Devil's Footprint
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since: 02-24-05, id: 461606
country: USA
Author has written 96 stories for Love, Life, General, War, Sci-Fi, Spiritual, Horror, Song, General, Fantasy, Politics, Friendship, and Family.

I'm Robert. I started writing poetry around Spring 2004, and pretty much everything since then I've uploaded here. I started out pretty embarrassingly, I'll admit, but I learned eventually. If you review, all I ask for is constructive criticism--If it's bad, tell me. Most of my stuff is pretty cynical, but there are a few upbeat ones in there, too... if you can find them.


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Previously known as FallenJames, The Blessed Disease, and The Crow's Call. Strange how we change our names as we change... If it was that easy in real life, society would be much more organic.

1. Rock n Roll Scared Mom Away reviews
mostly about my dad, and my parents' divorce.
Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-18-07 - Complete
2. Starlight and Fire reviews
this poem is really split into two parts, revealing two aspects of the same story.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-13-07 - Complete
3. Warm reviews
an appropriate piece, with winter coming on
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-13-07 - Complete
4. Third Grade Valentine reviews
About a girl I knew, who changed.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-10-07 - Complete
5. Thick reviews
Our vices control us, and sometimes what we love causes all of our problems. Rated T for language
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-10-07 - Complete
6. No, Unless reviews
What is your weakness?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-26-07 - Complete
7. Withered reviews
The conclusion to a long, sad relationship
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-23-07 - Complete
8. In Living Color reviews
About a very talented friend of mine.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-15-07
9. Behind the Wheel reviews
Have we taken too much control? And where is this country headed?
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-15-07 - Complete
10. The Simple Pain of Living reviews
This is a poem written by my 11yearold sister, Opel. Please R&R. She really wants to know what people will think of her work and she has no confidence in her abilities. Just remember, she's only 11, so be kind. Rated M for language.
Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 290 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-18-07 - Complete
11. New Year Blues reviews
Some way to greet the year...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-3-07 - Complete
12. Without a Cause reviews
We're just heroes without anything to be heroic about...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-3-07 - Complete
13. The Hiding Tree » reviews
A series of poems based around "the hiding tree"
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Mystery - Chapters: 4 - Words: 563 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-1-06 - Published: 8-2-06
14. Wheels reviews
Alot has happened lately. I tried to gather it all together here... not sure how well that turned out
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-22-06
15. if there ever was a time reviews
One of my more sincerely emotional poems...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-6-06
16. How Long? reviews
How long will it take for what we have built to be forgotten?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 184 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-6-06
17. Just Beautiful reviews
I saw the sunrise-shouldn't you?
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-26-06
18. These Dirty Fangs reviews
We're all vampires, some just greedier than others.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-10-06
19. Forgettable reviews
Just reminiscing, really. I didn't like the rythm, and I don't think I got the idea across as well as I would have liked to, but Read and Review anyway, please
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 490 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-7-06
20. A Summer Prayer reviews
There comes a time when we must forget sadness, and look to new beginnings
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-13-06
21. Restart reviews
Maybe we need to forget the past, step forward, and smile...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-11-06
22. Candles reviews
What's your poison, and what's your cure?
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-7-06
23. Breaking Rythms reviews
What happens when the lies you tell yourself start to fall apart?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-2-06
24. I Promise
Sometimes dark instances pull the shades over our light...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Published: 5-2-06
25. By the Nightside reviews
The world is a different place after the sun goes down...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-2-06
26. My Sweet Commisioned Wife reviews
A poem about a futuristic family.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-30-06
27. Belle Cou reviews
I've sort of been obsessed with vampires lately... I don't think it's very good, but it's just an outlet for the vampire craze.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-30-06
28. Flee the Scene reviews
Two lovers attempt to escape... (I might add more chapters to this)
Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-20-06
29. Under the Colors reviews
About the morality of dying for one's country.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 211 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-15-06
30. Of the Isle reviews
The description of a beautiful, yet untouchable, young woman.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3-15-06
31. Footsteps reviews
The dance of a beautiful young woman, captured in words.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-11-06
32. The Rose reviews
Rated for sexual reference. About a soldier who discovers the physical beauty of the opposite sex and realizes that there is more to life than a uniform.
