I'm Alexander.

I had a list of my favorite bands up here, but I have realized that it would actually say much more about me as a writer and lyricist to list my favorite songs instead.

So here are five:

"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" the most awesome hymn ever,
"Closer" by Nine Inch Nails,
"Dead Souls" by Joy Division,
"The Star of the County Down" traditional Irish,
"Holiday in Cambodia" by the Dead Kennedys.

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1. The Casket reviews

A ballad from the perspective of a hedonistic king.

Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 185 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-3-07 - Published: 3-3-07

2. Freedom reviews

A very structured poem musing on absolute dedication to freedom.

Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-3-07 - Published: 3-3-07

3. The Drunk and the Sage reviews

A dialogue between a monk and a drunk.

Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-3-07 - Published: 3-3-07

4. Remorse reviews

A villanelle.

Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 151 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-3-07 - Published: 3-3-07

5. Lord Vengeance

A ballad of vengeance.

Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 289 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 3-3-07 - Published: 3-3-07

6. The Death of a Demigod reviews

A ballad of which I am quite fond, to be a song for Enzell. The rhythm has an interesting flow because the trochaic and dactylic feet are used interchangeably.

Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 241 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-4-06 - Published: 9-4-06

7. Untitled reviews

This is probably the best poem I've ever written.

Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-19-06 - Published: 8-19-06

8. The Feast reviews

A poem in an odd meter. Rendered as music, it comes out to a 7/8 time signature.

Song - Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-18-06 - Published: 8-18-06

9. Oh Radiant One reviews

A short poem forty-two syllables long.

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-13-06 - Published: 8-13-06

10. The Ballad of Rodger Blackcoat reviews

An outlaw ballad.

Song - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 317 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-06

11. Death reviews

A meditation on death, to be sung to a chantlike melody. It is to be performed and recorded, hopefully, by the Tale.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-22-05 - Published: 11-22-05

12. A World So Well Begun reviews

This is a poem that is difficult to summarize. It's thematically similar to most of my poetry, and you may catch hints of underlying implications, but there is no greater metaphor.

Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-30-05 - Published: 9-30-05

13. One Bastion of Truth Shortened Title reviews

Looking through my Documents folder, I encountered this essay on That 70s Show I did in freshman year. The teacher said it was "a little tongue and cheek" which must be the best comment I have ever received.

Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 772 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-29-05 - Published: 9-29-05

14. Corporal Mortification reviews

A song for Enzell.

Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-22-05 - Published: 5-22-05

15. In Dancelike Battle reviews

An epic battle of angels against mortals and demons. A song's lyrics for Enzell.

Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-22-05 - Published: 5-22-05

16. The Song of the Sentinel reviews

Just a song.

War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-23-05 - Published: 4-23-05

17. Those Glorious Highlands reviews

My desire.

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-16-05 - Published: 3-16-05

18. Ashes to Ashes reviews

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Suspense/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-12-05 - Published: 2-12-05

19. The Path of Wrath reviews

A poem about how people can be. Don't take this as overly depressing or cynical, this is just one side of humanity, but it's one well worth writing poems about.

General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-26-04 - Published: 10-26-04

20. The Land Where the Stars Were Dead reviews

For those of you who don't live in a big city, some of these metaphors/concepts may not make the most sense. Bear with me.

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-25-04 - Published: 10-25-04

21. Armageddon reviews

It's pretty self-explanatory, really. Unless you don't know that Hiroshima was the name of where we dropped the A-bomb...

War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-04

22. Thesaurus reviews

On the Clear Skies Act. When I started, I didn't intend for it to be a limerick, but it turned out that way. If any of you have read 1984, you're probably familiar with the concept of "doublespeak"

Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-26-04 - Published: 9-26-04

23. The State of Modern Poetry reviews

Now this is what I call "poetry"

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-26-04 - Published: 9-26-04

24. Heathen reviews

I started thinking the other day, and I got really angry, so I vented it into the poem.

Politics - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 729 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 9-13-04 - Published: 9-13-04

25. The New Jerusalem reviews

Just another poem about the Apocalypse, but this one's way shorter, took way less effort, and is way less awesome than The Death Knell. I don't know why I'm even putting this one up.

Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 361 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04

26. Sheer Beauty reviews

A short poem in honor of the most wonderful thing in the world.

Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-5-04 - Published: 9-5-04

27. Succubus reviews

In case any of you were wondering, this does not, and I mean not, refer to any specific event in my life, ok?

Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-5-04 - Published: 9-5-04

28. Inundate me! reviews

The never-ending, impossible quest to fully understand God.

Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-1-04 - Published: 9-1-04

29. Greed & Gluttony reviews

The sin of greed and gluttony. Read it!

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-29-04 - Published: 8-29-04

30. Graduation Apathy reviews

For school, we were required to write sonnets about graduation. I really didn't care about graduation enough to write a serious poem, so I wrote one about how I didn't care. The reasons for not caring are exaggerated.

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-25-04 - Published: 8-25-04

31. An Episcopalian View reviews

In this, God is portrayed as an owl and as a squirrel, and heaven as a giant tree. It's no more arbitrary than clouds and a Zeus-like figure. Enjoy, if you can.

Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 872 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-24-04 - Published: 8-24-04

32. Elegy for a Dieing Earth reviews

This piece was written in a spontaneous burst of inspiration, in the style of a song. Despite the title, the Earth is not dieing, for nothing by the deeds of man can destroy God's pure creation, so ultimately this threnody laments the defilation of Earth.

Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-24-04 - Published: 8-24-04

33. The Death Knell reviews

This is a poetization of the Prophecies of the Apocalypse. They're not literally accurate, it's in the points. Don't point out minor inconsistencies with Revelations. That's not what this is about. Just enjoy it.

Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,289 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-04 - Published: 8-24-04