yodel a blue streak
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since: 11-18-01, id: 128394, Profile Updated: 11-01-12
country: USA
Author has written 200 stories for General, General, Nature, Family, Life, Haiku, Friendship, Religion, School, War, Politics, and Love.

I have a habit of using quotes as pen names; "yodel a blue streak" is from Frank Stanford's 15283-line epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You.

Some excerpts, also from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You:

really I think of simple things
of ordinary acts and nights
that take place in the desolate minds of the very common
words like water or a pile of branches
gestures with the rhythm of plankton
and the heartbeat of birds and hooves

I dress like the holy spirit and smell just as bad

I tarnish
the mirror with slang and redeal the cards
like a sonneteer of chalk and sapphires
I glow with the venom of the lover
moving forever and ever shall be without antidote
I am the fair lead of the air’s noose
I invade the gutter and the Louvre
I strike deep in the drunken paws I link naked
I atone for nothing but her pink plectrum the moon
I smile in the blackstrap syrup I blow like secret wind
it is simple as that
sexual and frank

O wreckage of milk and tiger lilies
O moon smooth as ever in the bull
the unworldly which is worldly and rain
the sadness habitual
I pass out in the wagon of cotton
I live for the day
with bruises in the lighthouse and the very scent of honey
steeped in blood

the bird of the dark
beloved of the machete
O assassinated leper wise liar
O remarkable friend of the empty
O church house of the elders of dusk
return where form is
in question like a kept woman
beyond now and ever
will be goodness
and mercy follows me like a mad dog

when I dream
Lord Byron is there he gets down and kisses my sore foot
and he really means it

only I grope along like a blue snake who can hear bells being forged

I was pillaged by ink and prepared to die.

a lion and lute I want to hear
the blues and ballads like two singers singing as one
I see everything out of perspective
for example the phoenix molting in my cave
I want things to be revealed so I can stop bleeding or bleed some more
I want to die like the flower in the west wind
I want to be a bird and a ship forever I want these chants to lead you out
of the darkness of the white water that runs between words
I want to tip the scales in the favor of the children of goodness
I want the knife to be an instrument of peace

a church house is rising in the delta
everyone and no one is building it
there is so much hammering at night the men work in the fields in the day
they are all anonymous
theirselves are spectacles like symbiotic nails and sorghum
it was long ago
they keep burning it down and they keep building it


