5-28-02
Status: Complete

The name poems are revived! Tiptoeing through the library and he is illuminated by the back light/hiding shadows in more shadows and sometimes/I hate him more than he knows, arrogant with nothing more than/style and swiftly tilting waterfalls...

sulfur and other such tears

2002-05-21T16:58:17-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-21-02, Published: 5-21-02
Status: Complete

A poem loosely based off of an experience with model rockets. but he is watching in truth/the rocket ascending into billowed pillow clouds /and watching-/watching-himself go up in smokey heights.

electronica

2002-05-21T16:57:18-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-21-02, Published: 5-21-02
Status: Complete

A pantoum. The blinding smoke in the air/tastes of broken dreams and pain./Glitter and sweat in gentle glare/and he with nothing to lose nor gain.

with one hour left

2002-05-20T14:00:12-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 184, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-20-02, Published: 5-20-02
Status: Complete

yet another list poem. X. The converse of you teaching/me is not me teaching you but rather/you realizing I have/something to give. We learn.

Two Shadows on a May Afternoon

2002-05-20T13:56:19-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 284, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-20-02, Published: 5-20-02
Status: Complete

List poem. VI. I like scents and touches/but you prefer sights and sounds/so we can go traveling and/taste the world together instead.

him against the world

2002-05-20T13:55:33-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-20-02, Published: 5-20-02
Status: Complete

A little observation poem. Each human interaction only fuels his hunger more,/a hunger in his eyes like a blind man and color./Sometimes, I feel as if he could swallow us/whole.

Ripples from Raindrops: Yifan

2002-05-15T14:19:59-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 177, Reviews: 9 Updated: 5-15-02, Published: 5-15-02
Status: Complete

Rain washed pounded sidewalks smelling of mud and clay as she/encloses herself in angel feathers, silken laughter/tumbled in birdsong. The name poems continue.

Birdwatching and Other Wayward Realms

2002-05-11T16:19:38-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-11-02, Published: 5-11-02
Status: Complete

I pat down Indian spices/in the air in hopes the incense will catch flames. /So he is beautiful./It should not take my breath away.What would I not give to be like/Ophelia... More strange poetry.

Ripples from Raindrops: Jack

2002-05-08T13:49:12-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-8-02, Published: 5-8-02
Status: Complete

So the name poems continue. Heh heh heh. His coppertoned skin gleaming tarnished gold and his hair the same sunshine darkness./Kissing raindrops on lips accustomed to wheedle instead of whisper.

Ripples from Raindrops: Jeff

2002-05-07T13:43:51-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 231, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-7-02, Published: 5-7-02
Status: Complete

And observation of boys continue. Languidly we all smoke the ashes of his incarceration,/aware of the essence of him being slowly whispered away, like so many/candle wax tears dripping into a brass hand.

Ripples from Raindrops: Carlin

2002-05-06T13:46:22-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-6-02, Published: 5-6-02
Status: Complete

More observation of friends. This one is a poet herself, but mostly a musician. Subtle touches of forest green in otherwise black eyes, eyes that reflect/escapades of musical pegasuses aloft on wings spun from ivory/...with sea blue as her guide

a message for you

2002-05-04T17:59:28-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 576, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-4-02, Published: 5-4-02
Status: Complete

A somewhat morning after who-knows-what poem. Kinda surreal. loneliness a leaf falls/and you are left with a telephone and a crumpled piece of paper/that simply parrots what you already know.

Ripples from Raindrops: Kevin

2002-05-04T14:00:25-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-4-02, Published: 5-4-02
Status: Complete

Another name poem. Eh, it's odd. As always. Read and review? I drop orchids/into his newly uncovered hands and forget to remember./Nodding off to lyrical piano music.

Ripples from Raindrops: Luke

2002-05-02T14:16:40-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 76, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-2-02, Published: 5-2-02
Status: Complete

An acrostic poem, more random observation. (actually, not that random) Once, I tried to scar his pristine outside. Do I regret?/No. But anger is not what I am aiming for.

