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| Luke Rounda |
Author has written 64 stories for Sci-Fi, Love, General, Life, War, Horror, and Humor. "I don't like things too obvious because if it's obvious it gets really stale... we don't mean to be cryptic or mysterious, I just think that lyrics that are different, weird and spacey paint a nice picture, and that's just the way I like art." Lately, I've taken to summarizing myself for mass consumption in 160 characters or less (a cruel task handed down by social media) as such: "A verecund voluntarist of vim and veracity. Lover of music, computers, freedom, and other sci-fi. INTP. Engineer-poet. The world's an XBox; I'm more Atari." When I write poetry, I post it here. While I try on occasion to write in a stream-of-consciousness style, my writing is probably more akin to knitting or whittling on the porch. Much of my inspiration is taken from music. I could name a song to fit with every piece here. For those new to the site, here is an example of poetry so you know what to shoot for if you want to be taken seriously: PERIODS My wrists are ivory white and pale | |||||||
1. Swill reviewsThey'd rather have courage than heart or a brain.Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-14-13 - Complete2. The Cherry Tree Dream reviewsI was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended. Existence at last seemed very purposive.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-21-13 - Complete3. MountaineerThere's nothing there for you. There's no resources. People have scouted in advance. It sucks. There's documentaries on it. Stay clear.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Published: 2-6-13 - Complete4. Do Lions Chase Laser Pointers?This is a lion, but not just any lion. His name means "he who greets with fire." He is a magnificent beast.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Published: 1-18-13 - Complete5. Ruby KneebootsWhat is imagination, that it should make me so wasteful? We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. How many lives this illusive creature has.Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Published: 8-22-12 - Complete6. Age of SailI've been the world over, north, south, east, and west/ But the middle of nowhere's where I like it bestPoetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Published: 8-9-127. Saffron reviewsThe most expensive spice in the world. Its aroma is often described by connoisseurs as reminiscent of metallic honey with grassy or hay-like notes, while its taste has also been noted as hay-like and sweet.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-19-12 - Complete8. Navigation TranceIn his navigation trance, all star systems and planets were a grand tapestry, and he could travel along any thread he chose.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Published: 5-24-12 - Complete9. End Over End reviewsI wanted to be with you alone and talk about the weather.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-4-10 - Complete10. Gravity reviewsCatching it means she accepts.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-4-10 - Complete11. LanternsIn a mile you will see / After me / You'll be out of the dark, yeah.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Published: 5-28-10 - Complete12. Tapes and Pins reviewsI know you're holding.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-17-10 - Complete13. Black Swan Dive reviewsHigh-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare beyond normal expectation.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-17-10 - Complete14. Vacancy reviewsNO.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-15-09 - Complete15. Poker Face reviewsThere is no mathematics to love and loss.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-7-09 - Complete16. Lotus Eater reviewsThe end.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-4-09 - Complete17. Poison's Music reviewsGet me a river, cry me a bridge and build over it.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 263 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-11-09 - Complete18. The Soft Fireworks reviewsEverything is connected, for better or worse.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-15-09 - Complete19. Eden, California 2008Science and religion aren't quite meant for each other, but sometimes the clash is unavoidable... An update of an earlier work.Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,951 - Published: 7-14-08 - Complete20. Ouroborous Ink reviewsA man philosophizes upon the nature of existence from inside a prison's walls. The ouroboros is a circular symbol of a snake or dragon devouring its tail, standing for infinity or wholeness.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Drama/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 335 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-10-08 - Complete21. Chlorination reviews-"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas JeffersonPoetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 283 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-2-08 - Complete22. The Only Difference reviews...Between Metaphor and Simile is Like Oh My GodPoetry: Humor - Rated: M - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-11-08 - Complete23. Rifle Sights and Butterflies reviewsAll of us now, bent as we fall to amorous light, we call out, why are we so alone, even with company?Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-7-08 - Complete24. Twenty Eight reviewsHurricane winds pale next to the tempests of human nature. Based on true events.Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,354 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-28-07 - Complete25. Ad Astra Per Aspera reviewsTo the stars through adversity, the Kansas state motto.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-1-07 - Complete26. Once in a Blue Moon reviewsOn average, there will be 41 months that have two Full Moons in every century, so you could say that once in a Blue Moon actually means once every twoandahalf years.