1. Tightly Wound » reviews
I'm trying out different forms. These are triolets.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-11-11 - Published: 4-11-11
2. Relativity
This is a cento...sources include: Pablo Neruda, Stephen Dunn, Brian Turner, Rita Dove, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, Tom Crawford, Yehuda Amichai, Silvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Alicia Ostriker, Claire Bateman, Jane Kenyon, and Joanne Hotchkiss.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Published: 9-17-11
3. A Disturbance in Mirrors reviews
a cento using lines from Silvia Plath and Dylan Thomas.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-11-11 - Complete
4. wall of fog reviews
blank verse again. loosely based on a recent conversation, but mostly free writing.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-7-11 - Complete
5. Monologue for an Anorexic reviews
It's Ramadan, and I'm looking at two pictures.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-4-11 - Complete
6. A baby is not an answer reviews
for lack of a better title
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-29-11 - Complete
7. Mercy reviews
A miracle would ruin it.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-25-11 - Complete
8. Refracted reviews
blank verse
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-11 - Complete
9. Driveby reviews
writing exercise
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-5-11 - Complete
10. Ghost Gospel reviews
Brought on by the smell of shoe polish.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-13-10 - Complete
11. Because I Needed A Mentor reviews
Free writing.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 256 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-27-10 - Complete
12. I Owe That Man A Picnic reviews
Meet my imaginary friend.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 203 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-27-10 - Complete
13. On the long drive from Georgia to Virginia
...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 263 - Published: 11-27-10 - Complete
14. Like A Game But Not reviews
Distortion.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-27-10 - Complete
15. Debating Providence reviews
...the itinerary flies out the window
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-28-10 - Complete
16. Body of Thought reviews
expanding upon a fragment
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-17-10 - Complete
17. Narrative reviews
I wrote 20 stream of consciousness...sort of...poems in 2 days. Here are some of the better ones...formatting sucks, but whatever.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,396 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-4-10 - Complete
18. Kindred reviews
a meeting
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-29-10 - Complete
19. A Woman Had A Love Affair With Stones reviews
Again, strange.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-29-10 - Complete
20. In Passing reviews
walking by on my way to school.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-27-10 - Complete
21. To the Subconscious reviews
something I spoke in a dream.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-27-10 - Complete
22. Yeah reviews
Prompt: Write a 10 line poem in 10 minutes including the words cliff, whirl, cloud, voice, blackberry, needle, mother, lick, and an altered idiom or popular phrase.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-18-10 - Complete
23. Anticipating Daybreak reviews
Random haiku...first line just popped into my head.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-17-10 - Complete
24. Writing Exercise » reviews
Revisit a memory that has personal significance but do not tell why it is significant...11-17 lines, approx. the same length but not exactly; start with prose or free writing; don't try to rhyme or be particularly poetic...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 2 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-17-10
25. Hazards of Home reviews
It's hard to leave and hard to stay...collection of haiku stemming from my fear of the fear of rootlessness.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-15-10
26. Resolve reviews
glimpse of a garden
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete
27. Last night reviews
...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete
28. Epistemology for Dummies reviews
playing around with rhymes
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
29. Stultiloquy
some recycled stuff. dissatisfaction.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
30. Family Bonds reviews
desperation makes me hostile which reads as bitterness
Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 187 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
31. White Noise
insoluble silence
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
32. Return To Me, And I Will Return To You reviews
Again, the title's a quote attributed to God that I pulled from somewhere in the bible probably from the prophets ...confrontational narration.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
33. That You May See Your Wickedness reviews
The title's a line pulled from somewhere in the bible...I don't exactly recall which book, but it was one of those "thus says the Lord" passages...and I was feeling sardonic.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
34. Pilgrimage
scraps of religiosity
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
35. Ode to Job
Short. Basically me trying to convince myself I have a sense of humor.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Published: 6-14-10
36. After Morning Mass reviews
Another blah pantoum...they just come so naturally, sort of like skimming off the surface of an annoying thought...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
37. Hungover, I Seem to Remember
written as a parody of Millay's "Recuerdo"
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete
38. From A Dream reviews
So, I've been playing with pantoums and I woke up the other morning with this in my head...but it feels melodramatic or just...banal...to me...so feedback is appreciated.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-10 - Complete
39. Another Piece reviews
maybe part of my long working redouble...loosely based on a recent dream
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-12-09
40. Theory of Oral Excrement reviews
