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Author has written 33 stories for General, Life, Nature, Religion, Love, Friendship, Family, and Politics. "Language condenses into poetry, --Rachel Hadas, "Five Botched Goodbyes" 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. my deviantart: http://ivorytower21.deviantart.com/ none of my poetry is posted there, but plenty of photos and sketches. check it out if you want. The Golden Rule of Fictionpress: review unto others as you would have them review unto you. | |||||||||||||
1. twelve » reviewsand with every frantic blink of the strobe light, my memory of you flickers and fades before me.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 12 - Words: 1,820 - Reviews: 40 - Updated: 9-7-09 - Published: 4-13-082. galileo's daughter reviewsI'm spinning out of orbit. it's midnight, and gravity is only a lunar dream.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-14-08 - Published: 10-14-083. 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.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-20-08 - Published: 5-20-084. 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.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-18-08 - Published: 5-18-085. wallflower reviewsshe never quite caught the friday night fever.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-18-08 - Published: 5-18-086. prisms and prisons reviewssometimes I slip inside a metaphor to escape the confines of who I cannot be.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-16-08 - Published: 5-16-087. 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?Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-17-08 - Published: 4-17-088. Eden reviewsIn the garden of Paradise, unknowing, you taunt me with forbidden fruit, the nectar of your skin shining sweet, like appleflesh.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 3-21-08 - Published: 3-21-089. 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 2-22-08 - Published: 2-22-0810. 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-15-08 - Published: 2-15-0811. 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-5-08 - Published: 1-5-0812. 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.Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 1-1-08 - Published: 1-1-0813. 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.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-1-08 - Published: 1-1-0814. 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.Complete - Politics - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-31-07 - Published: 12-31-0715. 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.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 12-31-07 - Published: 12-31-0716. seven ways to die » reviewssylvia said, dying is an art, like everything else. inspired by the bell jar and lady lazarus.General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 380 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 12-23-07 - Published: 11-23-0717. holiday on skid row reviewschristmas no longer a holy day in your house, but a bitter reminder of all that you lack.Complete - Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-19-07 - Published: 12-19-0718. 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.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-17-07 - Published: 11-17-0719. Epistle to the Victorians reviewsWoman, without her man, is nothing. Woman: without her, man is nothing.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-9-07 - Published: 10-9-0720. Vermilion reviewsWinter sunset in ancient Greece. On her underworld throne, Persephone waits for spring.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 9-2-07 - Published: 9-2-0721. bitter lullaby reviewseven nursery rhymes are no longer sacred...rockaby baby was never so dark.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-7-07 - Published: 6-7-0722. Mellifluous reviewsI am envious of your flute.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 6-2-07 - Published: 6-2-0723. magnolias reviewslike the magnolias, you captivated me. though they've long since wilted, you still intrigue me.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0724. watercolor days reviewswatercolor poets blur, but their words are etched like acrylic on my canvased mind.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0725. 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.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0726. the year reviewsoh caesar, I hate your spectred cage of divided time: these twelve months are too grand to fit in a pocket calendar.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 491 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0727. moon scream reviewswhat have our footprints been, but scars?Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0728. letters from walden reviewseven thoreau snuck back into boston for a glance at the new york times.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0729. pandora's box » reviewsa series of sketches of classical figures, both myth and man: newest are icarus and socrates. don't ask me why.Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0730. 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.Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0731. cocoon reviewscall me a suicidal butterfly if you will, but know that this prison is mine by choice.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0732. cacophony reviewschopin's exploitation of your ears never disturbed you before.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-0733. beautiful insomniac reviewsoh, to sleep, perchance to dream. But shakespeare seems to have forgotten we dreamers of the sleepless nights.Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-30-07 - Published: 5-30-07
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