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1. Confessional reviews

bless me, father, for I have sinned - or Have I? A conflicted blow for liberty.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-14-09 - Complete

2. Luka reviews

To all you Suzanne Vega fans out there - a poem for my Luka.

Poetry: Family - Rated: M - English - Horror/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-14-09 - Complete

3. To A Teacher

When I couldn't stand the slideshows any longer.

Poetry: School - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Published: 4-14-09 - Complete

4. Battlefield Compact reviews

In Band of Brothers, episode 5 "Crossroads" , Winters exchanges a gaze with a German youth, then kills him. This poem is about that look.

Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-11-08 - Complete

5. Ma Tete Coule

Un petit poeme que j'ai ecrit en classe hier. Des fois je deviens silencieuse et ne bouges pas, sans raison...voici un description de cette experience.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - French - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Published: 6-11-08 - Complete

6. Seattle copychange

La Jolla is a rotten candy bar. Seattle is a geode.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Published: 6-10-08 - Complete

7. Sonnet Moon

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Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Published: 4-25-08 - Complete

8. Order reviews

Stream-of-consciousness expounding upon the word "order." "Ten little dominoes, standing in a line, someone taps the trigger and the world goes MAD"

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Crime/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 306 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-25-08 - Complete

9. Seattle with brevity

You'd never think, to look at the surface...

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Published: 4-25-08 - Complete

10. Cafe Grande

A story about a coffee shop, innocent young faces, and linguistic musings add up to a memory differently recounted than remembered.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Published: 2-9-08 - Complete

11. In The Absence reviews

His precious wild scent etches my hands with memories, devoured here by greedy nostrils in the absence of its source.

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-9-08 - Complete

12. Glass, Soul, Fire reviews

I watch the sun, of life and dreams, set from behind glass, of insulated separation, and cry at its passing. ..This one is not conducive to synopses. Many lonely tears went into it it's worth a minute of your time..

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 586 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-2-08 - Complete

13. Bloodink, Soulwords reviews

I am the tempestuous stallion, flayed out by a hundred different ropes. My only link to sanity is the blood that spills from my pen.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-2-08 - Complete

14. Wildfire reviews

California burns. Sage smoke drifts from my canyons, demons taunt the defenders, and it is hell.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-2-08 - Complete

15. Concrete Steps and a Sunset

Ghosts of global catastrophes cling to my shadow, daring me to enjoy myself. The only thing that drives them off is the embrace of one besieged by the same.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Published: 11-17-07 - Complete

16. Longing

Inadequacy, independence, chains of the past, humanity, and stars.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Published: 11-17-07 - Complete

17. Slave

There's a picture in my textbook of a slave in a loincloth, sitting on a rough pier, wrists and neck chained, enclosed in a net. He's staring straight at the camera. And his eyes...his eyes are not those of chattel.

Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Published: 11-17-07 - Complete

18. 7:32 am reviews

On the concrete steps I pause, savoring the goosebumps on my arms and the autumn crisp in my nostrils.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-21-07 - Complete

19. Dormant

Sweet incarnation of dormant desires, I'd almost rather have not reawakened my ache for the dreams I'm denied.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Published: 10-5-07 - Complete

20. Sip reviews

My first taste of anarchy.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-5-07 - Complete

21. Mistake reviews

The circumstances under which I blew the best opportunity of my life. I know not why I did it to this day: I looked him in the eye and turned away.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-23-07 - Complete

22. Rosebush reviews

This tangled intractable mess really has no right to reside in my heart but for the roses.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-22-07 - Complete

23. Nice Shot reviews

I waited ages for this moment, this impossible instant where, against all hope, he pulled me to him.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-22-07 - Complete

24. Humanity

A streamofconsciousness poem: words, ashes, symphonies, and humanity.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Published: 9-22-07 - Complete

25. Revolt

Do not go gently into that waiting box, for that will be your life a treadmill and a dangling carrot.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Published: 9-22-07 - Complete

26. Wonder

I do not know from whence come my words. I do not know why, when I touch ink to paper, letters flow that rend hearts. The poems were here long before I was. All I provide is the pen.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Published: 8-20-07 - Complete

27. We Slip Together reviews

We slip together, . sliding easily into glass . and softness . and no one knows we're here.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-20-07 - Complete

28. Anatomy of a Fiasco

Shackle devolving, explosive chaos. . Drag it, writhing and collapsing, . into the steely exam room. . Slice with nerveless fingers through . the outer skin of calamity . and begin.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Published: 8-5-07 - Complete

29. I Have a Secret reviews

One day the war will be over. And we will be left to rebuild.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-29-07

30. Dyes Inlet on a Grey Day reviews

The water out my classroom window is a color I've not seen before, speaking of oceans and storms and helplessness, though it's only a calm, green, tidebound inlet.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-16-07

31. A Dry, Warm, Breeze

Take me back to the place of my memories...and watch my cultivated smile shatter in the torrent of history.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Published: 6-16-07

32. Today I Want reviews

Is a little distance, a little sanity, a little peace, too much to ask in this world?