um...yeah. this would be embarrassing if it weren't shameless...and short.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-12-09 - Complete
41. Pastor Ray: An Introduction reviews
two linked sonnets, based on a conversation I had in August.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-3-09
42. Take a Stab reviews
…in which I indulge my sudden desire to write with a slight southern accent…and other nonsensical whims…
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 185 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-25-09 - Complete
43. Making Arrangments reviews
um, a quickie based on a definition for art I saw today which now I can't find to quote...it was something like: art— creation or arrangement of form, color, etc, which effects the sense of beauty...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-11-09 - Complete
44. The Wrong Burner reviews
I have no clue what I'm doing, most of the time.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-8-09 - Complete
45. Shut Up reviews
I'm trying to understand why giving isn't enough.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 343 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-30-09 - Complete
46. 140 Fragments reviews
disorganized snippets that never made it into a poem...sort of based on Tony Tost's 1001 Sentences...just...lazier...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,216 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-25-09 - Complete
47. Clotheslines reviews
I dunno. I think they're nifty...and airing dirty laundry gets such a bad rap...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-24-09 - Complete
48. Answers reviews
gum is a laxative
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-20-09 - Complete
49. Post Point reviews
unemployed
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-19-09 - Complete
50. Cavity reviews
The product of aimless sketching and tailored word vomit.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-4-09 - Complete
51. of a forgotten life reviews
echoes...home again home again
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-21-09 - Complete
52. Imperfect Idols reviews
it's so arbitrary, the line dividing the worshiped and the rejected
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-3-09 - Complete
53. Wondering about wonder reviews
yay! my first sestina! a 39 line poem, traditionally in iambic pentameter, with all lines ending with one of six words, set in a certain order. I chose: God, chance, love, broken, choice, poem ...sort of draws on shorter, recent poems of mine...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 272 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-27-09 - Complete
54. Soul Speak reviews
learning about totems
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-19-09 - Complete
55. You Mustn't Speak
Q&A with an epidemiologist on AIDS in 1980s New York...again, sketchy and horribly edited, but it's a start...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Published: 2-18-09 - Complete
56. Momentum
an inability to stay constant…sort of a jumbled reaction to a physics test, watching Oscar Wilde plays and Basquiat, reading Habakkuk and Whitman's Calamus, being a lousy student, why all that makes me angry, and why it doesn't...its all over the place
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Published: 2-13-09 - Complete
57. Damages reviews
drawing you is like drawing decay...I've been painting...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-11-09 - Complete
58. Riding an Elephant reviews
I feel the beauty of us in their bones…warning for weirdness…
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-9-09 - Complete
59. My Last Poem reviews
I keep writing short non-poems lately...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-8-09
60. little boy in a corner
everyday grotesques. no one ever looks.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: 2-6-09 - Complete
61. Invitation to Poetry
tiny. possibly an introduction.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Published: 2-4-09 - Complete
62. Of My Ego
Extremes everywhere and I take myself too seriously…OCD, narcissism, and a sore throat…philosophic blathering...personal rant…fun for the whole family…
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Published: 2-1-09 - Complete
63. Be Safe reviews
community service, my plans for this year
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-24-09 - Complete
64. Recipe for Irritability reviews
I really should have seen this coming.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-18-08 - Complete
65. End of Term
one way or another
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Published: 12-18-08 - Complete
66. Insomnia reviews
Aroint, aroint, you dastardly braggart!...ok, that has nothing to do with the poem except being in pentameter, but it was fun to write.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-16-08 - Complete
67. A serial negligence of the sun
dried up, waterproof, like a felt swan steering my way in a water of wombs and ashes" Pablo Neruda, from 'Walking Around'.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Published: 12-13-08 - Complete
68. Sonnet 3 reviews
I'm so tired of living with potheads
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-7-08 - Complete
69. Sonnet 2 reviews
beauty does not allow embarrassment
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-7-08 - Complete
70. 14 Hours of Sleep
tired
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Published: 10-10-08 - Complete
71. October
in the center of a giant triangle: conceptually, a mess.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Published: 10-8-08 - Complete
72. Meditation on Violence reviews
I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Psalm 77:3.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-11-08 - Complete
73. taking oaths reviews
I've been reading too much Norse mythology today. This is only temporarily complete...unfinished, as most of my poems on here are.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-14-08 - Complete
74. Reprisal reviews
from the pov of a völva...a germanic/norse priestess/witch ...not sure I like this, possibly incohesive & incomplete...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-14-08 - Complete
75. Terror born of Abyss reviews
...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-8-08 - Complete
76. Forgiveness reviews
we never say the words
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-1-08 - Complete
