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Author has written 241 stories for War, Family, Life, Love, Nature, Fantasy, General, Work, Humor, Friendship, Haiku, Politics, Religion, School, Essay, and Historical. ——There's not much I don't like about this quirky state of being we call life. "¡Better to be a flea bitten Dog, than a dead Lion!" | |||||||||||
1. Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume III » reviewsHumor, death, bamboo, flutes, eclipses, love, angst, war, tea, moon . . . grin, laugh, weep, scowl or comment. Haikus (5-7-5), Tankas (5-7-5-7-7) or Rengas (grouped Haikus or Tankas). Or, 7-5-7 or 7-7-5 or, . . . Chronologically.Haiku - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 70 - Words: 5,642 - Reviews: 102 - Updated: 11-3-09 - Published: 2-1-062. Life & Death — Vida & Muerte II, Collected Poems » reviewsLife's a variegated animal—chameleon in its shifts, then death comes and picks a fixed color. So many wonderful things to taste and try and dream in this short life. Volume IILife - Fiction Rated: M - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 88 - Words: 9,326 - Reviews: 76 - Updated: 10-11-09 - Published: 9-27-073. Abu Ghraib » reviews¿What profit to gain the world, but lose our hearts?War - Fiction Rated: T - English - General - Chapters: 73 - Words: 11,161 - Reviews: 95 - Updated: 8-24-09 - Published: 7-25-044. Ain't No Love Without II » reviewsBeen strummin' my guitar .... been listening to B.B. King ; continuation of 'Ain't No Love Without' since it ain't over til the Fat Lady singsLove - Fiction Rated: M - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 51 - Words: 5,680 - Reviews: 54 - Updated: 8-4-09 - Published: 5-1-085. Nature—Naturaleza Collected Poems » reviewsIn still pond’s reflective mirrors far gone, Our ancestors saw themselves and all the patterns that are nature's—that are ours if we can only treasure them.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 167 - Words: 17,529 - Reviews: 220 - Updated: 7-5-09 - Published: 12-9-046. Family & Friends—Familia & Amigos Collected Poems » reviewsFamily's the golden crown of life—extending from the past into the future.Family - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 169 - Words: 19,491 - Reviews: 240 - Updated: 5-3-09 - Published: 12-7-047. Angst—Angustia Collected Poems » reviewsPG-dark images, cynicism, pessimism, anti-Creationism, questionable language. Corrosive vapors and liquids—wear protective clothing.Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 174 - Words: 19,112 - Reviews: 269 - Updated: 4-15-09 - Published: 12-5-048. Humor—Humor Collected Poems » reviewsSome of these you'll find amusing, some will just provoke a smirk, others might draw out a chuckle, and some—well, no apologies. ¡Hey, this ain't the comedy channel!Humor - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 147 - Words: 17,698 - Reviews: 162 - Updated: 3-27-09 - Published: 12-9-049. Ain't No Love Without » reviewsBlues—Been listening to B.B. King, . . . been strummingLove - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 200 - Words: 23,154 - Reviews: 256 - Updated: 2-26-09 - Published: 12-19-0410. Lust & Love—Lujuria & Amor, Collected Poems » reviewsLust & Love—Lujuria & Amor, some thoughts about the transitions and partitions between the physical and the emotional in all its weirdness and beauty.Love - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 84 - Words: 9,784 - Reviews: 81 - Updated: 2-17-09 - Published: 12-27-0411. Religion—Religión Collected Poems » reviews¿What is God?¿Does He-She-It care?¿Why is Faith embedded in our Hearts?¿Where's the thanks for daily life?¿What is prophecy to us,—moderns with predictive models?¿Is religion the cure for angst—or, is angst religion's quest? Flagellants 1,000 years ago...Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 87 - Words: 9,874 - Reviews: 182 - Updated: 1-16-09 - Published: 12-6-0412. Random thoughts from a delusional mind » reviewsSome thoughts—utopian perhaps, but of course nothing's objective till it impinges on you,—subjective.Essay - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 101 - Words: 17,344 - Reviews: 131 - Updated: 1-10-09 - Published: 4-22-0513. Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume II » reviewsHumor, death, bamboo, flutes, eclipses, love, angst, war, tea, moon . . . grin, laugh, weep, scowl or comment. Haikus (5-7-5), Tankas (5-7-5-7-7) or Rengas (grouped Haikus or Tankas). Or, 7-5-7 or 7-7-5 or, . . . Chronologically.Haiku - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 209 - Words: 21,876 - Reviews: 376 - Updated: 12-8-08 - Published: 1-29-0514. Love II—Amor II, Collected Poems » reviewsCharity's gentle kindness is love. Passion's violent tumult is love. So many colors to this magic rainbow that spreads arched across our souls.Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 126 - Words: 14,280 - Reviews: 94 - Updated: 8-6-08 - Published: 12-14-0615. Life & Death—Vida & Muerte Collected Poems » reviewsLife's a variegated animal—chameleon in its shifts, then death comes and picks a fixed color. So many wonderful things to taste and try and dream in this short life.Life - Fiction Rated: M - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 203 - Words: 23,068 - Reviews: 173 - Updated: 11-4-07 - Published: 12-9-0416. Love—Amor Collected Poems » reviewsCharity's gentle kindness is love. Passion's violent tumult is love. So many colors to this magic rainbow that spreads arched across our souls.Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 201 - Words: 23,795 - Reviews: 291 - Updated: 9-14-07 - Published: 12-6-0417. SMS Haikus » reviewsText messages: ephemeral and condensed. Entered and ordered chronologically.Haiku - Fiction Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 41 - Words: 3,037 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 8-26-07 - Published: 6-16-0718. A Winter in Africa » reviewsEverything in Africa can kill you, and will if it can; but, everything in Africa can steal your heart and soul, and does.Nature - Fiction Rated: M - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 33 - Words: 3,970 - Reviews: 66 - Updated: 5-19-07 - Published: 7-7-0619. Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume I » reviewsHumor, death, bamboo, flutes, eclipses, love, angst, war, tea, moon . . . grin, laugh, weep, scowl or comment. Most of my Haikus (5-7-5), Tankas (5-7-5-7-7) or Rengas (grouped Haikus or Tankas). Or, 7-5-7 or 7-7-5 or, . . . Chronologically.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 228 - Words: 20,895 - Reviews: 129 - Updated: 4-23-07 - Published: 11-28-0420. Darwin’s Favorite Ball Game reviewsIn 1962 during a S.F. Giant vs. St. Louis Cardinal game, my dad gave a baseball autographed by Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, the Alou Brothers to his boss's son. The Giants won the N.L. pennant that year.Historical - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,564 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-22-06 - Published: 1-22-0621. Teacher Vignettes » reviewsTeaching and learning—as the Chinese say, Give a man a fish,—You feed him for a day; Teach him to fish,—You feed him for life.Work - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 12 - Words: 2,319 - Reviews: 45 - Updated: 11-5-05 - Published: 5-14-0522. West Side of Town reviewsA lifetime of doing crazily dangerous things (by most people's standards), but protected in so many other ways.Work - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 12-3-04 - Published: 12-3-0423. High School Reunion reviewsI've never been back, but I've been told of Gulliver and his large size, . . .School - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 17 - Updated: 12-3-04 - Published: 12-3-0424. Shiraz Melody reviews¿How does sound taste and sight?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 12-1-04 - Published: 12-1-0425. Untamed Heart reviewsI've heard about this thing called love, it's living somewhere inaccessible to man.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 12-1-04 - Published: 12-1-0426. Life Without Sleep reviewsExpanded comment to KonekOniko’s “Contemplation” story id 1771838. ¿What's death, but sleep without dreams? ¿But, isn't life a dream?Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-30-04 - Published: 11-30-0427. ¿Which Consumeth Which? reviews¿Once the sparks's lit—does the love consume the heart, or the other way around?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-30-04 - Published: 11-30-0428. Love's Illusions reviewsLove can paint such pretty pictures, but sometimes they've been touched up.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 11-28-04 - Published: 11-28-0429. Suspended Syzygy reviewsSpeeding north,—7:24 a.m., Full moon and sun hung above horizon.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-27-04 - Published: 11-27-0430. Cocoa Cup Storm Haiku reviewsIn the middle of hoary white winter, Hot cocoa brings tropic’s shining heat.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 11-26-04 - Published: 11-26-0431. Uncommon reviewsVerses of four, syllables four—¿Qua Train? There’s a crazy sanity in rhyming.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-26-04 - Published: 11-26-0432. Night Dive reviewsSelf-Contained Breathing Apparatus take, Under moonlight’s glow walk into the sea.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-26-04 - Published: 11-26-0433. Her, His, Us Memories reviews‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’© An odyssey of love in daily life, Here’s words unsaid should have been on the tape.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-25-04 - Published: 11-25-0434. ¿What’s a Rose? reviewsA day of peaceful thoughts and reverie, A day of clear skies and bright yellow sun.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 11-25-04 - Published: 11-25-0435. Thanksgiving 2004 reviewsPure heart was temple enough for Jesus, ¿Do we have the courage to build our own?Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-25-04 - Published: 11-25-0436. How We See reviewsIn still pond’s reflective mirrors far gone, Our ancestors saw themselves and asked this. From a comment to East-Of-Eden’s “Mirror Girl,” story id 1719486Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-24-04 - Published: 11-24-0437. Unbounded Storm reviewsThere are some things that we can only watch, Portents of forces immeasurable.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-24-04 - Published: 11-24-0438. She Signals When She Wants Me reviewsBlack, lithe, fleet—a mass of straight lissome hair . . .Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 11-23-04 - Published: 11-23-0439. Memories Fleeting reviewsA.N. Expanded comment to Shiya Shoushi’s “Behind,” story id 1765731. Isn't leaving really traces in mind's memory?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-23-04 - Published: 11-23-0440. Flood Warning reviewsNature's vault pours out tons of rain with displays of lightning & thunder . . as in all life.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-22-04 - Published: 11-22-0441. Sealed Fate reviewsIf we had time to wait forever, we could weave a magic carpet with time's strands.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-21-04 - Published: 11-21-0442. No Dear, Not Just Yet reviewsEvery day’s a special joy to be known, Brief and fleet of foot they wander past us.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-21-04 - Published: 11-21-0443. True Love reviewsHaving loved many wonderful women, There's one whose firm embrace I won't evade.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-21-04 - Published: 11-21-0444. Darkness Came and Went reviewsI had a premonition yesterday, And so today drove very carefully.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-20-04 - Published: 11-20-0445. Premonition reviewsSometimes we see the haunting future far, Can only briefly show what it seems like.