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 273 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-1-07 - Complete27. Locusts reviewsWhen the Muses first brought song into the world, the beauty so captivated some people that they forgot to eat and drink until they died. The Muses turned those unfortunate souls into locusts—singing their entire lives.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-29-07 - Complete28. BlueprintsSpeak in riddles and burn all photographic evidence.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 3-25-07 - Complete29. Mixer reviewsShaken, not stirred.Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-20-06 - Complete30. Fedora reviewsUsually worn by men, but ladies' versions can also be found.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-12-06 - Complete31. Some reviewsSome people's kids...Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-19-06 - Complete32. Coconut reviewsYou've got two coconuts and you're bangin' 'em together!Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-9-0633. Romance in a Vacuum reviewsEngaged? Make it so!Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 224 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-6-0634. Foreign Words reviewsThe instructions are always difficult to decipher.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-6-0635. Hotel reviewsUnder the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live, and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-3-06 - Complete36. Message in a Bottle reviewsVitriol was the word I was looking for.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-3-0637. The Replacement Waltz reviewsWhen you toss and turn in the morning after no sleep, trying to become comfortable again. It's a dance move.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-15-0638. Unfiltered reviewsThis was inspired by the concept of limerence - an affliction which is neither love nor mere sexual attraction.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-9-0639. BastinadoWhen I was a child I was given some advice which I've been turning over in my head ever since...Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Published: 7-9-0640. Deaf Flag Blues reviewsThere's still no driver at the wheel.Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 207 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-7-0641. Psychomachia Americana reviews"Psychomachia" is an old Greek word that means "Battle of Souls." "Americana" is... an album by the Offspring. (They are American.)Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 203 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-7-0642. The Ones Who Never Screamed Loudest reviewsHistory favors the winner.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-17-0643. 27 reviewsSee if you can guess what I am now. ... I'm a zit. Get it?Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-13-0644. Saccharine Twisted Lovesong reviewsThe assembly line can be such a tease.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 207 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-12-0645. A Devil's Anagogy reviewsAnagogy: a mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text, especially scriptural exegesis that detects allusions to heaven or the afterlife.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-3-0546. Sneezing Blues reviewsBless you.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-20-0547. MarionettesqueEveryone loves the sound of stringed instruments.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Published: 8-7-0548. Our Other Group reviewsThe long-awaited sequel to "Our Little Group."Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-19-0549. Pink Noise reviewsThere's light at the end of every tunnel, and every tunnel is a candle burning at both ends.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-24-0550. This Wishful Firefly reviewsIt's all so pretty until it explodes.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-27-0551. Dance of the Wallflowers reviewsIt's so comforting to understand - innuendo loves you when no one else gives a damn.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-14-0552. Paper or Plastic reviewsAnother patented hate poem. I really shouldn't go to poetry readings at the local college, apparently...Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3-8-0553. Wisdom Teeth reviewsThis poem has been rated PG-13 for having the word "fucking" in it. It has been edited to fit your fucking screen and for fucking time.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-24-0554. Our Little Group reviews... has always been and always will...Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-20-0555. Soap Box reviewsThis is just a bar from inside.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-20-0556. Annabelle reviewsI don't know anyone by this name.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-20-0557. Sugar reviewsSink a sweet tooth into sour fruit.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-20-0558. Smoke Break reviewsSmoking: because why else would you go outside?Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-20-0559. Water Damage reviewsChanges made on this page can take up to 24 hours to take effect.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-31-0560. Angels Live Forever reviewsSummarize this.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-31-0561. Orange reviewsOrange is the word that has no rhyme. Sometimes you just feel orange.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-31-0562. It Matches Your Eyes reviewsA hate poem. Review, but don't be so damned dramatic. (Just kidding.)Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-31-0563. Salina Blues reviewsA thousand miles from soundest sleep, walking around with open wounds, feeling blessed. This lonesome highway song...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 433 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-29-05 - Complete64. Eden, California reviewsScience and religion aren't quite meant for each other, but sometimes the clash is unavoidable...Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Sci-Fi/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,834 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 1-26-01
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