77. Girl with an Eggplant Tattoo reviews
on how to slaughter pigs
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-31-08 - Complete
78. Benediction reviews
Let the love of harlots be sanctified...a sonnet.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-30-08 - Complete
79. Still Life reviews
the art of holding on
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-27-08 - Complete
80. The red man and the face in the mountain
I've been thinking of all the bodies that could be
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Published: 7-26-08 - Complete
81. Recycling is Pretty Nice! reviews
a lesson in surrealism
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-26-08 - Complete
82. current events » reviews
tidbits of mood.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 4 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-25-08
83. Freshmen girls reviews
sometimes I hate...warning for profanity.
Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-19-08
84. maybe I miss you reviews
we don't know where to go from here.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-19-08
85. Low Sunday
I said I wasn't religious.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Published: 7-13-08 - Complete
86. is am not i reviews
I withdraw so I can pretend.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 4-30-08
87. Preserves in an Alabaster Jar reviews
...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Family/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-28-08 - Complete
88. Heap of Random Images
response to an assignment to write about place/environment.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Published: 4-28-08
89. Dear Veronica
I just thought you should know.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Published: 2-23-08 - Complete
90. Half of Whole
Canpásapa-wi, the month when chokecherries are ripe...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Published: 2-15-08 - Complete
91. Suicide Poets reviews
I read Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and I feel like I'm being smothered.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 230 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-13-08 - Complete
92. To be blunt: reviews
if you're weird and you know it, clap your hands.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-12-08 - Complete
93. Walk on reviews
I have discovered the limitations in telling people what they want to hear.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Horror/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 336 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-10-08 - Complete
94. double helix reviews
…we're both nitrogenous bases...
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-8-08
95. the politics of lilacs reviews
an actual nature haiku...go figure.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-8-08
96. Chinese New Year
he is as foreign to me as chinese new year.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Published: 2-7-08 - Complete
97. Estranged
your serrated stutter guts me
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Published: 2-7-08 - Complete
98. Cairn reviews
a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 183 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-6-08 - Complete
99. liberal arts reviews
who wants to be a dirty, stinky yet awkwardly intelligent hippie?...haiku about my college
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-3-08 - Complete
100. I wrote of horses
the inspiration behind the first poems I remember writing...I think I was 7 or 8.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Published: 2-2-08 - Complete
101. Jane draws herself reviews
internalization.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-2-08 - Complete
102. syphylis makes the whole world kin reviews
the artistry in communicable contempt...the title's a thomas wolfe quote.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-2-08 - Complete
103. i will be a story reviews
tell me i am like the sand...in progress.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 2-1-08
104. the ironies of language reviews
on a bus.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-1-08 - Complete
105. I am afraid of churches reviews
Another examination of my religious life.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 329 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-27-08 - Complete
106. Privilege reviews
um, couldn't get this out of my head for some reason, so...we were talking about human rights today, and activists, or lack thereof...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Humor/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-21-08
107. On the evolution of communication
A crosscultural, or any, conversation.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Published: 1-20-08
108. the resounding reviews
a poetry reading
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-4-08
109. Pablo Picasso said reviews
Women are either goddesses or doormats.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-14-07 - Complete
110. kinetics of self reviews
Shifting from neurosis to narcosis in an instant'. No kidding.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 271 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-20-07 - Complete
111. like citrus reviews
because I had to add something lighthearted to this group of uploads.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-3-07 - Complete
112. nocturnal reviews
I don't even know.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-3-07 - Complete
113. I told Dulia reviews
do yourself a favor...a tad profane.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 10-3-07 - Complete
114. i am not pretty and i do not understand Why reviews
Guard: [Life would have been so much easier for you all had it not been for Antigone. I love you.] Is that all?...Funny kind of letter.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-07 - Complete
115. my sister as myself reviews
[the smeared memory of his green canvas coat has stained the poplar floor.]
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-3-07 - Complete
116. Two Women reviews
of wreckage
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-6-07 - Complete
117. o apate, goddess of deceit reviews
a supplication
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-11-07 - Complete
118. jasper told a story
of four faces bearing blind witness
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Published: 5-11-07 - Complete
