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| Archer In The Shadows |
Author has written 90 stories for Friendship, Life, Love, Essay, War, Nature, General, Religion, and Biography. You're human, it happens 3/18/05. Life is so good. Whenever you doubt it, listen to the birds singing or a child's laughter... Name: Lisa, although I have a billion different nicknames. “For many are called but few are chosen” -Matthew 22:14 “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘life is hard’, I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what?’” -Sydney Harris “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be” -Douglas Adams “Hitch your wagon to a star” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “May you live every day of your life” -Jonathan Swift “This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it” -William James “Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart” -William Butler Yeats “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby” -Ruth Renkel “Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid” -Philip R. Breeze “He who has never hoped can never despair” -William Shakespeare “The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins” -Heywood Brown “Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod” -Aristophanes “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” -Dr. Seuss “Little by little, one travels far” -J.R.R. Tolkien “The real hero is a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else” -Umberto Eco “The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory” -writing on a locker-room wall “The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind” -John Allston | |||||
1. Simple Goodbye reviewsThe time comes when you have to give it up. (Dedicated to my Blue Devils of 2004-2005)Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-17-052. Painting reviewsSometimes it doesn't hurt to go outside the lines.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-14-053. Never Forever reviewsNothing lasts forever, but don't despair when they fade.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-8-054. Princess reviewsHypocrisy and spite and angst... joyous. For someone: Are you too precious for us?Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 246 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-8-055. SecretKeeper reviewsIt's a bit spiteful... about someone who thinks their pain is above everyone else'sPoetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-8-056. By My Side reviewsThose that you love never really leave you. (I had a bit of a drama-queen moment writing this)Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-1-057. On the Mend reviewsIt is so good to see a widow smiling again.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-16-058. I Never Told You reviewsTake it whichever way you like.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 293 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-16-059. Chin Up reviewsFor the person I admire most. Never let what others say tear you down.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-16-0510. Wrong reviewsMy apology for my inexcusable hypocrisy.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-15-0511. Edge reviewsSome things can't be forgiven- a certain mistake I made is one of them.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-15-0512. Fight On reviewsA motivational speech written for those out there who keep losing no matter how hard they try. Specifically for my Blue Devils.Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 833 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-25-0513. Portrait reviewsA picture is worth a thousand words, and at times, they are best left unspoken.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 418 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-21-0514. Painful Beauty reviewsHave we sunk so low as to tune out the simple beauty the earth has to offer? Or worse, destrory it?Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-4-0515. For Brandon reviewsWritten for Brandon Keith Ladue, who passed away 12/22/04 at the age of 11. He was a good friend...Fiction: Biography - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 590 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-26-0416. Duty reviewsThis is what you get from reviewing your notes about Plato and Socrates before sitting down to write a poem...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-26-0417. Pink Rose reviewsIt's funny- death comes and goes and you don't realise it until you've faced it, either in yourself or in someone else.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-25-0418. For a Little Angel reviewsNever be afraid. There is always someone watching over you.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-25-0419. CauselessSo many children die for nothing.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Published: 12-25-0420. Rest SweetlyIt is a terrible thing when a child dies for something that wasn't their fault. RIP BKL. I love you.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Published: 12-24-0421. TransitoryWhen you turn around to look back, they're already gone. (The poem sort of fails at the end)Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Published: 12-21-0422. Into the Light reviewsLook on the bright side. Truly.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-21-0423. Never Be Lost reviewsMemories don't leave. (The poem sort of starts to fail at the end... I lost my train of thought)Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-19-0424. The World Burns reviewsIgnorance, stupidity, and selfishness... the curse that is humanity.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-16-0425. On Your Own reviewsIf you hate your life, stop whining and do something! A/n this was directed specifically at a personPoetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-14-0426. Dumfounded reviewsTo leave her, or help her? She doesn't deserve it, but yet she can't help it.