| glimpses from an ivory tower |
Author has written 64 stories for General, Life, Nature, Religion, Love, Friendship, Family, Politics, Haiku, and Fantasy. For the month of June, I'm embarking a creative odyssey, a quest to woo my muse. 30 poems in 30 days. Uncharted waters await. All poems will be posted individually in their respective categories on Fictionpress, but you can find the entire collection on my blog. http://intothestrenuousbriefness.wordpress.com/ I am a girl made of metaphor, whose existence is punctuated by brief periods of artistry. Fiction is what I breathe, words steadily filling up my lungs, and so poetry is wound in the strings of my heart. I am addicted to adjectives and I lie to tell the truth sometimes, but we all do. I don't believe in abab rhyme schemes or politicians. And what remains to be told is found within my poems, because words are the only way to me. The Golden Rule of Fictionpress: review unto others as you would have them review unto you. | |||||||||
1. Realms of Incandescence reviewsLate April, we roam the forest of ourselves, floating like dandelions, drifting on the smoke of dreams. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-1-10 - Complete2. colorblindlosing his vision, he watches his palette shrink and feels himself going blind by degrees. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Horror/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Published: 6-30-10 - Complete3. the ache of youth reviewsyearning for the forbidden. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-30-10 - Complete4. brine and beauty reviewsin the whorl of a nautilus, the ocean murmurs like a lover, seeping into your eardrums, flooding into your veins. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-28-10 - Complete5. the beast reviewstale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: born under a cursed star, she discovers that even beauty has thorns. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-27-10 - Complete6. Emerald City reviewsShe teeters down technicolor side streets, a tornado whirling in her chest. Is it strange, to feel homesick for a place that is not your home? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-26-10 - Complete7. A Piece of the Continent reviewsHis body has slept for fifty years deep beneath the hollow mountain, no longer asking for whom the bell tolls. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-25-10 - Complete8. the gloaming hour reviewslips, drenched with want and wild roses, ask me to paint the dusk with words, and how can I refuse her? part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-24-10 - Complete9. portrait of the artist, as a young girlwoman cannot remake herself without suffering, for she is both the marble and the sculptor. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Published: 6-22-10 - Complete10. New York City reviewsParadise consumed by fire; what remains, except urban decay? Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-21-10 - Complete11. GoodbyeYou are afraid the undergrowth of your heart strangles every living thing. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Published: 6-20-10 - Complete12. Aubade reviewsWhile I sleep, you slip away, leaving sighs scattered in the corners of my room. But these words are proof, I did not dream you. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-20-10 - Complete13. Laws of Attraction reviewsGravity is not responsible for people falling in love. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 165 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-19-10 - Complete14. Sylvia reviewsIn those days, we were two mad girls, infatuated with death, and arrogant enough to assume we were the only ones trapped beneath the bell jar. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-17-10 - Complete15. College Roommates reviewsStrangers meeting in a cinderblock cell, we unpack our boxes and neuroses side-by-side. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-17-10 - Complete16. the patron saint of wrath reviewshere I sit, smoldering beneath june's blood moon, ranting at the sky; it listens to me better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Family/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-15-10 - Complete17. Cirque de Moi reviewsTonight, the sideshow takes center-stage, here in this hall of mirrors, squeezing my soul through a kaleidoscope. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 286 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-15-10 - Complete18. HookIn Neverland, all the whirring, gold clocks have stopped but one. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Published: 6-14-10 - Complete19. an open book reviewsyour words, like splinters, lodge under my skin. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-13-10 - Complete20. according to the garden reviewsrooted to the spot, my memory of you. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-11-10 - Complete21. Pinocchia reviewsPuppet girl, you're just waiting for your strings to be slashed. Tanka. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-10-10 - Complete22. translating the night reviewsthe rain is tapping a love letter on my tin roof. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-9-10 - Complete23. ordinary symphonies reviewsthe soprano on the corner of m street huddles beneath the flickering spotlight as she sings the city to sleep. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-8-10 - Complete24. the summer of crows reviewsif a pacifist shoots himself alone in a forest, do the trees woodenly applaud? blackbirds mourn your brother better than you ever could. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 217 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-8-10 - Complete25. On Leaving reviewsHistory sleeps here, where the sofa cracks form a map of fault lines, sunken patterns telling the stories of why people leave. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Family/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 301 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-6-10 - Complete26. The Insomniac reviewsAs the world sleeps, he learns to dream in another way. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-5-10 - Complete27. Requiem for a MuseFeverish and consumed by perfectionism, her voice vanishes from lack of use. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Published: 6-4-10 - Complete28. AfterHer suburban life, cottage-cramped, seems Grimmer than what Disney imagined. Time to break character. Part of June's Creative Odyssey.Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Published: 6-4-10 - Complete29. the green lady reviewsshe lingers in her underground garden, wondering if the government will prohibit color next. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-4-10 - Complete30. rites of mourning, songs of springa mother mourning, and the earth no longer laughs in flowers. part of june's creative odyssey.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Published: 6-4-10 - Complete31. Ashes to Ashes reviewsHer ashen face unmasks her peasant heart, crumbling to cinders as she realizes the courtiers' prattle resembles the chitter-chatter of mice, but crueler. Finally off-hiatus.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-30-10 - Complete32. twelve » reviewsand with every frantic blink of the strobe light, my memory of you flickers and fades before me.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 12 - Words: 1,796 - Reviews: 43 - Updated: 9-7-09 - Published: 4-13-08 - Complete33. galileo's daughter reviewsI'm spinning out of orbit. it's midnight, and gravity is only a lunar dream.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-14-08 - Complete34. painted midnight reviewsalmost a villanelle: in the twilight of your soul, your secrets, like stars, are blurred and stolen. how they blind me at midnight.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-20-08 - Complete35. geography of a heart reviewsunfamiliar terrain, this city I'm wandering in, where love is a drug peddled on every street corner, and the gates won't let me go.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 88 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-18-08 - Complete36. wallflower reviewsshe never quite caught the friday night fever.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-18-08 - Complete37. prisms and prisons reviewssometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-16-08 - Complete38. the audacity of spring reviewsapril 1st, the cruelest joke of all. how dare the earth be reborn while you are lying in a shell of dead wood! how can the seasons stomach it?Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-17-08 - Complete39. Eden reviewsIn the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 3-21-08 - Complete40. how i live now reviewsno longer counting sheep, this self-induced insomnia has me wondering about the purpose of my ever-dwindling slumber and where my dreams have gone.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-22-08 - Complete41. Don't Listen reviewsProse poem. Within these lines, the words scream to fill my silence, shriek with all I am not saying, all I never will.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 422 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-15-08 - Complete42. These Orchards of Birth and Bone reviewsThe fruits of their labor lie rotted at the base of each lightning struck tree. Peach sweet, never to blossom.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1-5-08 - Complete43. A Missive to the White House reviewsYour lifeless appeal to the American people is a red, white, and blue rhetoric. Washington is rolling in his grave.Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1-1-08 - Complete44. Pipe Dreams reviewsThe letters assumed docile acceptance of the domestic symphony. But her dreams, grown from opium dens and in the Indian sun, are too big for chinaglazed Victorian ideals. She will not become another decoration in their beautifully empty homes.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-1-08 - Complete45. Congratulations, Columbus reviewsThis is the New World holocaust we don't like to talk about, what conquerors, seeking gold and glory, carried across the Atlantic. The Nina brought disorganization. The Pinta, disease. And the Santa Maria, death to the native people. Our inheritance.Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 12-31-07 - Complete46. Star Show at the Cinema reviewsAs you watch the meteors plummet across the screen, my gaze is locked on you like a star coming home.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 12-31-07 - Complete47. seven ways to die » reviewssylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 394 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 12-23-07 - Published: 11-23-0748. holiday on skid row reviewschristmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 12-19-07 - Complete49. ember reviewsand it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark. I'm on fire almost, I'm burning, but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-17-07 - Complete50. Epistle to the Victorians reviewsWoman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-9-07 - Complete51. Vermilion reviewsWinter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 148 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 9-2-07 - Complete52. bitter lullaby reviewseven nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.Poetry: Friendship - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-7-07 - Complete53. Mellifluous reviewsI am envious of your flute.Poetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-2-07 - Complete54. magnolias reviewslike the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete55. watercolor days reviewswatercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete56. trainwreck reviewswith the way man's been talking for centuries, you'd think the apocalypse was just around the corner. and who knows, maybe it is.Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 260 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete57. the year reviewsoh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 512 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete58. moon scream reviewswhat have our footprints been, but scars?Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete59. letters from walden reviewseven thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete60. pandora's box » reviewsa series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-30-0761. epitaph reviewsbury me only if you promise not to look for these bones. and no, anna, this is not a suicide note, in case you were wondering.Poetry: Nature - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-30-0762. cocoon reviewscall me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete63. cacophony reviewschopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete64. beautiful insomniac reviewsoh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-30-07 - Complete