119. Undefined Feeling reviews
moments when I don't quite know myself
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-8-07 - Complete
120. My stint as a Catholic school girl reviews
For ten months I wore a green plaid kilt...this feels incomplete to me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 338 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-7-07 - Complete
121. I always lose at chess reviews
White moves first. I choose black every time.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-7-07 - Complete
122. Free of Charge reviews
at the Mediterranean market
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-2-07 - Complete
123. She Declared reviews
Disillusionment. not sure about how well this flows...feedback would be great.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-2-07 - Complete
124. Natural Disaster
another haiku. rended dirt. no words.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Published: 5-1-07 - Complete
125. Grounded
Trying...currently failing...to break a destructive habit.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Published: 5-1-07 - Complete
126. O Lost reviews
the Done inexorable
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-1-07
127. Luckily
My dear! A little frog.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Published: 4-30-07 - Complete
128. egodystonic reviews
...had manic depressive in mind when I wrote this...a comment on contrasts.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-30-07 - Complete
129. Streams of Consciousness » reviews
2005...things I wrote without really thinking.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 12 - Words: 1,221 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-30-07 - Published: 2-2-06
130. Confessions of a Clue addict reviews
dark. not much of a poem, but I felt like writing it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-29-07 - Complete
131. Mister Green reviews
he talked about acne and control and the Matrix, while I memorized the cushions and tried to stop trembling
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-29-07 - Complete
132. I disagreed reviews
she asked, how would you describe it, what you feel?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-29-07 - Complete
133. devotee of Poseidon reviews
abuse: a cycling of tides
Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete
134. Before the bottle drops » reviews
...kind of ends in a sneer.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 2 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete
135. Tangled reviews
I've always been good with knots.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete
136. home front reviews
it always seems easiest to side with what you know.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete
137. I taste iron reviews
...should I see a doctor, or a blacksmith?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete
138. Venus reviews
on a calendar...the image for April
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-27-07 - Complete
139. Eucharist reviews
I got detention.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-27-07 - Complete
140. habitat of senses reviews
sometimes reality creeps up on you...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-27-07 - Complete
141. Esse reviews
a Latin verb
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-26-07
142. To be called Magnanimous reviews
a tribute to the squirrelly cat lady...my favorite teacher of all time...in blank verse
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-26-07
143. Disinherited identity reviews
about identity, I guess.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-2-07
144. It all started with a boy reviews
duplicity
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-1-07
145. I want to paint reviews
More than I've wanted anything in my life.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-26-07
146. They say you get used to it, This Place reviews
She said she'd never get used to it, but to me, it was already better than home.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-26-07
147. Since my mind abandoned me reviews
...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-26-07
148. Unadulterated reviews
Pretension often corresponds with mediocrity. Interpret as you like.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-06 - Complete
149. bonfire reviews
I don't feel like explaining.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-28-06
150. Onlooker
A moment in the computer room this summer.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Published: 9-16-06
151. six billion pinch pots reviews
Ceramics is quite a popular subject at my school.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-11-06
152. Landmark
A place/geographical feature that I particularly love.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Published: 11-14-05
153. Amanda reviews
This is written about a dream I had the other night. Made up of four haikus and one tanka linked together.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8-16-05
154. August earth reviews
I think I'm addicted to writing haikus...this is about summer.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-16-05
155. Suppressed reviews
I think a lot of the time in the modern world, the matters of the soul are put off "for later" or ignored because of everything else going on.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-16-05
156. Conspiracy reviews
a haiku about the "prince of this world"
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-16-05
157. Hereditary reviews
This is a bit pessimistic...about family relationships.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-15-05
158. Strident cove reviews
I've been writing a lot of haikus lately...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-15-05
159. An apple a day reviews
Just me venting in the form of a villanelle.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-15-05
160. Nuance reviews
A tanka (haiku variant 57577) written in frustration.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-15-05
161. Glorious reviews
inspired by an old photograph
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8-12-05
162. elizabeth reviews
a first encounter with someone who talked about God with strong emotion
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 8-11-05
163. procrastination reviews
I have a bad habit.
