1. Your Rocky Spine reviews
For Katie. Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 281 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-21-08 - Published: 4-21-08 2. Katie's Poem reviews
Written for a friend of several of my other friends, who I haven't actually met yet, but have felt a strange affinity for in our ridiculously long conversations over the phone. Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-27-08 - Published: 3-27-08 3. Habit reviews
A poem I wrote about an old friend/unrequited love affair whose story I don't usually tell as bitterly as I ought. Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 642 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 3-9-08 - Published: 3-9-08 4. Talk reviews
Just a little poem I wrote after having a strange semi-conversation with a good friend. Your brown eyes blue in the screenlight, Blue like your mother's, blue like mine... Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 3-6-08 - Published: 3-6-08 5. Untitled Prose reviews
This is just a few lines of prose I jotted down while enjoying the beautiful weather a while ago. It has absolutely no direction or purpose at the moment, but I liked some of the language. R&R, my loves! Thank you! General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 252 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-4-08 - Published: 2-4-08 6. Reruns reviews
A quick little poem I dashed off in the middle of class about the swapping of life stories that tends to occur at the start of relationships. Could use some work. Please R&R! Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-4-08 - Published: 2-4-08 7. Confessional reviews
A very rough draft of a poem I'm working on, inspired by several people calling me, somewhat ironically, a confessional poet. PLEASE R&R! Any criticism would be really useful on this one! Thanks! Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 296 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-14-08 - Published: 1-14-08 8. Train Call reviews
Just a small piece I wrote at about 3 this morning as I was sitting in my dorm room, reading a book, and was suddenly struck by the sound of a train from about a mile away. [Tonight I was blessed by the crying out of a rushing train...] Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-14-08 - Published: 1-14-08 9. Time reviews
A poem about procrastination. [I feed it warily, Poking poems and shards of literature Through the spinning bars of its thrumming cage. I and it both ignore the pink elephant Of our awareness of the things I should be tending to: A college essay...] Complete - School - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-6-07 - Published: 12-6-07 10. Derailed reviews
The first in a trio of poems I'm writing for my best friend who is more like a sister than anything's birthday. [This always seems to happen: I call you up, sister, with great urgency The weight of the world rushing To the tip of my silver tongue...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 618 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-6-07 - Published: 12-6-07 11. Stranger reviews
After having a conversation with a friend, who declared offhandedly that I was the strangest person he had ever known, I sat down and wrote this poem, somewhat bemusedly. [For some reason I pulled a “you” today Decided to try a page from your book...] Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 520 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-6-07 - Published: 12-6-07 12. Prayer reviews
Written after yet another religious discussion with a Christian friend of mine. [It’s all I know, you shrugged to me With your narrow shoulder breadth Across the waves of heads turned to the front In the teapot tempest holder of the chapel...] Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 475 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-5-07 - Published: 12-5-07 13. Coming Up reviews
Unorganized poem written after listening to an overdose of Ani Difranco. [The strum of me, youless, echoes through the waiting pages Of my anticipating life, opened to a passage about a little boy Who smiled and held out a hand to the closing door...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 501 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-4-07 - Published: 12-4-07 14. Curious reviews
A poem for a friend who asks the strangest questions. [I can’t seem to write a decent poem With you hanging yourself all around my life Stretched too artfully between the days Like the cheesy Christmas tinsel You confessed secretly to love, but only...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 316 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-4-07 - Published: 12-4-07 15. Grammar reviews
Written to a grammatical writer friend. [You change me, from Adjective Into Verb, you act upon within without me Until I no longer resemble the flat Noun she told me So disparagingly that was all I'd ever hope to be Told me I was so selfabsorbed...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 294 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-3-07 - Published: 12-3-07 16. Coffee House reviews
Written about a poetry club we have at school that meets every other week that's been putting pressure on me to write more. [Glinting at the calendar’s edge The faint whiff of roasted steam, Mocha swirls of aroma catch my button hole And pull me...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-30-07 - Published: 11-30-07 17. Not a Poem of Yours reviews
An old lover of mine doesn't seem to think I'm worth writing a single poem. PS:there's a quote from Joni Mitchell's A Case of You lyrics, since a few of you have asked [I am not a poem to you, Though everyone agrees That you could write me perfectly.. Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-30-07 - Published: 11-30-07 18. If You're Not A Writer reviews
Written to a friend who says they can't write. Still not finished yet. [You claim you're not a writer Despite your love of words Ignoring how you cradle each Within your careful mouth Before painting the sound lovingly...] Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-29-07 - Published: 11-29-07 19. Restraint reviews
Trying desperately not to call AGAIN. [I have to hold myself With whitening knuckles Away from the beckoning phone To keep myself from calling you...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - Spanish - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 272 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-28-07 - Published: 11-28-07 20. Bleeding reviews
Written in frustration with my jaw still wired shut after having oral surgery. [The blood leaking From the reverse of my cheek Foams orange in the glass...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-23-07 - Published: 11-23-07 21. Morality reviews
A moral dilemma. [As long as it's not sex, you said, What harm can we have done? But I'm not the one with a God on hand To ply with questions as I please...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 262 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-16-07 - Published: 11-16-07 22. Some Kind of Wonderful reviews