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 210 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 12-14-0427. One Step at a Time reviewsI want to abandon you- it's all you deserve, but I can't.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-14-0428. Don't reviewsHumanity will be its own undoing.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 260 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-11-0429. An Undercurrent reviewsIt sounds a little over-dramatic, but it's been perplexing me for a long time...Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-9-0430. Rekindled Fire of Faith reviewsr&r please. Companion poem to my third book.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-4-0431. Journey to BethlehemThe successive poem to "God's Call". It's the continuing story of Mary and Joseph's voyage to Bethlehem. The metre is even worse in this one. It keeps changing.Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 287 - Published: 12-4-0432. God's CallIt's not a particularly religious piece of writing, but the story of Mary and the angel Gabriel. The metre in this one isn't constant.Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 408 - Published: 12-4-0433. Warm Comfort reviewsI seem to have an obsession with the sun lately; not quite sure what it is. No matter what happens, the sun still rises, whether you like it or not. Don't hide from the day.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-29-0434. Twilight Broken reviewsTwilight. Not night, not morning, an obscure time that tricks the senses and the mind... and all too soon it is gone.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-26-0435. No Different reviewsMore spiteful than most of my others. Do not think the rest of the world does not suffer.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-21-0436. To The Sun reviewsThere's symbolism in here, but I don't know what it is. I don't think; I just write.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-21-0437. Smile, Friend reviewsKeep your head up. Written with Tori in mind.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-15-0438. For Something reviewsI saw a verse from a song written on someone's arm one day in math and this just sort of came to me. Basically, don't lose sight of your purpose.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-15-0439. In Its Path reviewsTake it as you will. It wasn't meant to truly have one meaning.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-15-0440. La Vie en Rose reviewsLife is beautiful.Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,171 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 9-9-0441. New Hampshire Sunset reviewsWritten when I saw what was possibly the most beautiful setting sun in my entire life. Dedicated to Julie, Matt, Jamie, Coach, Mr. Buonato, Boss, and Nanny.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-0442. I Am the Rain reviewsA personal reflection about being part of the world.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-9-0443. The Hour of the Wolf reviewsThere is a period just before the sun rises when the world is shrouded in fog. It is a mysterious time when the world is still asleep, and my people call this The Hour of the Wolf.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-0444. Coming to a Close reviewsNothing is forever, especially not good-bye.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-9-0445. No title Neve's Song reviewsCompanion-poem to my book. The first half is written in Enladi, a language that I've made up, with the second being the English translation. Short but hopeful.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-9-0446. No title Ettiéve'songAnother companion-poem to one of my books. Even if it looks bleak in the end, you do not have to despair.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Published: 9-9-0447. Sundrops reviewsThis one was a spur-of-the-moment thing when my family was in northern Ontario on the shores of Georgian Bay. Beautiful country up there...Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-9-0448. SisterSoul reviewsDedicated to Tori Peck, my lantern in the dark. I don't know what I'd do without her- she's truly an angel. Unfortunately I seem to have a talent for writing bad poems about amazing friends, but I tried.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-9-0449. The Greatest Person I KnowWrote this for Wei... if there's any person better than her, I'd like to know who it is. This poem is pretty ugly though; it doesn't do her justice at all.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Published: 9-9-0450. Dream! reviewsMeh... just a bit of thinking. Not particularly a very good one.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-6-0451. No Title Iambic Pentameter reviewsWe were assigned this bit of writing in English one day, and this was the result. Very short.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-6-0452. The Clock reviewsAnother bit of reflective writing about the way time works.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-6-0453. The Blue and the Grey reviewsAnother poem dedicated to both the Confederate and the Union men that fought at Gettysburg. It's mostly written from a Confederate point of view because the content deals with Pickett's Charge, which was, after all, a Confederate assault.Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 505 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-6-0454. Gettysburg reviewsWhen we went to Gettysburg one day, we re-enacted Pickett's Charge, and I was inspired to write this poem honouring the 5,000 Confederates that died. Dedicated to Samuel Ronk, 28th Virginia Regiment.Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-16-0455. Because reviewsA list of reasons why a certain bunch of kids are so special to mePoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-1-0456. Into the ChaosSooner or later, you have to face reality.