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since: 06-15-04, id: 419222, Profile Updated: 12-28-08
country: United States
Author has written 52 stories for Life, Romance, General, Essay, Humor, Haiku, Love, Nature, and War.

My name is Johanna. I am seventeen. I play the piano. I buy more used books than I ever have time to read, but I never regret the purchases.

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1. the little sylvan house reviews
I miss the house, the little cozy house / Its downy bed was big enough for two / Its sturdy walls could never quite hold love / And somehow it was bigger than the world
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-13-08 - Published: 11-13-08
2. I lost the string that held the dulcet world reviews
a sonnet.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-1-08 - Published: 11-1-08
3. confession reviews
I write poetry about people whom I have never met.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-4-08 - Published: 8-4-08
4. the day is dying reviews
now here, within the faded loss of day, / the night is calmer, softer, gentler, true. / to banish wanderlust’s cruel naïveté, / the moon lies overturned in velvet blue.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-28-08 - Published: 3-28-08
5. slipping by reviews
even the clearest of moments is obscured by time's gauzy curtains and intricate lace.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-21-08 - Published: 1-21-08
6. the organ grinder reviews
a love poem: if, my darling, you awake to a world gone madly awry ...
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-3-08 - Published: 1-3-08
7. nearly cerulean reviews
a love poem: an endless cacophony of color waits for you there, in the slippery promise of release and liberation.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-4-07 - Published: 12-4-07
8. touch
when you kiss me underneath a sky strewn with sparkles, I cannot help but feel that your kiss is everything I hold dear.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-11-07 - Published: 11-11-07
9. a splash of light reviews
if, my darling, you can believe in time, then you can believe that when I woke this morning I was not in love with you, and now, ever so gently and ever so slightly, I am.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-28-07 - Published: 10-28-07
10. carried away reviews
love: that perfidious being with the roguish smile whom we all curse but secretly adore
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-27-07 - Published: 10-27-07
11. a city of ridiculous dreams reviews
prose: the rosy glow of her past fades into a sepia present.
Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 441 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-27-07 - Published: 10-27-07
12. new york midnight reviews
and here I am, in the city of hustlebustle can'tstopmoving mustgetsomewherebiggerbetter.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-13-07 - Published: 9-13-07
13. wanderlust, again reviews
to stagnate is the only hell I know.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-8-07 - Published: 9-8-07
14. in love and in longing reviews
but you and your unconsciousness never could listen, could you?
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-4-07 - Published: 9-4-07
15. autumn reviews
I wonder why it's only autumn on random tuesdays, and why my fear can't shelter me from you in every other season.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-8-07 - Published: 8-8-07
16. plain black coffee reviews
a love poem: I hate to say the obvious, but I was once a wistful coffeegirl.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-26-07 - Published: 7-26-07
17. sisyphus reviews
the catch in your romanticized plan is that I saw you push the boulder down the hill.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-18-07 - Published: 7-18-07
18. beloved of the moon reviews
a love poem: the lonely night begins, and with the rise of moonbeams, love seems much too far away. and yesterday I glimpsed your coffee eyes: I’ve dreamt of them too many times today.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-14-07 - Published: 7-14-07
19. a crimson dress reviews
prose: a crimson dress of many hues that I wear on a midsummer’s night. and my crimson dress and I, twirling, spinning, laughing, miss you when you go away.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-9-07 - Published: 7-9-07
20. under the cypress tree reviews
your dark eyes are a little too warm, your smile is a little too knowing. my blood is rushing a little too swiftly and I can't do anything but fall into your arms.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-8-07 - Published: 7-8-07
21. delilah reviews
wanting nothing but to touch his rough, shorn hair, how can she understand her fall from grace?
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-13-07 - Published: 6-13-07
22. the equinox reviews
I cannot live in this somehowworld, in this eternal equinox of perfidious fear.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-28-07 - Published: 5-28-07
23. spring reviews
to live seems such a fantastical dream.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-28-07 - Published: 5-28-07
24. on the verge reviews
I wonder at the fact that the moon grows still when every kite is on the verge of falling out of the sky.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-6-07 - Published: 5-6-07
25. perhaps
I meet you in the parking lot, in the usual space, and we speed off with exquisite recklessness in the dead of night, thinking of nothing at all.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 5-6-07 - Published: 5-6-07
26. red wine eden reviews
in strange, cold towns, with red wine on your bitter lips and a song lilting by our ears
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-4-07 - Published: 5-4-07
27. I have a secret
and in my deepest, darkest house of things hiding, illimitably close...