Ripples from Raindrops: Joshua

2002-05-02T14:16:02-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-2-02, Published: 5-2-02
Status: Complete

An acrostic poem, more random observation. (actually, not that random) Just a moment ago,he brushed by in an/overcrowded current of students thatsuffocated us both in ruined eddies of movements.

him and all his glory

2002-05-01T13:53:20-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 194, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-1-02, Published: 5-1-02
Status: Complete

Another observation of a boy who is a rather pretty skater. VIII. He slips the earphones over his head and/closes his eyes, sleeping to the music of metal guitars/and the ink on his skin seeps into his blood.

Monarch Butterflies Migrating

2002-04-29T16:36:44-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 233, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-29-02, Published: 4-29-02
Status: Complete

The rest of the title should be: (or, an observation of his hair). This one is... odd. That's about it. It hides our dirtiness./To see his pale cloudy pink skin/(or is it his sin? I do not know)/flush cold against/deathly all forgiving black.

you could jump off a cliff

2002-04-29T16:21:32-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 179, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-29-02, Published: 4-29-02
Status: Complete

Random observation on another boy in English class. Please enjoy. He dwells in frozen landscapes with winter air/and twin scythes on his feet, slipping sliver-like through a hill of snow...

Improvisation with Composers: W. A. Mozart

2002-04-28T10:15:28-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 204, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-28-02, Published: 4-28-02
Status: Complete

Stupid title restrictions. Agh! Anyway, a poem on Mozart, as the title says. The world that owns Mozart/from birth of talent drove him/beautifully, fantastically, insane...

he told me the candlelight was a firefly

2002-04-27T17:38:03-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 381, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-27-02, Published: 4-27-02
Status: Complete

Another written for a boy. Simply put, this one is very strange. But let us instead look at him. He is small,/but not really small. A feeling of smallness,/(not words, but words, but syllables?)/like a whiff of rain/in the autumn air.

he tells me thoughts in monochrome

2002-04-26T05:10:11-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 306, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-26-02, Published: 4-26-02
Status: Complete

And yet another on a guy. Hooray for random observation. There's a lot of things he doesn't know/that I can tell him./Not that he would listen if I did./But some things you have to find out on your own./Life is one of them.

It's not apathy; we're just oblivious

2002-04-25T17:40:52-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 250, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-25-02, Published: 4-25-02
Status: Complete

A lot of the time,/we do things/we know we'll regret later/and we've never really apologized./The "I'm sorry" is irrelevant to any conversation we may have/And none of us would mean it either.For a friend who I take for granted alot. A bitter poem.

Improvisation with Composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven

2002-04-24T17:08:05-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 196, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-24-02, Published: 4-24-02
Status: Complete

A poem about how Beethoven is akin to hickory nuts. In the background, Beethoven./Exactly so./Smoky and sweet with a trace of bitterness./The nut like Beethoven,/or Beethoven like the nut?

he told me he wanted to be an astronaut

2002-04-24T17:06:39-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 224, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-24-02, Published: 4-24-02
Status: Complete

The reason I am back/to writing about him, he who wants to reach the sky,/is simply this:/He is of a different mold. A little poem about a boy in our English class who has an ongoing love affair with space.

A Correspondence with New York

2002-04-21T22:26:26-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 16, Words: 1,910, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-21-02, Published: 4-13-02
Status: Complete

A little collection of poems about New York. I've always loved the city, and I hope these do at least some justice. Reviews please? Thanks! **COMPLETE: 1-16**

Year-round: A Collection Of Month Poems

2002-04-21T22:15:42-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,263, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-21-02, Published: 4-21-02
Status: Complete

January through December, with a short epilouge dedicated to all readers of poetry. Strange enough so that it's different. I'm sure everyone can find at least one that they like. Read? Thank you!

The Graph of His Face in Quadrant III

2002-04-13T12:07:38-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 134, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-13-02, Published: 4-13-02
Status: Complete

Written during math class, when watching someone particularly good at math listen to the lecture. It's rather odd, I think. Read and Review? You,/whose eyes watch the parabola of fluorescent light...

oh.war.