A reflection on my love life. [I love strangely, a kisser of the dark, Praying, dreaming to be some poet’s missing piece A hole for someone's pain to wallow in...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-15-07 - Published: 11-15-07 23. Reason reviews
Trying to justify a relationship, and failing. [I tried to gather the reasons for Us today, To arrange them artistically, and wrap them with a bow But I couldn't find the right ones to fit The picture in my mind...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-15-07 - Published: 11-15-07 24. Funeral for My Inner Child reviews
Written to a friend of mine who makes me feel just how old and jaded I really am. [You make me angry for losing Santa Claus For giving up and giving in to the adults telling me Their little lie, accepting with regret their confession of sin...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-15-07 - Published: 11-15-07 25. For Adam On April Fool's reviews
A poem I wrote for my friend on April Fool's Day a couple years ago at his request that I write something happy for a change, about the Ninja Turtles. Too bad for him : [Today the shaggy head of innocence Commissioned from his rubber sole A poem free...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 429 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-15-07 - Published: 11-15-07 26. Not Another Love Poem reviews
Bitter that I can't seem to write anything but love poems recently. [I’m so tired of writing love poems Instead of anything more interesting But you’ve infested me with your seeping smiles And my skin is crawling with the cobwebs of your touch...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-15-07 - Published: 11-15-07 27. On Hearing That I Would Not Hear Ani DiFranco reviews
Written after being told that I wouldn't be able to attend the Ani DiFranco concert that I had so eagerly purchased tickets for months beforehand. [I watched, apart, the words take form From her sorry lips, detach themselves Unwillingly and take...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-11-07 - Published: 11-11-07 28. Drinking You In reviews
After a friend of mine commented that I have a peculiar way of gazing at people when they speak, as if thirstily drinking them in, I sat down and wrote this poem. [Hang my question marks on everything you say Go ahead and decorate our conversation...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-11-07 - Published: 11-11-07 29. Poemless reviews
A little sketch I wrote about not having anything to write about. [I went searching for a poem today To fasten on my fluttering page That simply would not lie still...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 203 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-11-07 - Published: 11-11-07 30. Mismatched reviews
Written for a friend of mine after discovering that she thought she was transgendered. [When you told me how you really felt I kept picturing how it might have happened: the assembly line for all those waiting to be born...] Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 216 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-9-07 - Published: 11-9-07 31. RE: fresh reviews
A brand new poem written while having a rather highstrung conversation over email with a good friend. [Sitting here, sprawled halfmelted into my creaking chair Mechanically clicking, clicking away...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-7-07 - Published: 11-7-07 32. Martha, My Dear reviews
A poem for an old dear friend of mine. [I swear I cannot tell Where you stop and I begin Not when reading our conversations Where the sentences begin in one hand...] Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 141 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-6-07 - Published: 11-6-07 33. My Gift reviews
A simple little work written to a friend. [You gave yourself to me And all I had to return was this little box I wrapped up in awkward smiles...] Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-24-07 - Published: 10-24-07 34. Me Minus You reviews
An old bitter poem written while locked in a treatment center, addressed to a depressed friend of mine at home who didn't feel the same way about me as I did about her. [Me minus you Such an ugly equation...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 324 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-24-07 - Published: 10-24-07 35. It's for Your Own Good reviews
A very old angry poem written after being placed in a treatment center against my will. [“It’s for your own good,” they say, Smiling austerely, distantly in their clinical way As they close in around me...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 441 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-24-07 - Published: 10-24-07 36. Your Poem reviews
An older poem, written about an unrequited love affair with a poet friend. [I dreamed I was a poem of yours...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 316 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-23-07 - Published: 10-23-07 37. A Writing Philosophy reviews
A poem I wrote about a year ago. It's long, but contains some of my favorite lines...About writing, mocking the attitude some teachers take towards poetic order. [We come from our words in my little world: first sparked by their sultry intentions...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 356 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-22-07 - Published: 10-22-07 38. The Art of Losing reviews
Old poem, again. I eventually used the first line to write a different poem a few years later. [The art of losing should not be so hard to master To make one’s own. I dream the silences will even someday be Mere lack of sound, of words...] Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-21-07 - Published: 10-21-07 39. Sun Boy Elegy reviews
Written after seeing someone for the last time of our lives, knowing things didn't go how they should have. [I don't know how to write of you My words cannot compare To your piercing truths and searing songs...] Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-07 40. Doll Face reviews
Another oldie, from about a year and a half ago.[My thoughts of you are pits of aches that slice my searching tongue when touched....] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-07 41. Sunset reviews
A simple reaction to a sunset as seen out the locked window [Golden spear shafts Pierce the haze of Autumn leaves and sleepy regrets While the bloody smears of fire and flame Fade in and out Like an old choppy movie reel Serenaded by my half hummed...] Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-07 42. Nail reviews
An older work of mine from almost two years ago. Here's the beginning, as I'm horrid at summaries: [My own breaths have worn me down To this steel nail skeleton Driving, driven down Drilling some new hole...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-07 43. Seasons of Trees reviews