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-16-07 - Complete

33. Chime reviews

5minute poem, inspired by the word chime. No editing. About a plangent windchime that has followed my family all over the country, accumulating our memories.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-16-07 - Complete

34. Humanize, Don't Ostracize reviews

Rhyme, rhyme, rhythm, and more rhyme. But at least it's rhyme with a message.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-16-07 - Complete

35. Stardust reviews

From dust to dust we fall, thriving only in the moment of ancient reflection and newborn thoughts, spilling ourselves through stitched lips in patterns of eternal stardust.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-11-07 - Complete

36. Brown Coat reviews

I don't know his name. I hardly saw his face. But for a second he was there, curled against the world's cruelties, and I wish him peace.

Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-12-07 - Complete

37. Night

Through all our banally human mess...starlight calls.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10 - Published: 5-12-07 - Complete

38. A Passing of Hours reviews

We fall and spin and supernova . the cosmos burns with us.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-12-07 - Complete

39. Maasai

Cherished elders you came, you spoke, and you entranced me with a glance. Welcome, friends. Sit. Stay awhile. Tell me stories.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Published: 5-12-07 - Complete

40. Strange Thoughts Occur at Midnight

Surreality in dark places. Don't try to make much sense of it.

Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

41. Solitude

Copychange of Ironbound by Suzanne Vega. Not the original plan I had for this one, but I like it. A poet doesn't want to return from the peacful green to face the masses.

Poetry: Song - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Published: 4-28-07

42. Spring Has Sprung

And what a glorious spring it is, too, chasing off the brooding blankets that have encased us for long, dreary months. Come celebrate!

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

43. Don't Fault Me

Let me stay quiet in the chaos. Let me protect myself from the barrage of noise. Let me be insulated when exposure means death. Don't fault me for my silence.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

44. Beauty

Short and simple. Why do arbitrary shapes of face dictate attention in our world?

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

45. Strewnpaper Life

Different from my other stuff. It's spread scattered bare smeared all over my world like papers strewn on swiftly tilting tables...

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

46. Afghan Scarf reviews

One of my best, according to some readers. This is the story of a scarf told through the lives of its makers. This summary is crap, but I promise the poem isn't. I'd really appreciate reviews on this one. Or at least hits. Please.

Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 794 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-28-07 - Complete

47. The Insurgent Daughter Speaks! reviews

For once in my short life, I stood up to my parents. I should be allowed to go to Prom with her. There are no two ways about it.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-20-07 - Complete

48. The Sunset Rises reviews

Words of surreal color sweep through my ears, freeing my caged heart to their sunset song.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-20-07 - Complete

49. My Song

What can I sing of, trapped in my vortex?

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 325 - Published: 3-20-07 - Complete

50. Source reviews

When I reach down into myself, deep to the well my words spring from, what is it my parched pen finds?

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-20-07 - Complete

51. Gone To a War Zone

I quake in my deepest hidden places . when he laces . combat boots around his calves . and tucks a pistol into his belt.

Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Published: 3-20-07 - Complete

52. Cliff's Edge

Here I cling, gasping, grasping, praying that the powers that be will leave you in peace to me.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Published: 3-5-07

53. Ageless Heresy

One corpse cuts through the fog of war.

Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Published: 2-20-07 - Complete

54. Ambient Seduction

Calls from the world of superficiality.

Poetry: School - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Published: 2-16-07 - Complete

55. Tentative Sometimes reviews

, this illusion of control.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-16-07 - Complete

56. soldier dreams reviews

sweating, shaking, body quaking, starting, waking, never free for my father.

Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-5-07 - Complete

57. Lament for a Mother reviews

What did she do to deserve this at our hands, those of her children this paving, this raping, this sealing of her coffin deep in almostlost, soonforgotten, neverrecovered?

Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-31-07 - Complete

58. SCA reviews

The Society for Creative Anachronism the people who organize renaissance fairs sounds like a lot of intelligent fun. But, no matter how tantalizing, I refuse to join. This is why, and it has to do with a certain him.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 196 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-29-07 - Complete

59. Worn Desk reviews

Nothing to make you consider the history of the world and your place in it like a beatup old wooden desk.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-29-07 - Complete

60. Beyond Your Keep reviews

Arms wide, reaching high . seeking frozen sky . he lies cold, asleep . gone beyond your keep. The tune is haunting and gorgeous, not of my composing, but unconveyable on a computer screen. Enjoy anyway. Please RR, as I don't usually write songs.

Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-29-07 - Complete

61. Silent as Tendrils reviews

I'm here, watching. They'll never know, tumbling through a stationary boulder's world.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-16-07 - Complete

62. Demise reviews

That of a climbing tree, and that of childish innocence.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-16-07 - Complete

63. Shattered reviews

A small poem about small pieces of a heart, and the small, loving wind that tries to heal them.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-5-07 - Complete

64. Smoke Rising, Snow Falling reviews

Reflections on winter from a tropicized window.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-26-06 - Complete

65. Christmas Eve: Lessons of Love reviews

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Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 473 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-26-06 - Complete

66. Colors reviews

Such odd, myriad shades, painting and shadowing and tinting the blank page of our lives.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 57 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-26-06 - Complete

67. Chalice reviews

I'm sure I'm not to only UU to have posted my own chalicelighting words on this site, though it may be rare. If you know what I was referring to, or even if you don't, please read. Maybe it'll give you an idea.

Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-12-06 - Complete

68. Dark's Embrace reviews

Along the lines of Invitation. The call of peace and release from burden is a powerful one, and beautiful, and quiet.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-12-06 - Complete

69. Collapse reviews

Pride and decadent glory goeth before a fall. Oh, and what a fall it is, and has always been, and, it seems, always will be. But don't worry too much, civilization always gets another chance.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-12-06 - Complete

70. The Watching Eyes of Heaven reviews

The lives, loves, fights, and deaths of two young revolutionaries in a world unforgiving of their rebellion. Inspired by a scene which persisted in my head for months of two young men, one dead, the other sobbing, in a forest surrounded by monstrous sold

Fiction: Sci-Fi - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,193 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-29-06 - Complete

71. Shh, shh reviews

I can't bring myself to tell anyone my problems, so I write poems to myself to comfort me.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-17-06 - Complete

72. Dream or Soulmates

Thank the PLAN test for giving me time to write this. How to summarize it...in an altered plain, beneath a single tree, a silent soul is waiting for me. Until we meet, neither of us can ever be complete.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Published: 11-15-06 - Complete

73. Infant Promise reviews

Last weekend I babysat for a threemonthold for the first time in a very long time. It was...a bit of a moving experience. Such sweet, gentle baby eyes, little baby naps and snores and gurgles, another link in a chain of maternity stretching from one end

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-15-06 - Complete

74. Pen reviews

A small ode to my companion in creativity.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-15-06 - Complete

75. Summer Nights

There was a girl. A sweet, beautiful, caring, intelligent girl, who the world enjoyed figuratively ripping to shreds. She and I spent some time together this past summer. Written by me or no, this is hers.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Published: 11-15-06 - Complete

76. Inequity reviews

Confusion, death, tears, blood, greed...there are no right answers anymore, and it's just another day.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-10-06 - Complete

77. Memories and Math Tests reviews

Intoxicating memories of a lifechanging youth retreat tend to make it rather difficult to study for an FST test back in the real world...AN: No flames for the circumstances portrayed in this, please. The right or wrongness of my sexuality is not your co

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 292 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

78. Silence reviews

Somewhat like Fog, small and simple. Please enjoy.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

79. Death of a Dove reviews

Chains of lies and cruel deceptionStomp the burning, salted woundThe open people cry for quarterDesperate for a drink of water

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

80. Alliterative Embrace

Written, not surprisingly, as we were doing alliteration in English. However, this was entirely meinspired. Short and surreal but sweet.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

81. Fear the Dark

Everyone called you a baby for doing so...but there are reasons...Let the cries betray the dark.Who yet will stand to answer?

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

82. Mousling

Isn't that all we'll ever end up being? A small, fuzzy, curled little mouse corpse in a universe that couldn't care less?

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Published: 10-20-06 - Complete

83. Pour La Première Fois

Un petit poem d'amour que j'ai écrit pour ma class de Français.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Published: 10-4-06

84. Degeneration

Alas, the fate preordained for all young, ambitious, upstart societies. (I think the US is between stage 3 and 4.) Unusual, I think, please r/r.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Published: 10-4-06

85. Indian Summer reviews

It was a mythically beautiful day after a week of gloom and rain. So the day was spent in the best possible way for fall mornings to be spent: pressing fresh, sweet apple cider.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 191 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-24-06

86. Passion reviews

A description of how I'd imagine real passion to be. Perhaps unusual, maybe a bit surreal. I'd be interested in opinions.