2002-04-13T12:06:14-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 137, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-13-02, Published: 4-13-02
Status: Complete

A tribute to veternans of war everywhere, even if it's not all that grand. Where blood runs into camomile tea,/war meets peace in a clash of liquids./The dusty air/inhaled through his lungs.

if then i am only his effect (and he the cause)

2002-04-13T12:05:07-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 412, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-13-02, Published: 4-13-02
Status: Complete

My second collection of five poems, all based on guys that I know. The darkness of the chaotic laser tag game./In that few seconds of close contact,/he and I were strangers who knew each other.

if then i am his observer (a stranger)

2002-04-10T15:00:53-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 285, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-10-02, Published: 4-10-02
Status: Complete

Five poems clumped together. Written about 5 random boys in our english class. I kinda like these, actually. His fingers pressed against his head./Restless movement./Unaware that I was watching him./What, then, is he aware of?

Ten Views From Outside a Person

2002-04-10T14:59:19-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-10-02, Published: 4-10-02
Status: Complete

Inspired by a poem written by Newkirk's Heroes, Eight Views On The Road Home. a small group of observation poems, very random.

Cascades, Or So It Feels Like

2002-04-10T14:55:02-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 170, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-10-02, Published: 4-10-02
Status: Complete

Not a love poem, deals with the relative he. About losing yourself and someone else to grayness. and I know,/somewhere, among the masses of red and gold,/he, a little patch of darkness,/is still wearing his shadow badges.

Unable To Stop The Bloom of Roses

2002-04-09T16:42:23-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-9-02, Published: 4-9-02
Status: Complete

A rather dark-hearted look at Spring, I suppose. Spring, the lunatic she is,/draws designs with her fingernail across the hills/From the cuts emerges the lush blood of nature/all flowers and grass/She paints the sky a light blue and uses crayons to dot co

When Sitting in School During Chinese New Year

2002-04-09T16:40:27-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 219, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-9-02, Published: 4-9-02
Status: Complete

The title is not completely what the poem is about, actually. An exploration of how the younger generation feels about the older. living under the mixed shadow/light of America and China/Too American to be in China/Too Chinese to be in America...

Conspiracy at 3 in the Morning

2002-04-05T20:02:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 343, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

time stretches itself and takes a yawn/having caught its 40 winks in the little escape marked Prozac./And as dawn starts to pry apart the skys with bloody fingernails/I wake up to find that I am still/an empty vessel chasing a ship into the distance.

a neon sign flashing electric blue

2002-04-05T12:38:15-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 234, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

Losing yourself in a city of neon lights. And sometimes/when I cannot sleep because some prowling cat of a nightmare/is curled up on my chest/...I watch instead the lights/in this city

Incense: A Haiku Story

2002-04-05T04:46:22-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

A small collection of haikus that tell a story. Men act out their fate./Men tremble on a war stage./Men bleed their tears dry.

Catching Snowflakes On Winter's Palm

2002-04-05T04:44:26-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 129, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

Perhaps,/ One could see wings/Tiny feathery things/Pale dusty butterflies

Galahad

2002-04-05T04:43:12-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 226, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

My hero is Darwin/ Who, against the crush of popular belief, announced his idea/ And, unapologetic, spat in the faces of skeptics/ Who lurks in some dusty church, reciting his doctrine/ “Unyielding, unyielding, unyielding.”

Fragility

2002-04-05T04:41:45-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-5-02, Published: 4-5-02
Status: Complete

Enclosed in his sterile room,/ His eyes are clouded with smoky blankness/ And pale skin is kissed by the shuddering strain of loneliness

Surrealism

2002-04-02T06:51:01-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 197, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-2-02, Published: 4-2-02
Status: Complete

The escaping cherubs sport plastic harps/ and play an oft-repeated tune./As she wakes she hears the dying concert,/ even with the lead singer of some nameless band/ shouting hoarse confessions in her ear.

none of us cared (except to survive)

2002-02-28T14:14:16-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 6 Updated: 2-28-02, Published: 2-28-02
Status: Complete

Me/ with my indifferent shrugs/ filling my hands with the cold of winter/ cocooning myself in a sheath of silence/ sealed with frozen blades.

Faith

2002-02-25T19:32:47-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 73, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-25-02, Published: 2-25-02
Status: Complete

Just a little series of haikus on faith (not quite religion, just plain optimistic Asian faith).

Sometimes You Dream Standing Up

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

A slightly, I dunno, maybe darker? poem which is very incoherent and probably extremely pointless Oh well. The floor beneath/ it thuds with the distant rumble of a/ train...

