I'm working on being more honest. I'm so damn meticulous...I just need to feel and write.

Those long lines in the poems mark the beginning of each stanza, because I just can't figure out how to get things to format correctly, but now I hear it's like that for all folks on fictionpress.

I love writing. It feels amazing to capture something the way you can with a poem. I write about my weird family, my identity, love, loss of love, beautiful moments nature offers us. I'm trying to cover everything. I want to look at life candidly and capture it.

8/11: I have been away for a while. I always do that. I go for these long periods without writing. Now I'm finally writing a substantial amount of work (because half of my stuff I just extract a couple of lines from or never use or just use it to get me started on a thought). Little by little I'll put everything I'm working on up, even if it's not necessarily completely and meticulously edited. I'd really love to see people comment on stuff, not in a douche back way (aka you spelled tear wrong). And if you don't have a fictionpress account and just found the link, feel free to directly comment to me via email or whatever any feelings you have. I know it seems I don't write much, but really I always am, it's just a matter of putting all the short blurbs I feel together into something cohesive.

-I need to fix the tenses in "hospital"...it came out a little wrong. I'll get to it.

*I have been getting around fictionpress and writing a great deal of reviews. With hope I'll see some of you writing to me! I try to give commentary on people's work...even if it's just what i feel about the subject they are writing on. Okay I'm done.

This shit speaks for itself I guess.

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1. Sand And Light reviews

Start of a New relationship...basically what the first week felt like. 1st assignment on using imagery in my poetry class...check it out

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 159 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-1-06 - Published: 10-1-06

2. It Starts With the Oven reviews

My mom and I were baking Christmas cookies, and it was interesting to think about everything she knows and has been through and what my chances are of ending up in some ways like her. I (although frightening) can sense some similarities. I think this is a

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-10-06 - Published: 8-10-06

3. I wanted a song reviews

I can't get it to format correctly. I need help, anyone? Sometimes relationships can't be summarized in a poem. This is a work in progress, expect an update, no where near complete, but the beginning of a thought I had.

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 419 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-10-06 - Published: 8-10-06

4. Hospital reviews

About my father, and how I felt at the end of his life, in the hospital. blahh.

Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 327 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-11-06 - Published: 1-11-06

5. Movement reviews

I wrote this over the summer, after a walk or something. I just think it's weird...I'm not sure about it.

Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-10-06 - Published: 1-10-06

6. That Familiar Sting reviews

I was upset the other night, and this came out. I usually don't rhyme, but something happened here. Check it out.

Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-9-06 - Published: 1-9-06

7. A Plea to Hold Hands reviews

I like my boyfriend's hands, this poem has been in the shop for like a year, and I felt like finishin it today...check it out.

Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 10-5-05 - Published: 10-5-05

8. On Youth reviews

After one of the last parties I went to with people from highschool, I began to write this, and have finished it realizing it was meant to be about growing up and moving on, but keeping the carefree part of youth..read on.

Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-16-05 - Published: 9-16-05

9. Rain Could Fall reviews

This one is okay...just feeling parallels between extreme heat and hunidity and my life.

Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-30-05 - Published: 7-30-05

10. photos reviews

I was inspired when my boyfriend got into photography...check it out.

General - Fiction Rated: M - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-30-05 - Published: 7-30-05

11. Old Woman reviews

My teacher asked us to write poems about bein called a name. I wrote about something personal: being teased when I was younger b/c i smelled like smoke-my parents smoked. That pain of being laughed at, whispered out is fresh. My teacher wrote "this is

Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-4-05 - Published: 5-4-05

12. My Father is A Memory

This is a non-fiction essay I wrote and submitted to Newsweek-I'm really thinking about using it as the framework for a novel-maybe I will adapt my experiences with my dad into fiction. Not a long read-but I'm sharing a large part of myself here.

Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,000 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-5-05 - Published: 4-5-05

13. What I am to You reviews

This is about what I mean to Rich-I always ask him to tell me anything. Sometimes I think I just want him to tell me how much he loves me. He is not very verbal, but I know he loves me from his actions. I wish he'd say more from his heart. I'm having s

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-27-05 - Published: 3-27-05

14. A Letter to the End of Autumn reviews

This is poem about the realization of love lost-of my first real experience with giving my all, having nothing left to give and living again. This is my re-vamped version.

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 241 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-26-05 - Published: 3-26-05

15. Haiku'sAutumn, Sleep, New Ideas, Gone reviews

A few haikus i wrote- it was my first real attempt at writing them, so I don't know, i think they turned out okay

Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-26-05 - Published: 3-26-05

16. Morning Tree reviews

The Tree in the front of my house has almost participated in my growth process...childhood through the present. This is almost an ode to it.

Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-31-05 - Published: 1-31-05

17. Becoming Acquainted reviews

This is about the first time that my boyfriend and I hung out- we spent all day driving around and getting to know eachother, it was GREAT!

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-31-05 - Published: 1-31-05

18. Here reviews

This was also about a failed love affair...I still think it could use more, but it was so long ago when I wrote it and my perspective of that time has changed a lot. This is the re-vised

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-28-04 - Published: 11-28-04

19. At Dawn reviews

An exercise in a poetry class I took a couple of years ago was to write a poem based on a post card of a painting we liked- this painting happens to be in our local art gallery...I've always loved its surrealism

Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-28-04 - Published: 11-28-04

20. The States of Waiting reviews

I was thinking about what its like waiting for the one person that you really want to see to arrive and how hard it is when they don't show up or they are late. There's these two central feelings: your hope and your dissapointment.

Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-28-04 - Published: 11-28-04

21. Saturday Errands

I miss my father sometimes. He wasn't a good father, but as time goes on I try to remember more of him. This poem is personal (all of mine are), It describes one experience with his parenting. Its missing something.

Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 228 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 11-24-04 - Published: 11-24-04

22. What I Know at 3:00 reviews

This is what I learned during a rainshower while I was standing downtown waiting for a bus- I was amazed that people sometimes think that a rain shower in symbolic of some sort of spiritual cleansing-the change has to come from somewhere else

Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-04