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-12-06

87. Rob's Poem reviews

One of the few poems I couldn't choose a good title for. It's dedicated to my love Rob, and describes him perfectly. I can't ask for more than he is.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-12-06

88. Invitation reviews

A contemplative, peaceful-seeming poem that actually incorporates ideas about suicide, loss of individualism, death, children, apathism, and counterintuitive aspects thereof. Distantly based on a walk on the beach I took the other day. I'd be interested

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 338 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-10-06

89. See How I See reviews

Am I the only one who sees a desperate need for change in this world?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-30-06

90. Mob Mentality reviews

bob your head (because he bobs his head)/nod you head (to fit in with the crowd)/shake your head (you are here, so you follow)/break your head (you are one with the mob)

Poetry: War - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-30-06

91. I Am Me reviews

Independence is a good thing. Think for yourself, no matter how much others work to engrave their beliefs in your brain. Be YOU. And I'll be me.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-30-06

92. Selfish reviews

A contemplation on the etymological connotations of the word "selfish"

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 8-30-06

93. Lost Innocence reviews

A highly personal poem. I did things I should not have done, and I knew it at the time. I do not want to be like this .

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-7-06

94. Puppy reviews

So there's this dog I know. Can't find the stupid stick to save his life, even when he actually trips over it... It's rather funny to watch, actually.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-30-06

95. Joy on a Driftwood Shore reviews

It is such fun to jump and clamber over acres of driftwood... :)

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-30-06

96. The Glowspots, the Stars, and the Ocean, and Me

Off a small island in the Queen Charlottes, there is a very special type of algae that, when agitated, glows in a brilliant Indigloesque phosphorescence. Swimming in this under the clearest sky you'll ever see is, in a word, magical.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Published: 7-25-06 - Complete

97. Blessing reviews

A dear friend of mine, a Suquamish girl, has a hard life and always has. But there is so much she can do that she doesn't realize yet. This is what I wish for her.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-25-06

98. Once reviews

Once there was happiness, love, joy. Now only an echoing silence resounds through these halls.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-13-06

99. First Think, Then Fight! reviews

Look around at the world we live in. Someone needs to stand up for what they believe in: Freedom. Justice. Equality. Truth. (R/R please, I return the favor.)

Poetry: Politics - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-13-06

100. Crab Tank

Perhaps oversentimental and illogical, but what can I say, those little eyes got to me. Why should they be trapped for our whim?

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Published: 7-7-06

101. Sweetheart reviews

So maybe it's corny and maybe you aren't supposed to publish poetry that's about the first time you spent alone with your new boyfriend, but it has an interesting rhyme scheme. :) please r/r

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-1-06

102. Dear Sir reviews

My response to a particularly offensive forum poster. "T" for language quotes from him. I'd be interested to hear what anyone thinks...ah, the revenge of a poet is sweet.

Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6-27-06

103. Young Love

Ah, the fickleness of young love.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Published: 6-24-06

104. Seattle reviews

A love poem to the people of Seattle, my favorite city in the world. Many experiences are encapsulated here. "Walk into my life and out/But leave me with your footprints/And a longing to know your story."

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 831 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-19-06

105. Deeper reviews

So you see me. So what? I'm just another girl, right?

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-13-06

106. To Whom It May Concern reviews

I no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at school, and this is why. Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, hate mail, anything that means you are thinking. I'll try to answer anything and I'm happy to debate.

Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 319 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 6-9-06

107. BubbleMan

Ask no questions, tell no lies./Never long to see the skies./Freedom is the price you pay/To live to see another day. Please read, and if you agree, review saying you do please.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 234 - Published: 6-9-06

108. Winking Fractured CrystalStones

This is a little poem about some beads on a bracelet my boyfriend gave me. They look pretty, but unimpressive, until the light hits them at just the right angle, where they glint and flash like opals.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Published: 6-5-06

109. Literary Awakening

Musings on the nature of real life vs. illusion.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Published: 6-1-06

110. Fight reviews

I fight for what I believe in, and what I believe the earth must become for the young ones. We are on the wrong path. And our children will pay.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-26-06

111. the angel in black vs the shadowy world

I have no shoulder deities./I am too many shades of grey for that./I do have an internal war,/Different from the external one/Where I know what side I'm on.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 292 - Published: 5-25-06

112. Unite

It's really much easier not to artificially divide ourselves. Where's the harm in compliments as banter as opposed to insults?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Published: 5-25-06

113. Draft Horses and Weasels reviews

I will not turn the gears of corruption any longer.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-23-06

114. Dedicated To All The Graf Writers reviews

Dedicated To All The Graf Writers Whose Art Was Dismissed As Filth is the full title. That pretty much says it all.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 395 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-20-06

115. On A Seaside Hill reviews

I saw upon a hill a sign/Of ancient mastery./The crumblings of a queen who stood/In tender majesty.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-20-06

116. Dance! reviews

Life is here. Why not be happy about it?

