1. a different kind of gothic romance reviews
she crawled across my fingertips, murmuring memories of houses aflame Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-29-06 - Published: 10-29-06 2. 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: 10-29-06 3. untitled III reviews
I 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: 10-5-06 4. Lovely reviews
Four years old, curls of gold and the bluest eyes you'll ever see General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-23-06 - Published: 9-23-06 5. 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: 1 - Updated: 9-14-06 - Published: 9-14-06 6. 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: 3 - Updated: 9-11-06 - Published: 9-11-06 7. pygmalion reviews
- it's not betrayal if you're unrequited Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-7-06 - Published: 9-7-06 8. we are a poem in the rough reviews
I always wondered how stubble would feel beneath my lips. Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 27 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-4-06 - Published: 9-4-06 9. blueshift reviews
I am found. Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-29-06 - Published: 8-29-06 10. 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: 8-24-06 11. invocation on an urn reviews
- look beyond the worldframe Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-24-06 - Published: 8-24-06 12. 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: 8-24-06 14. Nine O'Clock in Gaithersburg reviews
Of 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: 8-18-06 15. A Matter of Endearments reviews
Here 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: 8-7-06 16. This Was Beauty: When Women Wore Curves reviews
Once 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: 7-28-06 17. Elaine » reviews
Four 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: 5-15-06 18. Freckles reviews
strange the memories that stay with you Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-22-06 - Published: 7-22-06 19. untitled II reviews
when 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: 7-22-06 20. One Way Coventry reviews
When all is said and done... Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-1-06 - Published: 7-1-06 21. Noctivagant reviews
The 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: 6-28-06 22. Transcending Saturday reviews
Graduation 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: 6-10-06 23. Samsara reviews
He 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: 6-10-06 24. Untitled reviews
sometimes the written word can be so limiting Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-9-06 - Published: 6-9-06 25. gira y canta reviews
flamen juventas, you stand too close Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-3-06 - Published: 6-3-06 26. Central Pennsylvanian Baptism reviews
Don'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: 5-29-06 27. Canticle reviews
Ever 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: 5-12-06 28. Oiseau Rebelle reviews
Inspired 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: 5-11-06 29. Nocturne reviews
I must have been dreaming... Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-06 - Published: 5-7-06 30. Little Boy Blue reviews
love 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: 4-30-06 31. Brambles reviews
Society'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: 4-25-06 32. Amor Vincit Insomnia reviews
how easy it is to numb the edges, to blur the pain preceding genius Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-06 33. Vis a Vis reviews
they, together: a p a r t, and bound Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-24-06 - Published: 4-24-06 34. Yellow reviews
The 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: 4-9-06 35. Heptastich reviews
Sing 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: 4-7-06 36. Ask Not reviews
Calpurnia, 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: 4-7-06 37. Silhouettes reviews
If 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: 4-6-06 38. Wrought reviews
Enough is enough. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-3-06 - Published: 4-3-06 39. 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: 4-3-06 40. 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: 4-1-06 41. la nana: drafting gods reviews
One 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: 3-30-06 42. Wedgwood reviews
Sometimes 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: 3-25-06 43. Achromatic reviews
Sometimes 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: 3-19-06 44. Valediction reviews
I think I may miss this place. General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 275 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-19-06 - Published: 3-19-06 45. ángelos reviews
Wings 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: 3-14-06 46. Cezanne reviews
There'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: 3-9-06 47. Grazed Knees reviews
What a pretty winding sheet this preconception is. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 198 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 3-9-06 - Published: 3-9-06 48. Icarus reviews
Free 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: 3-9-06 49. Aphonic Immolation reviews
If 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: 3-7-06 50. Lapsus Linguae reviews
She'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: 3-6-06 51. We Can Do It! reviews
Yellow 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: 3-5-06 52. Tirra Lirra reviews
A 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: 2-28-06 53. Mea Culpa reviews
Quite 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: 3 - Updated: 2-23-06 - Published: 2-23-06 54. Peregrine reviews
For 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: 2-23-06 55. Artemis Vacillant reviews
like Morpheus in the snow. General - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-22-06 - Published: 2-22-06 56. Romaunt reviews
Vermillion 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: 2-14-06 57. Oneiros: A Lullaby reviews
At 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: 2-7-06 58. The Lady of Situations reviews
Another 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: 2-4-06 59. Anavriti Shabdat: Liberation by Sound » reviews
A 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: 1-22-06 60. La Fille Qui Pleure reviews
They always say fear serves to protect. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 1-21-06 - Published: 1-21-06 61. Bruises reviews
This is the darkest it's ever gotten. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-21-06 - Published: 1-21-06 62. Please reviews
It'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: 1-21-06 63. Redshift II reviews
He 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: 1-19-06 64. Redshift reviews
Am 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: 1-18-06 65. Coronach reviews
Requiescat 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: 1-16-06 66. 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: 1-6-06 67. Du'a reviews
An 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: 1-6-06 68. Smoke Signals reviews
It 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: 1-6-06 69. Blueshift II reviews
Snowdrop 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: 1-5-06 70. 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: 1-2-06 71. Viva Bohemia reviews
He knows I'm afraid of the dark. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-30-05 - Published: 12-30-05 72. Je Ne Comprends reviews
And 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: 12-30-05 73. Throw the Baby In reviews
Good morning, graduation day. Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-23-05 - Published: 12-23-05 74. Just Another Love Story reviews
She 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: 12-22-05 75. Both reviews
She 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: 12-21-05 76. Helios Falling reviews
One 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: 12-15-05 77. A Christmas Carol reviews
All 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: 12-14-05 78. Confessions of a Bibliophile reviews
My love affair with old books... General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 11-30-05 - Published: 11-30-05 79. Snow Beetle Butterfly Kisses reviews
What 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: 11-30-05 80. The Starling's Lament reviews
The 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 |
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