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Author has written 80 stories for General, Love, Life, Politics, Religion, Family, Friendship, and Biography. we are a poem in the rough - - and as imagination bodies forth | |||||||
1. a different kind of gothic romance reviewsshe crawled across my fingertips, murmuring memories of houses aflameComplete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-29-06 - Published: 10-29-062. ut pictura poesis reviews...'as in painting, so in poetry.' How to begin a poem when the subject no longer exists?Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-29-06 - Published: 10-29-063. untitled III reviewsI feel your bones in the stone beneath my feet.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-06 - Published: 10-5-064. Lovely reviewsFour years old, curls of gold and the bluest eyes you'll ever seeGeneral - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-23-06 - Published: 9-23-065. it's raining again in manhattan reviews- lines composed on the Staten Island Ferry. "half-finished, never-completed- what sadder fate could there be"Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-14-06 - Published: 9-14-066. vespers reviews- here, this is more. an ode to the divine as found in nature.Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-11-06 - Published: 9-11-067. pygmalion reviews- it's not betrayal if you're unrequitedLove - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-7-06 - Published: 9-7-068. we are a poem in the rough reviewsI always wondered how stubble would feel beneath my lips.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-4-06 - Published: 9-4-069. blueshift reviewsI am found.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-29-06 - Published: 8-29-0610. never never land reviews- sisterly devotion, a study in light and dark.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-0611. invocation on an urn reviews- look beyond the worldframeLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-0612. it's a slippery slope reviews- but we're only human.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-0613. good night sweet ladies good night reviewsOphelia drowns.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-20-06 - Published: 8-20-0614. Nine O'Clock in Gaithersburg reviewsOf finding the pulse of the earth even in the city, and acknowledging the most basic of all loves.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-18-06 - Published: 8-18-0615. A Matter of Endearments reviewsHere and now I forswear the endearments I've crafted you with such love over the years.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-7-06 - Published: 8-7-0616. This Was Beauty: When Women Wore Curves reviewsOnce upon a time, woman was considered beautiful without having to squeeze, starve, and otherwise beat her body into the perfect shape. What happened?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-28-06 - Published: 7-28-0617. Elaine » reviewsFour grey walls and four grey towers overlook a space of flowers...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 5 - Words: 411 - Reviews: 18 - Updated: 7-26-06 - Published: 5-15-0618. Freckles reviewsstrange the memories that stay with youFriendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-22-06 - Published: 7-22-0619. untitled II reviewswhen you can taste your pulse at the back of your mouth -Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-22-06 - Published: 7-22-0620. One Way Coventry reviewsWhen all is said and done...Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-1-06 - Published: 7-1-0621. Noctivagant reviewsThe moon, hanging from the bough of stars, melts with the pull of the tide.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-28-06 - Published: 6-28-0622. Transcending Saturday reviewsGraduation looms (he calls it the end of the world).Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-10-06 - Published: 6-10-0623. Samsara reviewsHe is the source and the mouth and the hand that fails to blot the sky from being.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-10-06 - Published: 6-10-0624. Untitled reviewssometimes the written word can be so limitingLove - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-9-06 - Published: 6-9-0625. gira y canta reviewsflamen juventas, you stand too closeLife - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-3-06 - Published: 6-3-0626. Central Pennsylvanian Baptism reviewsDon't judge a poem by its title. (Spiritual, not religious.)Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-29-06 - Published: 5-29-0627. Canticle reviewsEver felt like part of you was missing, but soon to be discovered?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-12-06 - Published: 5-12-0628. Oiseau Rebelle reviewsInspired in part by Bizet's Carmen: 'L'amour est une oiseau rebelle' (love is a rebellious bird).Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-11-06 - Published: 5-11-0629. Nocturne reviewsI must have been dreaming...Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-06 - Published: 5-7-0630. Little Boy Blue reviewslove love love he prelects (but Morpheus is such a determined flirt).Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-30-06 - Published: 4-30-0631. Brambles reviewsSociety's strictures betray the heart's desires (she was born two decades too late).Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-25-06 - Published: 4-25-0632. Amor Vincit Insomnia reviewshow easy it is to numb the edges, to blur the pain preceding geniusLove - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-0633. Vis a Vis reviewsthey, together: a p a r t, and boundLove - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-0634. Yellow reviewsThe cracks in the ceiling are whispering secrets from the corners of their generous mouths.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-9-06 - Published: 4-9-0635. Heptastich reviewsSing me out of this gray, and I will sing you manifest.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-0636. Ask Not reviewsCalpurnia, Calpurnia, get the door. Part Five of The Icarus Suite.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-0637. Silhouettes reviewsIf she screams at the sky, will he still hear it? Fourth in The Icarus Suite, but you don't need to read the first three to get it.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-6-06 - Published: 4-6-0638. Wrought reviewsEnough is enough.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-0639. she calls herself ariel reviews"...and wonders if she has stumbled across a metaphor." The product of reading too much Lorca and Plath simultaneously.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-0640. Some Hundred Miles: For Musaeus reviews...on his nineteenth birthday. Go n-eírí an bóthar leat... may the road rise with you.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-1-06 - Published: 4-1-0641. la nana: drafting gods reviewsOne by one, she gathers dropped quills. Third in the Icarus Suite.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-30-06 - Published: 3-30-0642. Wedgwood reviewsSometimes it's so easy to forget to breathe.Biography - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 386 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-25-06 - Published: 3-25-0643. Achromatic reviewsSometimes she finds solace in those gray wastelands of existence.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-19-06 - Published: 3-19-0644. Valediction reviewsI think I may miss this place.