Poetry: School - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-11-05
164. Wisdom reviews
A very random poem. My only excuse is it was created very late/early at night/morning.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-10-05
165. off guard
Open to interpretation; just me trying to sort out a few things in my head.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 59 - Published: 8-10-05
166. missionaries
About living off of God-inspired by a girl I met at camp this summer.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Published: 8-10-05
167. Shhhh reviews
tattle tales have no friends
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-10-05
168. sharks
A metaphor.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Published: 8-10-05
169. My mom sang in the choir reviews
Started out as my life in church and sort of evolved into a mammoth. Very long.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 915 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-9-05
170. Minority reviews
I suppose this is about hypocritical religious toleration.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 228 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 8-5-05
171. Bitterly reviews
I wrote this without anything in mind, just whatever popped into my head when I was supposed to be writing a paper for English the last day of school, I know where it came from now...I love how poetry makes sense when it doesn't.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-26-05
172. Saved reviews
About: how awesome it feels to live for God.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 292 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-25-05
173. Release reviews
There was a thunderstorm the other day, and I wrote this to try and sort out what I was thinking.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-15-05
174. Holy Bible, Presented: 1909 reviews
I found a bible in my grandma's attic that belonged to my step-greatgrandfather when he was young. This is what I thought about it.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-15-05
175. Birdie reviews
I'm not quite sure where this came from, but I like it anyway. It's a bit strange.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-15-05
176. Rainbow reviews
Technically, this isn't a haiku; it's a tanka, which is a variant of a haiku, so I put it in this category. The title pretty much explains it.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-22-05
177. Migration
Okay, the poem is only ten words, so I can't give that much away in the summary. About birds migrating/missing home
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Published: 2-22-05
178. Sitting Still
About moving and growing up in different environments. I don't usually write poetry from the 3rd person pov, so it'd be great if someone told me what they think about this. Thanks.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 240 - Published: 2-22-05
179. Leave a Penny, Take a Penny reviews
I had to write a cinquain for school, and I heard this story about a woman in Ohio who put a penny on traintracks to smash it and it killed her when the train came.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-22-05
180. Funeral Smile reviews
I wanted to write a villanelle, so here it is. It's about the death of a relative.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-22-05
181. In the treehouse
I recently wrote this for school because I needed a quatrain. It's about some of my childhood memories and paranoias
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Published: 2-22-05
182. Never Told reviews
A combination of childhood memories/feelings and how I feel now. Suffice it to say a have an issue with trust.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-26-05
183. Running in the Cold reviews
I like running in cold weather...wrote a poem bout it...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-21-05
184. Birthday Present
A depressing fourteenth birthday.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 252 - Published: 8-1-03
185. Untitled reviews
When I wrote this I was having a rare good day and someone else who wasn't having a good day came along and ruined it.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-31-03
186. The Beach
I didn't really write this one for a reason. I don't know what else to say. It's not really happy or sad or anything, it's just a poem.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Published: 5-31-03
187. Spring
This is one of my happier poems. please review.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Published: 3-23-03
188. Memories reviews
I don't know if this is good or not, so please review.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-22-03
189. Broken reviews
The title explains it, general hopelessness.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-21-03
190. Leak reviews
Apathy and hopelessness
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-21-03
191. Santa Clause
Please r&r.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Published: 3-20-03
192. Best Friend reviews
Have you ever kind of drifted away from a friend and it felt awkward every time you talked to them? Please r&r.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-20-03
193. Sometimes reviews
Please r&r.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-20-03
194. Childhood Garden
Just a few colored memories.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Published: 3-20-03
195. Sisterly Love reviews
I wrote this when I was 10 and my sister was 13 and all moody; anyway, i'm 13 now and...r&r.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-03
196. The Storm reviews
This is pretty stupid. I wrote it for school a few years ago.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-03
197. The Wind of Sorrows reviews
This isn't very good. I wrote it when i was like 11 and I was uploading poems today and thought 'what the hec, might as well upload all of them, this one included' so...i did. anyway,r&r.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-28-03
198. Ache reviews
just something i wrote when i was depressed
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-03
199. Limerick » reviews
something stupid I wrote for a journal inn school last year
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-15-02 - Published: 11-12-02
200. Sweet Revenge reviews
Plants take over the world...
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,563 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-12-02