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 4-17-07
28. tangled reviews
a deep, base yearning for something unknown and unknowable
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-15-07 - Published: 4-15-07
29. iphigenia
a poem about the death of Iphigenia, the daughter of the Greek commander Agamemnon, who was sacrificed so her father's army could go fight at Troy: a dream of honour, a gust of wind leading far from secluded islands, to glory and war.
Complete - War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-25-07 - Published: 3-25-07
30. terra incognita reviews
truth be told, it is the greatest thing of beauty, greatest feeling known. and yet.....
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-17-07 - Published: 3-17-07
31. headlock
a girl’s eyes, stuck on fields which lie outside of her bay window. as the dawn skies pale, she thinks in silence of her life confined.
Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-15-07 - Published: 2-15-07
32. puncuated life reviews
I was playing around with punctuation and poetry format, and this is what happened. 'cacophonous silence, and a secret refuge'
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-11-07 - Published: 1-11-07
33. nighttime peace vigil in september
a sonnet I wrote in my head on a bridge downtown during a peace vigil, hence the title. it's not political. I'm not sure what it means.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-21-06 - Published: 11-21-06
34. The Lorelai reviews
A sonnet written in a castle off of the Rhine River in Germany. Inspired by the Lorelai siren of legend.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-26-06 - Published: 9-26-06
35. army planes
a sonnet: I wish for rain, for clouds and mist and gray. clouds keep the sight of army planes away.
War - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 9-10-06 - Published: 9-10-06
36. a treehugger's nighttime sonnet reviews
inspired by the night sky and shakespeare's sonnets.
Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-15-06 - Published: 8-15-06
37. walking with ghosts
a sonnet composed about weaving your life out of your past and present, and just living instead of thinking about it.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-31-06 - Published: 7-31-06
38. some million lights
maybe it's a dream just idle fantasy, but i'm gone from this world. written as a series of haiku.
Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 7-25-06 - Published: 7-25-06
39. freak storm reviews
inspired by a real storm I was in and something one of my friends said.
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-18-06 - Published: 7-18-06
40. colors of the crayon box reviews
"traces of these ephemeron / are the traffic lights' pulse / and, perhaps, the shriek / of fury in the distance".
General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-20-06 - Published: 6-20-06
41. wanderlust reviews
a 3part poem about leaving home to wander. one of my favorites.
Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-9-06 - Published: 6-9-06
42. verisimilitude reviews
a haiku. you decide what it's about, because i'm not really sure.
Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-8-06 - Published: 6-8-06
43. the caging of beauty reviews
"for in painting an instant / it is captured, then lost, / the memory overshadowed / by apathetic dyes"
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-2-06 - Published: 6-2-06
44. thoughts on a cold midwinter night reviews
A haiku that, ironically, was written in June.
Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-2-06 - Published: 6-2-06
45. Ode to Sonnets reviews
The ironic thing about this sonnet, written originally to make fun of how much I suck at iambic pentameter (I have since improved) is that if you know anything about sonnets, you'll realize that it's not one. I messed up. It makes it funnier.
Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-31-06 - Published: 5-31-06
46. Sojourns reviews
A short piece I wrote as a basis for a monologue in a drama class.
Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-4-06 - Published: 2-4-06
47. there's gold in johannesburg reviews
"...leaving a meadow and the fading memory of strumming an acoustic guitar and spinning in small, tight circles..."
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 182 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-31-05 - Published: 12-31-05
48. gray iris reviews
prose: somewhere in my mind is the picture of a man walking by the sea.
General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-18-05 - Published: 12-18-05
49. the masquerade reviews
skirts twirling and slippers treading, massive colors swirled in a circle and a frenzy.
Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-14-05 - Published: 9-14-05
50. Paper Lanterns reviews
A short story of faded infatuation, betrayal, old love . . . sounds cheesy, but if you read anything of mine, read this one.
Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,165 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-5-05 - Published: 9-5-05
51. Two o'Clock reviews
thoughts & ramblings written two minutes ago, at two in the morning
Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-22-05 - Published: 5-22-05
52. Questions reviews
written about that universal question: who am i anyway?
Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-5-05 - Published: 4-5-05
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