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-6-06

117. Celebration at Night reviews

Sometimes the best thing is to let yourself go, lose yourself in the stars, and spin.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-6-06

118. Love's Hell

A Frost-style poem about the exquisite torture of loving two people. But, as it always is, the heart is beaten down into submission. One, or the other, but not both.

Poetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Published: 4-27-06

119. Words reviews

So many crowding around, mumbling, bumbling, unconscious of their worth...until the first one steps up.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-27-06

120. Joy in Beauty reviews

I know that this poem makes very little sense, but I was just putting words down. I like it anyway, and hope you do too.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-27-06

121. Forget reviews

What to say when it tortures someone you love to think of you...

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-27-06

122. Crying Sky

lies die/try to fly/nothing but a/crying sky

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Published: 4-16-06

123. Tipping Point reviews

In your hands lies the fate of the world, on November 2, 2000.

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-14-06

124. Who Are You Sad For? reviews

Weep for the children who will inherit this earth. Do your best to fix it before their time. (A thinly veiled sociopolitical commentary. Please R/R.)

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 199 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-14-06

125. Veils of Hardship reviews

Sometimes when things are just not going well, we need to look beyond the clouds.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-7-06

126. Do You Hear That?

Do you hear the sands of time slipping through the world's fingers like water? Do you know what is gone?

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Published: 4-7-06

127. Swing reviews

Sometimes something or someone in your life is lost, and you are lost without it.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-7-06

128. Feel

Someday I will meet someone. For that someone, I will do something I have not been able to do since I was two.

Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Published: 4-7-06

129. Anoint Yourselves

About how we are not doing so well on the long-term survival list. This was an excercise in putting down whatever came to mind, a la Dead Poets Society.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Published: 3-22-06

130. Afterdeath reviews

What happens after one drifts into the bleak abyss of death...

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-22-06

131. To Rest In Spring reviews

Spring is a good time to rest, to sleep, even to die. For my ailing granddad. Please R/R.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-19-06

132. Heartbeat reviews

"Listen to the beat/To the drums in the heat/Breathe, and let the rhythm take control of your feet" Along the lines of "The Bells," a rhythmic exercise about the beat that connects us all. Please R/R.

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 314 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-14-06

133. Refuse

Do not let the world rule you, and you may change the world. Please R/R

Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Published: 3-8-06

134. Angel's Eyes

Part love poem, part real question... What color would an angel's eyes be? Please R/R

Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 209 - Published: 3-7-06

135. Shape the Sky reviews

An excercise in expressing things creatively. "Scatter handfuls of water-dust to lend substance to the ebony floor/Kindle the sun-ember each morning " Please R/R

Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-5-06

136. Heroines reviews

A girl somehow survives in a deserted land. Is she normal? Is she even human? Please R/R

Fiction: Horror - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 545 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-5-06

137. The Wandering Minstrel reviews

A small poem about, you guessed it, a wandering bard.

Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

138. Thank You

What does it mean to be loved?

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Published: 3-2-06

139. Phantom

Dreaming about my long-distance boyfriend.

Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Published: 3-2-06

140. Pass On

Time always passes...

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Published: 3-2-06

141. Laundry Basket II reviews

What will it mean to come of age?

Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-2-06

142. Laundry Basket reviews

Average teenage thought about parents.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

143. Knowledge

What knowledge really matters?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 3-2-06

144. I Am A Soldier reviews

A soldier is torn between what he must do and revulsion at his job. Realistic.

Poetry: War - Rated: M - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

145. Dust's Prayer

My religion, of a sort: "These myths attempt to bring us vague relief/From knowledge that we are as specks of dust"

Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Published: 3-2-06

146. Distractions

An excercise in alliteration done when I should have been writing an essay...

Poetry: Work - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Published: 3-2-06

147. Captain reviews

A metaphorical exploration of high school graduation.

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

148. Bus Stop

A woman waits for her daugher.

Poetry: Family - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Published: 3-2-06

149. Ants reviews

We are like ants.

Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

150. Entreaty reviews

Have you ever really looked at the stars?

Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 653 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-2-06

151. Life Is A River

Last fall I had the most wonderful weekend of my life.

Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 336 - Published: 3-2-06