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Published: 5-1-0457. Back Here Again reviewsGood-bye is never forever... (cliché, I know, and not one of my better ones)Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-1-0458. Dream Map reviewsVery different from how I normally write, although I was in a very pensive mood when this came into my mind... I'm always so perplexed by dreams.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-1-0459. Season 20032004 reviewsJust a little personal reflection. It's pretty typical, but I've got a story in progress right now based on it...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-1-0460. Take Me AwayBased on the Irish aire "Come By the Hills". Hey, I was in choir; what do you expect?Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 5-1-0461. RealisationDedicated to my Howard Huskies Peewee B's of 2002-2003, and to my Montgomery Blue Devils u-14 Gold's of 2003-2004. Two different teams with totally different people, and yet I still made the same mistake... but it taught me something.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Published: 5-1-0462. To the Best of them All reviewsA reflective piece of writing to express my thanks to my best friends in the world.Fiction: Essay - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,255 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-1-0463. Me and My MemoriesYou can always have more than nothing.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 406 - Published: 2-21-0464. Don't WorryI don't know what lies ahead, but I'm not afraid. I know I'll come back someday.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Published: 2-21-0465. Back Where I BelongA little reminiscing of a time long past...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Published: 2-21-0466. Just Us and the Stars reviewsWouldn't it be great if you and a friend could leave everything behind and spend the rest of your lives underneath the diamond quilt of the sky? ... too bad you can't.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 228 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-21-0467. Living StatueAfter being told 'no' so many times, you learn to become deaf to their wordsPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Published: 2-21-0468. Remember That Time reviewsA little reflection on the greatest time of my lifePoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 215 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-21-0469. Beat YouPeople who break their promises never get the best of mePoetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 246 - Published: 2-21-0470. Think of MeWhen all your other friends desert you, I'll be therePoetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Published: 2-21-0471. What You See reviewsSome people are masters of disguise when it comes to hiding what is within themPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 356 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-21-0472. Traveler Without a Compass reviewsr&r please. Sometimes you don't end up where you wanted to be.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0373. What Are Dreams?A little pondering of mine... my own thoughts are much too complex to put into writing but I tried...Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Published: 12-5-0374. This Season Was Amazing reviewsJust a short one... everything mentioned really did happen sheepish grinPoetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-5-0375. Spurious Truth reviewsAre our fears real, or do we create them?Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0376. Rocks in the SandA short one, but it conveys what a memory is to mePoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Published: 12-5-0377. Not Anymore reviewsr&r please. Trust is a dangerous thing to give.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0378. Memories of You reviewsEverything comes and goes, but memories last an eternity.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 363 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0379. MemoriesA short one; even as time passes, the memory still remains.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Published: 12-5-0380. You Can'tA short one. You've got take chances while you can, because no one lives forever. Inspired by a quote of Ian's.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Published: 12-5-0381. My Mind's SeaSometimes you can't tell what a person is hiding.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Published: 12-5-0382. I Have to Jump reviewsr&r please. This one was written on a whim so it's not supposed to be anything spectacular- just something that came to me one day while I was ready to fall asleep in sciencePoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0383. Flames of Faith reviewsr&r please. The companion poem to my first book.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 309 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0384. Embers of Faithr&r please. The companion poem to my second book.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Published: 12-5-0385. Caged Bird reviewsJust because you're trapped doesn't mean you have to give up hope.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-5-0386. A Soul That Lies Within reviewsGiving up or having faith...?Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-5-0387. So Near reviewsA really short poem, once again written on a whim.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-5-0388. Welcome to My Life reviewsA hockey player's life is a little different... but it's the best one out therePoetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-7-0389. Enemy Land reviewsLoneliness is a hard burden to bearPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-7-0390. We'll Be Flying reviewsOne of the better ones I've written...Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-3-03