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-11-06
33. Pessimistic reviews
About one who cannot see the beauty in simple things.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-11-06
34. There are Eyes in the Cracks of the Street reviews
Sometimes it seems this town is against us...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-11-06
35. Sunrise reviews
A poem about late nights spent wandering the streets of our sleeping town.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-11-06
36. Parking Lots reviews
Will mankind continue to intrude upon nature? It is a sad, sad habit. And yes, I am aware of the change of tense in the middle of the story, though somewhat puzzled as to how that happened.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 656 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-11-06
37. Greater Than All reviews
About a girl who is so wonderful that her life preceeds all others'.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-9-06
38. As You Breathe Out reviews
A husband thinks on his wife's death.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-9-06
39. Sand by the Sea reviews
About a wandering spirit
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-9-06
40. Kept » reviews
A series of poems-an epic, if you will-about my girlfriend. Personal, some of it, so it may not be very accessible to strangers, but r 'n r anyway, please
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 9 - Words: 1,714 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-1-05
41. Worth Your Weight in Effort reviews
Loosely about an asassination attempt gone wrong, loosely on other sundry things
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-1-05
42. Blue and White reviews
I consider this my return to writing regularly. Slightly angry, slightly sad, and I wonder whether or not I should have classified it as a song. You tell me, I guess.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 252 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-23-05
43. Unisonic Silence reviews
In a world such as this one, nothing can exist that is pure...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-23-05
44. The One reviews
Yes, the poison summer has taken hold once more... and the angst poetry follows.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-27-05
45. Capitalization reviews
Rated for possibly offensive material. I wrote this while angry. Quite angry. Curse me for my blasphemy!
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6-25-05
46. Possibility Promises reviews
Wrote this while I was in a good, optimistic mood (which is rare). Short, I know, but it gets the point across.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-25-05
47. Wake the Dead reviews
Somewhat dark, a lot of sexual references. Make of it what you will.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-21-05
48. The End and memories of such reviews
An agreement goes horribly wrong, leading to loss of the main character's control over his own emotions.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-21-05
49. Breaking Down reviews
The story of a boy who can't seem to keep it all working right...
Poetry: Song - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-20-05
50. Chiroptera » reviews
This is a horror story. I can't tell you any more than that. Please read within for a complete explanation.
Fiction: Horror - Rated: T - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,780 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 6-18-05 - Published: 6-16-05
51. Tell Me reviews
Tell me, can you see the end from here?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-12-05
52. Conflagration reviews
When the world seems too corrupt...
Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 204 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-12-05
53. This Heat reviews
Well... this is about someone being extremely angry at someone else's apparent ignorance, but even more angry at the fact that the person is only faking ignorance to hide something
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-7-05
54. The Primary reviews
When you find that someone who you thought of as perfect isn't...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-6-05
55. Maturation reviews
A dead boy's spirit shares a few parting words with his girlfriend, and hopes that she has matured because of the experience of his death
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-5-05
56. The Stronghold reviews
This poem is based off of events from my novel "Apocalypse Rising" I have not posted this novel, though, so it won't make much sense to you.
Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Drama/Sci-Fi - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-5-05
57. Foresight reviews
We never really have foresight to disaster... I wish we did.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-5-05
58. Our Past reviews
About my ex-girlfriend. Rated for language.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6-4-05
59. The Worst of These reviews
About the people like me, the people who no longer remember normality or happiness. Not my best work, but it gets the point across.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-25-05
60. Crystal Clear reviews
About a day with my ex-girlfriend, a day that brought back painful memories
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 365 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-25-05
61. Last Shot Chamber reviews
I'm not really sure... it explains itself, I guess.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 329 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-9-05
62. Spider Webs reviews
A poem speaking of fate, the spider at the center of the web reffered to as life.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-3-05
63. The Letter reviews
A letter about someone trying to convince his friend not to commit suicide
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-28-05
64. Raindrop Eyes reviews
I fear I'm becoming redundant, and I'm trying to break this pattern.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-28-05
65. Just a Little Off Target reviews
My thoughts, what I wish I could say was true: that I accept all that has happened. Looking back at all that has led to this place.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 387 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-27-05
66. In Absence of the Muse reviews
Ha! even when I have no inspiration, I take that fact and use it as inspiration to write a poem about not having inspiration
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-20-05
67. Angel of Insert Desire Here » reviews
A story told backwards from chapter 7 to chapter 1, each chapter being one poem.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: M - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 349 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-17-05
68. Mine, the Happiest Funeral reviews
Thoughts of death, and how great it will be.
Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-17-05
69. Smiling reviews
A war time suicide poem. It explains itsself better than this summary
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-17-05
70. Derailing reviews
My life travels like a train on an oval track, and if I tried to twist the rails and make things interesting, the train would fly from its rails.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 432 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-10-05
71. It Hurt This Time reviews
No patterns, no planning on this one, just raw, unhindered emotion. The most passionate (to say the least) thing I've posted so far. Shows my darker side.
Poetry: Life - Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 743 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-9-05
72. Action of Consciousness reviews
My words are useless unless they move at least one person to take action.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-8-05
73. Fine Wine Beauty reviews
"As my jaws close around your neck / Beautiful before, you stun me now / Nightmares... Yes, indeed we are" The poem speaks for itself
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Horror/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-7-05
74. PostClimax of Pain and Suffering reviews
When shall the pain finally climax and begin deescalating? (is that a real word)
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-6-05
75. Repetition of Insanity reviews
Each day seems like a carbon copy of the last... and the only ones who can say they are happy are the ones who ignore the truth.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-6-05
76. Soul Mirrors reviews
Inner eyelids show to me the reflection of my own sadnessl
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-6-05
77. Preview of Apocalypse Rising reviews
From the point of view of a teenage girl named Jen. This is the ONLY chapter of this story I will be posting. It is part of my novel, that I hope to publish. Please tell me whether or not you like it.
Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,122 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 4-3-05
78. Fair reviews
I will get what I deserve in life, but who is it that decides my sentence?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-31-05
79. The Stranger Path reviews
Sad, suicidal thoughts...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-28-05
80. Good Dealer Cheated reviews
Thinking about the past... one of the most fun to write.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-28-05
81. The Fallen Angel reviews
The first poem written in a style I'm experimenting with. About HER, of course (sort of). Please tell me what you think.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-28-05
82. Fault reviews
A commanding officer explains to his deceased squad why he deliberately sent them into a losing battle, and looks positively at the fact that they are all dead.
Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 280 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-9-05
83. My Own
I believe my own to be perfect, and I see her within my dreams...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Published: 3-9-05
84. The Fate of Mind
The first real poem I wrote, that kickstarted my love of writing. Broken Glass sort of spawned from this
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Published: 3-8-05
85. Treasury of Innocence
Maturity kills happiness, simple as that. Has nothing to do with Theft of Innocence
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Published: 3-8-05
86. Conceptual Love reviews
She and Her. Unnamed, they are but the core concept of love. But they only exist in such a pure state in unnatainable dreams.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-7-05
87. Beauty reviews
True beauty trancends appearance, and few are truly beautiful.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-7-05
88. Life reviews
What could be accomplished, if we could only put away the past?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-7-05
89. At a Glance reviews
There are some things you just can't see with the eyes. A modest poem that I wrote during a boring school day.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-05
90. If I Tried
If we just tried, many things would be possible.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Published: 2-28-05
91. Fallen
I have lost all that is important. But somehow, I must rebuild my life
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Published: 2-28-05
92. Plea of Insanity reviews
PG for some Violence. This is merely the story of a very confused person
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 277 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-28-05
93. Theft of Innocence reviews
A poem about a primarily sexual relationship I had with a girl who was two years older than me, and what I took from her.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-28-05
94. Broken Glass reviews
A poem about a boy whose girlfriend gets killed in a car accident, and how he deals with it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-27-05
95. One Week Late reviews
Rated PG for some sexual reference. I wrote this while thinking about my sexual encounters with my last girlfriend, and what would have happened if they went wrong.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 178 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-27-05
96. Poison reviews
How would you feel if you were separated from someone you had known for years-and they didn't miss you?
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 202 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 2-27-05