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-19-04 - Published: 11-19-0446. ¿Who Made Who and Why? Haiku reviewsThere is a question about origins, some people think that Faith can answer it.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-18-04 - Published: 11-18-0447. One Prayer reviewsThere's a simple prayer that all men and women can share, . . .Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-15-04 - Published: 11-15-0448. Unanswered, Love Questions reviews“I Can See Answers on Your Face, ¿But where they tears that streaked down cheeks?” 17 lines (grouped 4-1-4-4-1-3) of 11 syllables each.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 150 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-14-04 - Published: 11-14-0449. Two Halves Form One reviews¿Is Love Rational or Irrational ? 15-13, 15-13, 10-9, 10-9Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-14-04 - Published: 11-14-0450. Gossamer Touch reviews“Ruben Dario sings that love still finds, -Us, with white hairs, looking for rose’s bloom.”Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 11-14-04 - Published: 11-14-0451. Tonsorial Artist reviewsDedicated to those that care for us once we are past caring.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-12-04 - Published: 11-12-0452. Time's Span reviews“My clock has nearly unwound its resorts, -Yet, for You, there’s always Time enough, Love.”Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-12-04 - Published: 11-12-0453. Tea Ceremony reviewsFrom Oda Nobunaga’s time this came, -Something between a Mass and Nature’s song.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 11-11-04 - Published: 11-11-0454. Immortals Alone At Last reviewsPG-13 Rough language. Third poem about Jupiter-Venus. This a.m. the moon was completely occulted and so only Jupiter and Venus remained discernible.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-11-04 - Published: 11-11-0455. Venus Jupiter Cavort reviewsThis a.m. the crescent moon lay below Jupiter and Venus.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-10-04 - Published: 11-10-0456. Hello Kiss Haiku reviewsIn response to Faithless Juliet’s “Pink.” www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1756830Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0457. Time's Wine reviewsA pause, then we can feel the taste of time.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0458. Sky Empty But For Clouds reviewsEven a sky without stars or moon or sun gives us so much.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0459. True Love Always Waits reviews¿Is it always Love that patient waits?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0460. No Mask reviewsAn elaborated comment to kerbieflaw’s “Serenade” www.fictionpress.com(slash)read.php?storyid=1756443 Please refer to National Public Radio’s feature about Alice Coltrane’s ‘Linear Light’Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0461. Unredeemed reviews"For I know that my redemeer liveth" PsalmsReligion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-9-04 - Published: 11-9-0462. Post Election Blues reviewsA comment to chocoholic's satirical essay on why post-election everyone in the USA will be listening to Country music.Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-6-04 - Published: 11-6-0463. ¿Is This a Prayer? reviewsA little verse that woke up with me this morning.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-6-04 - Published: 11-6-0464. Orb to Orb Haiku reviewsInspired by Pimpled Boy’s “A Collection of Japanese Haikus” and yesterday’s run during which the resplendent sun shone through a clear blue sky and diffracted its light in my eye.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-6-04 - Published: 11-6-0465. Man Unsure reviews10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—A sequence to a question.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-3-04 - Published: 11-3-0466. North Wind's Play reviewsA cool wind blows a momentary storm, crashes all power, and gives a brief respite . . .Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-3-04 - Published: 11-3-0467. To Never More reviewsIn response to Siberia1's poem "No More" www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1751241Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-2-04 - Published: 11-2-0468. Truth's Truth reviewsA short little poem about truth—what can you say in a few words, . . .Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-2-04 - Published: 11-2-0469. Love's Love reviewsA tanka (5, 7, 5, 7, 7) inspired by kerbieflaw’s “Reflections in the glass.” www.fictionpress.com(slash)read.php?storyid=1750834Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-1-04 - Published: 11-1-0470. Touch, So Gentle reviewsA tanka (+)—5, 7, 5, 7, 7, (7)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-1-04 - Published: 11-1-0471. Hummingbird Prophecy reviewsAbout the moment in the movie "Ray" when he hears a hummingbird's heart skip a beat.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 120 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-1-04 - Published: 11-1-0472. Some Friends Put On a Skit reviewsDedicated to some friends that wrote and produced a play.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-1-04 - Published: 11-1-0473. Quick Quirks reviews¿Is it just perspective, or does everything shift when you look at things?Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-31-04 - Published: 10-31-0474. Two Frog Bowl reviewsTwo happy frogs in bowl of cool water. 4 stanzas in 8-6-6-8 format.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-31-04 - Published: 10-31-0475. RabbitSheepBoar reviewsI'm starting to believe there's something to this Zodiac thing.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-30-04 - Published: 10-30-0476. Sear'd Tears reviewsInspired by Kelpylion’s “Timid Sleeper.” and of course, the Bard’s “My way of life has fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf . . .” .Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-30-04 - Published: 10-30-0477. Simple Stalks of Grass reviewsNot comparable to Whitman—just delighting in simple roadside views.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-28-04 - Published: 10-28-0478. Morning Full Moon Renga reviewsA few haiku anticipating tonight's lunar eclipse while looking at the early morning's full moon.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-27-04 - Published: 10-27-0479. Short Joys reviewsA thought on Honey Nut Loop's "Pointless Joy."Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-26-04 - Published: 10-26-0480. Two Lip Haiku reviewsTwo lips—tulips.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0481. Intensity reviewsAn accident produces pain that goes on day after day, . . .Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0482. Little Toad Whine reviewsNo matter who or what you are, everyone's got a complaint. 5-7-7-5 for the purists to know in advance.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0483. Ocean's Siren Call reviewsThe sea our primal blood.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0484. Thrombosis reviewsThrombosis or embolism. What fortune to be able to die from a clot fixed or wandering when the rest of the world openly bleeds.War - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0485. Quinceañera reviewsMy daughter's first formal ball.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-24-04 - Published: 10-24-0486. Holy Death reviewsA translation of ms. mary jane's "la santa muerte" www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1741861Religion - Fiction Rated: K - Spanish - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-22-04 - Published: 10-22-0487. Wandering Miscreant reviewsI wish every letter had a color or a tone—anyway, ¿Do you like Count Basie? ¿Jazz?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-22-04 - Published: 10-22-0488. Night Passion reviewsCooling off after a run, the body starts dreaming . . .Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-17-04 - Published: 10-17-0489. She Eased My Pain reviewsYou meet someone you'll never meet again; and, they still leave you a gift unexpected.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-17-04 - Published: 10-17-0490. ¿Inside—Outside? reviewsInternal pain, external wounds.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-17-04 - Published: 10-17-0491. King's Inn reviewsThe old and the new merge—especially in old, old towns.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-16-04 - Published: 10-16-0492. Harvest Run reviewsThe English countryside in Fall during a run, . . .Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-16-04 - Published: 10-16-0493. Taunton Graveyard reviewsStars form carbon basic construct of all life. And then we share it across centuries.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-16-04 - Published: 10-16-0494. Song of Her reviewsOf all the things to choose, . . .Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-16-04 - Published: 10-16-0495. NonPC reviewsHistory doesn't repeat because they don't learn, they're learning, just the wrong things!Politics - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0496. Past the Bridge and Back reviewsIn the dark you run half blind and sometimes really get to see.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0497. Water's Color reviewsInteresting how colors blend and how different media wash onto white.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0498. Two Leagues reviewsOur bodies, vessels that contain both pain and ecstasy.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0499. Peony Paviliion reviewsAn ancient Chinese fairy tale of 55 chapters boiled down to one little poem!Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 227 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-04100. Indian Givers reviewsSo much joy time brings to us, but then returns it all with pain.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-8-04 - Published: 10-8-04101. Off to School She Goes reviewsA little rhyme about everyone's busy-busy life.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-8-04 - Published: 10-8-04102. Travel Bag reviewsInspired by Beth Morgan's "Take Up Your Soul." How few the things we really need when we set upon our way.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-7-04 - Published: 10-7-04103. Why I Bleed reviewsOh yes, I'm into bleeding too, . . .Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-7-04 - Published: 10-7-04104. Smooth'd Vision reviewsWe percieve the world in snippets and translate it into continuity.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-3-04 - Published: 10-3-04105. Unkempt Things reviewsLet the yard go for a while and see what crops up.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-3-04 - Published: 10-3-04106. Things To Do reviewsThe mechanics of life could consume every moment.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-3-04 - Published: 10-3-04107. Trampled Brambles reviewsInspired by DiJen's "Rambles, Rants and None Above." These haikus are a one-for-one shadow.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 265 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-3-04 - Published: 10-3-04108. Under Stand reviewsOnomatopoeia is a form of thank you, but all I can do is poorly rhyme—a Dr. Zeuss like little poem. (Bad pun, I know, but, ¡He truly was a god of rhyme)Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-3-04 - Published: 10-3-04109. Star'song reviewsStar dust we walk a remnant of a sun now dead.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 74 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04110. Unwanted Thorns reviewsEradicated from the "nicer" places, thorn'd weeds still fluorish in their wildness.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04111. Thistle's Sonnet reviews¿Have you ever closely examined a thistle? What an elegant and beautiful functionality!Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04112. ¿Bored? reviews¿What does it mean to be bored?