The Definition of Self-Illusion

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 71, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

Once again, slightly dark. It was originally about the in crowd and the out crowd. Hypocrisy is outdated/ The claim they're not hypocritical/A lot of factors come into play/ We grant them some breathing room...

Seperation in 3

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 88, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

Yes, I am actually writing alot! Anyway, a slightly strange poem, kinda schizo. That's okay. Tell me/ What people look for beauty in ugliness./The homeless who wander/ perhaps they know the pleasure of life./ I and I exploring myself...

The Land of the Golden Mountain

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 1 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

A poem inspired by the Chinese miners and Laurence Yep. The fragrant scent/ of tea and sweat/clings to that photo/ (A flash of light/ that catches the moment/when he left they took that picture)

The Hanged Man

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 127, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

Tarot card name. One cuss word. A very strange poem, even for my standards. chorus of voices in/her his its your head/ Fight the demons/ (or are they angels)/ because they / speak the hidden labyrith of lies/ and sing the stupid song/ that repeats...

Playing With Kalediscopes

2002-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 154, Reviews: 2 Updated: 1-18-02, Published: 1-18-02
Status: Complete

Another extremely strange poem. Inspired by playing with Geometer's Sketchpad at school o_O. Yeah. Be scared. The flash of colors/ Did you know/ it looks like fireworks to the eye...

perhaps he sought relief (to keep himself sane)

2001-12-01T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 259, Reviews: 1 Updated: 12-1-01, Published: 12-1-01
Status: Complete

Also titled: The Wild and Distant Shore. Inspired by the music from the movie "The Piano." Silence/ and he is walking out on the beach/ He lets the gentle currents of moonlight fall across his features...

Kite

2001-10-30T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 40, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-30-01, Published: 10-30-01
Status: Complete

Just a short very SHORT one about a boy and his kite. REally short...

Intruder

2001-10-11T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 70, Reviews: 0 Updated: 10-11-01, Published: 10-11-01
Status: Complete

The sea/embraces the blue sky/stretches sapphire fingers to sweep the sand...

Soldier

2001-10-11T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 136, Reviews: 2 Updated: 10-11-01, Published: 10-11-01
Status: Complete

A young man stops by at a church and is approached by a priest.

Silence

2001-10-11T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 3 Updated: 10-11-01, Published: 10-11-01
Status: Complete

The sound of heart beat/Shuts out the ringing/His body shivers/With a million quivers/Each a fear/Each a hope/In the silence

The China Collection

2001-08-28T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 810, Reviews: 1 Updated: 8-28-01, Published: 8-28-01
Status: Complete

Just a random collection of poems I wrote in China...

Remember to Breathe

2001-06-19T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 241, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-19-01, Published: 6-19-01
Status: Complete

She smiles back at me/ Reaching her hand up to catch the water/ And tilting her face to see the raindrops/ Like diamonds fall down to earth with ethreal magnificence. A little poem about the rain and its effect on two people. Read the poem, and review

Dusty Blue

2001-06-13T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 130, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-13-01, Published: 6-13-01
Status: Complete

Sometimes/Nostalgia grips me so tightly/I can't breathe/and the scent stings like the smell of eucalyptus

Apology

2001-06-13T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-13-01, Published: 6-13-01
Status: Complete

Not at all what the title says. Sorta misjoined, but I like it anyway. Please review! But your words sound like rain/ like threads/ like glistening webs/ like diamonds

Solitude

2001-06-10T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-10-01, Published: 6-10-01
Status: Complete

Midnight/ Means I am out/ Alone

Circles of Fancy

2001-06-08T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 51, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-8-01, Published: 6-8-01
Status: Complete

To be care-free again/ Blowing dreams /Abandoning them/ When I didn’t believe anymore

Crack of Light

2001-06-08T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 16, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-8-01, Published: 6-8-01
Status: Complete

What is in integrity, honesty, justice, belief?

Fly

2001-06-06T00:00:00-08:00

Author: ShinigamiForever
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 557, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-6-01, Published: 6-6-01
Status: Complete

Really really really long poem. Actually, I wrote this poem originally in the shape of feathers and bubbles, but I can't do that here. Have fun! Reviews please!