A little piece after stretching out beneath a canopy of leaves spread out against the evening sky. [In the summer— They shake back their leafy hair into the breeze Dark dusty green against the shooting sun They keep at bay with a haughty pride...] Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-19-07 - Published: 10-19-07 44. Hunter reviews
Stuck inside her head, the poet feels as though she is merely luring those who care about her into a trap of misery and pain that neither she nor they can escape. [I pose naked, Dressed in prose, Words clinging to me like sweaty silk to sticky skin...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 410 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-19-07 - Published: 10-19-07 45. Stalked reviews
Unable to live down past suicide attempts. Here's the beginning of the poem: [The shapes of my sought for deaths are still living, wandering along beside me, as I dream I walk through city streets...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 249 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-19-07 - Published: 10-19-07 46. Damned reviews
A song written after being told I was going to Hell by a friend I thought agreed with my spiritual views. [We tossed an idea back and forth In the sweeping gloom Beside the chapel’s silent walls Just a casual chat on doom...] Song - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 368 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-19-07 - Published: 10-19-07 47. Murderer reviews
An unpleasant remembrance of one's darker deeds from days gone by. [The anniversary of it has come again, Sliding slyly underneath my door That I'd locked up to keep it out But here it is once more...] Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 370 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-14-07 - Published: 10-14-07 48. Unrepeatable reviews
One of my better poems: written about a stupid blundering of an almost hookup that should never have happened. [It’s not so hard the second time, Still feigning mute surprise to find My hand on his, even after all the time We’ve spent edging nearer...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 179 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-7-07 - Published: 10-7-07 49. Cardboard Piano reviews
Written after spending a year without my piano, and returning to find I could no longer play. [Music is killing me softly these days. It’s always hurt to sit and simply listen as it plays But now I've lost my one defense...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 50. Piano Shine in a Moon Time reviews
One of my best: written after three days of enforced silence, and a year of living without a piano or seeing the ones I love. [I am the Night in naked lips As star shafts spun from dreaming Liszt...] Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 224 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 51. Tell the Truth reviews
A caustic take off of a children's poem. [And in my profession I get paid to tell convince you that I’m someone who I’m not And you’ll call me an artist And applaud me for the entertainment that you got...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 52. Puppet Show reviews
An examination of convenient truths. [And I’ve given up on pretending That I don’t understand why I do what I do Memory’s a better pigeon hole Than this here and now...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 53. Keeping Face reviews
On the irony of human self importance. [I've had trouble Keeping a straight face Recently While observing specimens Of this human race In its natural habitat...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 54. Time to Think reviews
Audiences seem to rate this as a favorite: on writer's block and poetry. [I think I could write more If only I had less Time for staring at empty pages, Pen slightly drooping in my sweaty hand...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 55. The Difference
A rather cynical approach to religious hypocrisy. [All the most valued vocations sing this song: Lawyers fight even if they know they’re wrong Teachers teach what their textbooks say And we writers do our best to keep the truth at bay...] Complete - Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 56. Should Have reviews
A small collection of regrets festering in hindsight. [I should have known Better Than to let myself slide Out of one simple box of black and white Into the big wide world of grey. I should have grown...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 57. Grounding
Looking at life from a completely different perspective. [Sitting in my science class I tune back in from my personal static To find myself...] Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 202 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 58. Why
On the insecurities following a break up from a fling that never made it off the ground. [I would have thought of all the tired shadows in the world, that I Would have known what exactly Was meant by that singular look in his eye...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 59. Unforgettable reviews
A poem about the unforgettable souls who flit into your life for just a moment and leave you reeling for the years to come. [The art of losing you should not be this hard to master— After all, I’ve been practicing for years. I tried forgetting...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 60. The Sum of Him
After a bitter love affair spent dreaming of someone else. [I think I know now How what why Which lyric of his skin it was That caught me enrapt Trapped, wrapped around his golden Scarred sleeping hand...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 250 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 61. Charade reviews
On the awkwardness of friendship on the verge of something else, even if nothing ever happens. [Twirling my fingers like another deck of cards Beneath the ratty blanket where no one will see His silent eyes, not quite meeting mine...] Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 62. Before before
An older classic: on the frustration of writing in this modern day and age. [Poems must have meant more In the olden days, When language was new And the world was still young...] Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 63. Jazz Song
One of my favorites: a response to listening to Julie London's Cry Me a River. [The smoky wail of your broken voice Paints the velvet night against my skin The hair rising up off my neck As if to follow the path...] Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 64. Prelude in D minor
Trying to move forward and be happy with her current situation, a woman can't help but long for a past lover and to play the piano she is no longer able to express herself with.[She awoke to the sound of her own fingers tapping out Bach on her mattress..] Complete - General - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,634 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-5-07 - Published: 10-5-07 |
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