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04113. Storm's Eye reviewsThe eye of the hurricane gives a false sense of relief.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04114. ¿How to Read the Heart? reviews¿Is our experience translatable to another's language?¿What does it take to understand another?¿Is another's grimace, just one person's answer or is it the world's?Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-2-04 - Published: 10-2-04115. Tectonic Shifts reviewsRolling verdant hills, flowered river banks, run a few miles in the English countryside and feel its geology.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-1-04 - Published: 10-1-04116. Thinking Like a Lawyer reviewsBarristers are taught to take up either side of an argument.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-1-04 - Published: 10-1-04117. Thorn'd Arrangement reviewsWild grasses offer symmetry and beauty in their fierce competitiveness.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-30-04 - Published: 9-30-04118. Holy Loch to Glasgow reviewsScotland's natural beauty haunts while on the land, upon the sea or in its airs; and, persists long afterwards.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-29-04 - Published: 9-29-04119. ¿Is It You That’s Mad? reviewsWhat's normalcy when all of us are crzy (1 of 5 kids has some mental problem, 1 of 4 teenagers is depressed, ...)Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 31 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-29-04 - Published: 9-29-04120. Oxford Renga reviews5 Haikus about Oxford, a wonderful mythic land in shroud covered England.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 292 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-29-04 - Published: 9-29-04121. Somewhere Safe reviewsI woke up from a dream this morn, with this riddle in my soul.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-29-04 - Published: 9-29-04122. Pirated Roles reviewsInspired by Jo the Pirates "Stellar Poker"Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-17-04 - Published: 9-17-04123. Instant—Eternal reviewsA little thing can be as wide as all the universe.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04124. It's Time reviewsIt's time to leave a life familiar of going out to sea and camaraderie.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04125. Time's Serpent reviewsOuroburos, a snake eating its own tail—DNA, energy cycles, ONE, . . . .Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04126. Sun Gives All reviews¿Does love need reciprocity?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04127. Spiral Smile reviewsA loving smile can heal so much.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04128. Siren Dwells at Home reviewsA little poem about a wonderful siren that lives . . .Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-16-04 - Published: 9-16-04129. Hurricane Season reviewsHurricanes, Typhoons, Monsoons, Tornados—power creative and destructive.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-15-04 - Published: 9-15-04130. Love's Balm reviewsAs the bard put it, "—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-14-04 - Published: 9-14-04131. Twilight's Haiku reviewsInspired by twilightwriter07's haiku "Auroras."Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-14-04 - Published: 9-14-04132. Shiva Shakti reviewsKundalini resides at the base of the spinal cord. The goal is to awaken this energy so it can bind at the crown of the head with Shiva—duality into union, fusion and transcendence.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-13-04 - Published: 9-13-04133. PERSON ! reviewsA thank you to all those that take their precious time to read and to comment.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-13-04 - Published: 9-13-04134. Who Owns It All reviewsWe've domesticated any beast or plant that's any use to use. Soon there won't be a wild thing that's not in a zoo. Better yet we'll fix our own DNA too.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-13-04 - Published: 9-13-04135. Winter Hordes reviewsRussian winters repulsed Napoleon and Hitler, but the Khan's armies trained and fought in the winter.War - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04136. Masseter Myositis reviewsEven our best friends can get attacked from within.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04137. Sandy Foot Steps reviews¿What can last when written in the sands of time?Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 86 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04138. Morning Cocoa reviewsTo the co-co-a lovers of the world, drink chocolate and be merry.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04139. Synesthete reviewsSynesthetes are humans that associate colours with words or sounds, perhaps A# is yellow-green to me.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04140. Sonnet Comments reviewsA Sonnet about Comments on the Heart's Condition. ¿How's your blood-pressure today?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-12-04 - Published: 9-12-04141. Moon's Winter Heart reviewsAn echo to Obsidian Eye's haiku "Achromic Seasons."Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04142. Promised Land reviewsInspired by Christine Redman-Waldeyer’s “Surrender to the Peace.”Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04143. Throwaway reviews¿Is everything disposable now? I guess we can only laugh about it.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04144. Loss and Pain reviewsInspired by u-will-never-know’s haiku “Through Your Eyes.”Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04145. Roadkill reviewsWe've paved an area the size of Ohio, we've made enough golf courses to cover Pennsylvania, where do the wild things go?Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04146. Rainbow Man reviewsAB-, B-, AB+, A-, O-, B+, A+, O+ . . . ¿What's your blood type?¿Will you ever need a transfusion?Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04147. Redhead reviews“Imagination’s a Great Companion, especially on a long-distance flight.”Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04148. Quiet Serenity reviews¿Ever have that moment when you have something to say, but can't find any words?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04149. Question reviews100 syllables that ponder a beauty's answer to a simple question—ah, but then Men truly are from Mars and Women did originate in Venus!Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-04150. Queer to Dance When You're So Far reviewsThe rhythm of our hearts can span the oceans and beat in synchronicity.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04151. Starpoet's Haiku reviewsInspired by Starpoet’s “Alone are the Stars. A a wonderful poem that paints a huge contrast and image; and a piercing question—¿Huge fusion burning bright or fusion’s residue, which would you rather be?Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04152. Quaint Quest reviewsThere's a Jimmy Cliff song set to biblical verse, "By the Rivers of Babylon . . . " It captures so much of captivates the heart . . .Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04153. Pithy Aphorism reviewsKurt Gödel's "Incompleteness Theorem" states something to the effect that logical systems can either be complete or consistent, but not both. ¿Duh, where's love fit in?Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 82 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04154. Picky, Picky Heart reviews¿How does the heart choose?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04155. Moon at 0528 am reviewsThe moon is a form-shifter, yet she's constant.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-10-04 - Published: 9-10-04156. Hurricane, Huracan reviewsAn echo to Nishido's Infortunio-Misfortune. An english and a spanish haiku.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-9-04 - Published: 9-9-04157. Hunting Season reviewsNature's cycle—life to death. Beauty in its rotundity.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-9-04 - Published: 9-9-04158. Person reviewsPerson, some-person, no-person, Noh-person—masks and Noh plays, mystery of life.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-9-04 - Published: 9-9-04159. Summer Leopard Spots reviewsThe Egyptians adored felines. ¿Are they the only worshippers in abandoned temples now?Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-9-04 - Published: 9-9-04160. Spring Flowers reviewsInspired by Kairi Miyazawa’s “Trees” Haiku. Only that which bends can at times escapes the strong buffeting storms.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-8-04 - Published: 9-8-04161. Winter Kisses reviewsSnowflakes and kisses in front of a warm, cozy hearth.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-8-04 - Published: 9-8-04162. Goodnight, Sleep Tight echo 1 reviewsA sonnet written in collaboration about night's dreams.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-8-04 - Published: 9-8-04163. Ouch reviewsAn echo of a friend's work about Touch-me-not flowers. ¿How sensitive is your skin?¿Where does pleasure shift to pain?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-8-04 - Published: 9-8-04164. The White Rose reviewsThe first poem I ever learned, by Jose Marti (Cuban). Free verse translation.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-6-04 - Published: 9-6-04165. Thank You Song reviewsI stopped looking at the TV long ago, the news now seldom read; but, a little bird's song will perk my ears.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-6-04 - Published: 9-6-04166. North Star reviewsAbout seeing something to take us there.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 9-6-04 - Published: 9-6-04167. Witty Ditty for a Bitty reviewsA little poem, sort-a-kind-a-fun-like, but maybe there's lots more . . . .Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-6-04 - Published: 9-6-04168. Guide Post reviewsWe've given up our old means of sighting navigational guides, how do we steer our courses now?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-6-04 - Published: 9-6-04169. Moroccan Smile reviewsYou meet people that work away from home, simple, struggling; but, still offering their smile.Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-5-04 - Published: 9-5-04170. Saucy Red Lipstick2 reviewsA collaboration on a jazz-succint poem about a sparkling dancer by Jo The Pirate and me.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-5-04 - Published: 9-5-04171. HighWire reviewsQuantum dynamical our existence, our minds create the way.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-4-04 - Published: 9-4-04172. Lens Prophecy reviewsIf you could divine futures, would you have the patience to wait?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-4-04 - Published: 9-4-04173. Soar reviewsThere was a time when children made toys out of wood, paper, or other things nature gave.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 75 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-4-04 - Published: 9-4-04174. Luna's Rising reviewsOur nightly companion needs must wake, sometimes in curlers and skin-cream.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-4-04 - Published: 9-4-04175. Said Again and Again reviewsIt's all been said by poets and bards much greater that us, but our own humble words add nuances to the stream of words.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 9-3-04 - Published: 9-3-04176. Tasty YellowOrange reviewsDedicated to everyone that's commented on my poems. Your words are as tasty as Nasturtium's flower.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-3-04 - Published: 9-3-04177. Typhoon Song reviewsIn Chaos theory, non-repeatable events can be dramatically changed by the almost negligible effects of even a butterfly's wings.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04178. Toad's Croon reviewsEveryone's a crooner now, smoothly swinging verses in soft melodies, . . .Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Parody/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04179. Short Trip reviewsShort the trip, long the taste of wonderment.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04180. Gypsy's Song reviewsThere are voices that enthrall and captivate with tonalities of Siren's calling us to crash upon cragged shores.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04181. Promise This I To Thee reviewsIf there was one promise that you'd keep, what would it be?Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04182. Quetzalcoatl's Fruit reviews¡The Aztecs loved chocolate, delicious its taste, they ate everything with it, even human meat!Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 35 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 9-2-04 - Published: 9-2-04183. Swim Love reviewsWe once were destined to go into the ocean, but found our ways back to the savannah. What would our love in the ocean have been like?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-31-04 - Published: 8-31-04184. The Forest reviewsA collaboration with B. Itozuku on a poem about longing . . .Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-31-04 - Published: 8-31-04185. Swoosh reviewsWhat would be the perfect game of pool? A man imagines such a duel with an opponent, well . . . PG-sexual innuendosHumor - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Parody/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-31-04 - Published: 8-31-04186. Pledge reviewsTo the image of one who'll come. How does the song go? Some day she'll come along, the gal I love, and she'll be - - - -Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-31-04 - Published: 8-31-04187. She Said reviewsSometimes we glance a life that we could have shared, but overlapping life's harder than making quilts.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-30-04 - Published: 8-30-04188. Snipe reviewsTo those that outside of air conditioned offices face the bleakness & exposure of work's blasts or relentless sun.Work - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-30-04 - Published: 8-30-04189. Life's Walk reviews¿Do all roads lead to You?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-29-04 - Published: 8-29-04190. I've Left reviews¿Do the God's walk the earth? ¿And how did Europa get pregnant? ¿Are there virgin births?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-29-04 - Published: 8-29-04191. Horse of Light reviewsWe ride towards destiny, but our hearts hold the reins.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-29-04 - Published: 8-29-04192. Pauper reviewsI passed a charred stump and reflex turned 'round to find a woman begging for my soul.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-27-04 - Published: 8-27-04193. Two reviewsHave you ever loved to perfection? Someone whose lifespan matched hour-for-hour and beat-to-beat?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-25-04 - Published: 8-25-04194. HtWtW How to Win the War reviews7-7/7-7-7/7-7-7/7-A sketch for a longer poem about a man's intent to seduce a woman. PG-13 for implicit sexual nuances.Humor - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-25-04 - Published: 8-25-04195. Things I Loved reviewsOur memory, Proust's pralines, merges past and present; and, the raw edge of the present mellows like fine wine.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-20-04 - Published: 8-20-04196. The Wind Stole the Message reviews¿Why do our paths part?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-20-04 - Published: 8-20-04197. Tactical Adept reviewsTsun Tsu, the great Chinese tactician, never lost a battle. That advice if properly applied could lead to great success.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-19-04 - Published: 8-19-04198. Sweet Tang reviewsSome orange trees are bred for sweetness and others for their tang—¿Is there a perfect crossing between the two?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-19-04 - Published: 8-19-04199. Summer Holiday reviewsThey waded in with all their clothes, while everyone in swimsuits stood and gaped.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-19-04 - Published: 8-19-04200. So Far and Near reviewsMan's dream of distant perfection always seems so close.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-19-04 - Published: 8-19-04201. Slip of the Tongue reviewsA modern version of Pushkin's poem about a romantic slip of the tongue. ¿Or, do women ever say what they mean or mean what they say to men?Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-18-04 - Published: 8-18-04202. Regent reviewsThe Red Queen rules the King of Hearts.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-17-04 - Published: 8-17-04203. Queen of Tainos reviewsAnacaona was the indian queen of Haiti. She died tortured by the Spaniards, but never gave up her husband. PG13-violence.War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-17-04 - Published: 8-17-04204. Perseus Unbinds reviewsAndromeda-white flower and constellation lies with broken back in pain, longing to be saved.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 251 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-17-04 - Published: 8-17-04205. Permissions reviewsPG-topic and issues. ¿So everyone's fit to be a mother or father?Family - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-17-04 - Published: 8-17-04206. Night Raid reviews¿So you think that there are peaceful villagers in some remote corner of the world? Don't be taken like Margaret Mead, read Napoleon Chagnon's YANOMANO.War - Fiction Rated: T - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 41 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-04207. No Dew Saved Them From the Sun reviewsWild prairie flowers only bloom when intense fires rupture the hard seeds.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 68 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-04208. Night Jog reviewsThose that come behind us soon pass, no matter what the skill or will.