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-19-06 - Published: 3-19-0645. ángelos reviewsWings are not apportioned to ill-starred Grecians alone. Second in the Icarus Suite.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-14-06 - Published: 3-14-0646. Cezanne reviewsThere's a reason, he said, that all the best are tormented.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-9-06 - Published: 3-9-0647. Grazed Knees reviewsWhat a pretty winding sheet this preconception is.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-9-06 - Published: 3-9-0648. Icarus reviewsFree of those icaruswinged words (he says they taste of rubber and soul), greekfire spills through and burns away the night.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-9-06 - Published: 3-9-0649. Aphonic Immolation reviewsIf she could only unlock her breastbone, open the ribcage cloistercell and spill its contents at his feet, maybe he would descry the light leaking from her pores. (Sometimes words just aren't enough).Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-7-06 - Published: 3-7-0650. Lapsus Linguae reviewsShe's choking on what could have been... (forgive me, love).Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 3-6-06 - Published: 3-6-0651. We Can Do It! reviewsYellow roses and red bandanas... and she's disappointed them again.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-5-06 - Published: 3-5-0652. Tirra Lirra reviewsA whimsical look at a love that hasn't come around just yet.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-28-06 - Published: 2-28-0653. Mea Culpa reviewsQuite old... written for English last year. A glimpse of one of my favorite characters, Rev. John Hale, post-Crucible.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-0654. Peregrine reviewsFor Kelle, the original review whore; turnabout is fair play. It's been a long time in the works. I'm sorry- I did my best.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 269 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-0655. Artemis Vacillant reviewslike Morpheus in the snow.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-22-06 - Published: 2-22-0656. Romaunt reviewsVermillion sunshine in my hand... an ode to the only part of Valentine's Day I like. The flowers.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-14-06 - Published: 2-14-0657. Oneiros: A Lullaby reviewsAt night, when the room is awash in indigo and slate, and the only sound is the sibilance of my breath and the hiss of leaves painting the roof silver, I can almost remember.Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-7-06 - Published: 2-7-0658. The Lady of Situations reviewsAnother inspired by Eliot. Did she see the Wheel on its head? Did you pull it from the pack, that fanged collection of prophecies stolen from stone-bound oracles? Or was it the Three of Wands?Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 237 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-4-06 - Published: 2-4-0659. Anavriti Shabdat: Liberation by Sound » reviewsA series of snippets that never amounted to full poems, but that I liked too much to abandon... if you have any ideas, please contact me!General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-3-06 - Published: 1-22-0660. La Fille Qui Pleure reviewsThey always say fear serves to protect.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-21-06 - Published: 1-21-0661. Bruises reviewsThis is the darkest it's ever gotten.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-21-06 - Published: 1-21-0662. Please reviewsIt's cold and dark and painful here (and I'm not really asking for that much).Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-21-06 - Published: 1-21-0663. Redshift II reviewsHe says my eyes are like river ice (and I know, no matter what they say, there's no such thing as forgive and forget).Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 1-19-06 - Published: 1-19-0664. Redshift reviewsAm I not more than you expected? Or just not what was advertised? (They don't sell reality in magazine ads)Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-18-06 - Published: 1-18-0665. Coronach reviewsRequiescat in pace, friend who might-have-been. Poem and short prose piece.General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-17-06 - Published: 1-16-0666. Belladonna reviews"This is the bitter wormwood that poisoned the beautiful dream; this is what killed Don Quixote, and now it is killing me." Please, please, PLEASE sign the One Declaration and help put an end to global poverty and AIDS.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-6-06 - Published: 1-6-0667. Du'a reviewsAn agnostic's supplication (do not send life preservers: my soul does not need saving, it just needs a map).Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 454 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 1-6-06 - Published: 1-6-0668. Smoke Signals reviewsIt all comes down to this, you said and pledged your soul to the bloodtearsandbullion. A collection of political commentary pieces. Liberal is NOT a swearword!Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-6-06 - Published: 1-6-0669. Blueshift II reviewsSnowdrop sunlight slants inward like a coquette's glance.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-5-06 - Published: 1-5-0670. The World Ends Tomorrow reviews"And I'm afraid this isn't a drill, not just smoke and sirens." Tried something new... not sure if it worked. Let me know what you think! Note: this is NOT to be taken seriously!Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 294 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-2-06 - Published: 1-2-0671. Viva Bohemia reviewsHe knows I'm afraid of the dark.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-30-05 - Published: 12-30-0572. Je Ne Comprends reviewsAnd je ne comprends le francais, she says, je ne comprends le francais.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-30-05 - Published: 12-30-0573. Throw the Baby In reviewsGood morning, graduation day.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-23-05 - Published: 12-23-0574. Just Another Love Story reviewsShe can't believe her green heart when it says he's looking at her.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 12-22-05 - Published: 12-22-0575. Both reviewsShe knows that somewhere-somewhen-somehow, someone is both (like those days when the squalid winter sun burns makes the earth's bedraggled ermine mantle gleam like crushed opals)Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 285 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-21-05 - Published: 12-21-0576. Helios Falling reviewsOne of those moments when I forget to breathe.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-15-05 - Published: 12-15-0577. A Christmas Carol reviewsAll I need's the patched hat and crutch / And this evening could not get / More Dickensian...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-14-05 - Published: 12-14-0578. Confessions of a Bibliophile reviewsMy love affair with old books...General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 11-30-05 - Published: 11-30-0579. Snow Beetle Butterfly Kisses reviewsWhat a lovely reincarnation day / for a finite phoenix like me!Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 11-30-05 - Published: 11-30-0580. The Starling's Lament reviewsThe Celtic myth of Bran and Branwen, told from the p.o.v. of the starling that carried Branwen's message back to Wales.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-19-05 - Published: 11-19-05