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-04209. Moonlight Sang a Minor Chord reviewsOur muse smiles when fortune calls with unexpected gifts.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-16-04 - Published: 8-16-04210. Nasty Temper reviews¿When our snarls and grows issue forth with bared white fangs, how do others react?Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-15-04 - Published: 8-15-04211. Prairie Voles Vice Meadow Voles reviewsThey've found a way to make voles monogamous. But it was the wild prairie ones that were monogamous to begin with, the tamer meadow voles were the promiscous ones.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-15-04 - Published: 8-15-04212. My Laughter Made You Sad reviewsWe laugh, not knowing if others understand we're laughing with them, not at them.Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-13-04 - Published: 8-13-04213. Musical Gyrations reviewsWe spin others and twirl ourselves when we dance. After watching a troupe of young kids do ballet.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-13-04 - Published: 8-13-04214. Music Hums From You reviewsMusic makes us resonate, so can love.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-13-04 - Published: 8-13-04215. Her Love reviewsWe take for granted love freely given; and, lightly think we can regain it when we want. Then, looking back, realize it was our only moment true.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 60 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 8-12-04 - Published: 8-12-04216. Minotaur Loved Ariadne reviewsMan is led by a nose-ring in woman's mazes. Not a misogynist's opinion.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-11-04 - Published: 8-11-04217. Morning Aperitif reviewsThe things you hear on an airplane!Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-11-04 - Published: 8-11-04218. Methuselah's Love Quandary reviews¿How late is late when love comes knocking at the door? ¿When does it stop?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-04219. Mermaid Breath reviews¿Have you had a good whiff of pheromones lately? It might uplift your spirits. Better than single malt scotch.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-04220. Manufactured Love reviewsMaya's veil hides reality, especially when in Love!Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-10-04 - Published: 8-10-04221. Inspiration reviewsThose who lead often pay a price.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-9-04 - Published: 8-9-04222. Ion's Search reviewsWe're always told to pursue a passion, but there's always several cautions.Work - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-9-04 - Published: 8-9-04223. Jungle Drum Pounds reviewsThere are messages broadcast on the simplest resonators that reach across time and space.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-9-04 - Published: 8-9-04224. Ineffable reviewsWords a poor reflection of what life contains.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-9-04 - Published: 8-9-04225. I Woke Amidst the Thunder reviewsA summer storm the background for our dreams.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04226. I Would Be Your Dance Clothes reviewsRapt in the beauty of movement, sometimes we wished we were the wrap.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04227. ¿How Can Nothing be Infinite? reviewsLimited our understanding, great our ambition we create that beyond our comprehension.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04228. Hot Springs reviewsThose that have never met a witch can't believe Greek myths.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 362 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04229. Hocked My Heart reviewsLife accrues value to the lowliest things just by living.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04230. Her Face Enigma reviewsWe know what we could love if we found it.Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-04231. Heart Breaker reviewsA brief little note about what a woman can do to a man's heart.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-04232. Happy Hour reviewsThe bar scene, so cool until it drools.General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 8-7-04 - Published: 8-7-04233. HalfTruths reviewsWords are part of our tool-kit or our arsenal.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-1-04 - Published: 8-1-04234. Goddess At My Door reviewsIllusion always calls when least expected.Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 97 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-31-04 - Published: 7-31-04235. Making Gems reviewsStress is what makes carbon into diamonds, but the pressure can crush.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 135 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-29-04 - Published: 7-29-04236. ¿Flight or Fancy? reviews¿Isn't life just one set of strange circumstances after the next?Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-28-04 - Published: 7-28-04237. Persephone's Death Became Spring reviewsGreek Gods still explain things pretty well.Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-28-04 - Published: 7-28-04238. Dream Voyage reviews¿How to venture forth to new shores when uncertain of directions?Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7-27-04 - Published: 7-27-04239. Inside The Crucible of Time reviews"For everything, there is a season . . . "Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-27-04 - Published: 7-27-04240. Hooligan, ¿Am I? reviews¡Better to be a flea-bitten dog, than a dead-lion! Or, so it seems to me.Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-25-04 - Published: 7-25-04241. ¡Our Talk—All Yells! reviewsHigh energy our physics, into individuality we disperse.Family - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-25-04 - Published: 7-25-04