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| persephone in waiting |
Author has written 83 stories for Life, Love, General, Haiku, Family, Religion, and Nature. "Live or die, but don't poison everything." -- Anne Sexton female. 18. college student. Writer's block has attempted to hold me down, but I'm still going strong. | |||||||
1. White Horses, for Leonard Kraditor reviewsYour love, your heart, was split in two. -inspired by the film "Two Lovers."Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-13-11 - Complete2. Braille reviewsYour lashes, like moths, flutter, flatter the cavities of your glassy, gone eyes.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-10-10 - Complete3. Bumbling Bees reviews... these not-yet-men are barely even boys. They are bumbling bees, ever-preoccupied, whose buzz is sharper than their sting ...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7-29-10 - Complete4. the art of living reviews-life is all about dressing up ... we're just never satisfied with what we are.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-10-10 - Complete5. Ode to SummerWe flutter in and out of days, live from week to week by thriving on every minute, every second - each is sacred.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 239 - Published: 5-26-10 - Complete6. blooming thoughts of yourose petals that could rival the fullness of your lips, starlight shining in the evening of your eyes, growing branches, sloped like the bridge of your nose ...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Published: 5-26-10 - Complete7. Let Me Nourish You reviewsLet me be your hit, your heroine, to sweep you of your inhibitions ... Let me nourish the pearls of hunger that have collected within your gut ...Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 488 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-23-10 - Complete8. butterflies reviewsyou give me a sick case of butterflies, boy.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-23-10 - Complete9. nowhere without you reviewsYour face is engraved within my eyes, painted beneath the flaps of my lids, like stars that form when you close your eyes to the sunlight.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-22-10 - Complete10. i want you reviewsyou when you're nervous, hands stirring and shaking; when you're as solemn as if your heart is breaking.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5-16-10 - Complete11. don't be afraid reviewsit's only love.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 47 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-12-10 - Complete12. Nature Boy reviewsYou were born from Nature. -i don't know where this came from.Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 113 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-12-10 - Complete13. Summer Nights reviewsWe've got hope in our eyes and summer in our midst, and nothing else will matter.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-12-10 - Complete14. If We Should Kiss reviewsI would to God that thine lips / taste as fruit sweetened by age ...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-9-10 - Complete15. you were music to meyou, just a shadow of a boy. you wore piercings on your face and leather on your back, with music in your heart and rebellion in your soul. you - you smart-ass, you.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 282 - Published: 4-7-10 - Complete16. There is a light inside you reviews... surrounding you, engulfing you, drowning you in its magnificence.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-27-10 - Complete17. thirst reviewsi want to coax movement from your body, wring sounds and syllables from your throat...Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-13-10 - Complete18. burning heart reviewsyou smile - my heart burns like comet tails.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-24-10 - Complete19. life is only temporary reviewsand you are just a ghost going nowhere, suspended in eighth grade, with God in your midst and Death on your cheek.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 387 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-22-10 - Complete20. storms reviewsthe electricity exchanged between your soft skin and my hot hands is like lightning striking me.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 230 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-20-10 - Complete21. your lips keeping moving but all i hear iswords will only get you so far with me.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Published: 2-1-10 - Complete22. in this momentwe are one.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Published: 2-1-10 - Complete23. you're like a lemon reviewsall i want to think of is the tartness of your taste.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-1-10 - Complete24. you set me on fire reviewsthe feel of your skin makes mine white-hot.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-20-10 - Complete25. because swagger means the same thing in french reviewswith every beat in your step and swing of your shoulders, i'm reminded of rhythm that language is made of...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-20-10 - Complete26. your smile is like a firefly-sacred and beautiful, just a flicker of God's potential...Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Published: 1-20-10 - Complete27. this is love reviewsI'll turn myself into the shell of a girl, girl without a face, without a soul, without skin heart life breath.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-19-09 - Complete28. i killed my love for you one day reviewsLove was a spider on the basin of my sink one day.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-4-09 - Complete29. shaping mortality reviewsthe sculptor just wanted to be loved.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-27-09 - Complete30. a Love like Seasons reviewslove dawned upon them like Seasons. the title speaks for itself.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2-12-09 - Complete31. into temptation reviewsjust another taste - it won't do you any harm. evil is in the eye of the beholder. rated T for sensuality.Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-30-09 - Complete32. Vegetable reviewsi bet you pity him. maybe it's better to be a vegetable: frigid and unmoving. surrender to another's hands, let them live life for you.Poetry: Family - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Crime - Chapters: 1 - Words: 190 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-28-09 - Complete33. a fire inside reviewsi should've known better. intelligent girls always dabble with poison, even though we're better than that. because in the end, everything just burns.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 12-20-08 - Complete34. You were strong, but Death was stronger reviewsReality bites.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 12-16-08 - Complete35. the rawness of meTake me as I am.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Published: 12-2-08 - Complete36. Half Life reviewsI don't want to wake to bathe beneath the light that emanates from the broken bodies that walk this Earth.Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-2-08 - Complete37. all that, and a Bag of Chips reviewsi know i shouldn't want you, but voracity is too beautiful a thing to ignore.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-1-08 - Complete38. seaside musings reviewsi wish i could call this a poem.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-30-08 - Complete39. we were drunk on the atmosphere reviewswe danced as if it were the end of our days ... and before i could even blink, it was over.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 376 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-28-08 - Complete40. i never said i could fly reviewsi hurled myself off of the edge, and you stood back and just "watched" and "let" my destiny spiral downward, just as my head spiralled toward the ground.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-25-08 - Complete41. the heart of the ocean reviewswhen he smiles, it feels as though a fire has been lit inside my gut ... his twinkling eyes quench the flames like oceans.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 129 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-25-08 - Complete42. you counterfeit, you fraud reviewsi want to taste the person on the inside.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 103 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-17-08 - Complete43. love plagues reviewsmy passion swells like a mosquito bite, infected with pain and the sweet juices of novelty.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-17-08 - Complete44. and i'll cry if i want to reviewsstupid boy; didn't you know? i'm not crying. i just got a little resentment in my eye.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-16-08 - Complete45. sad little boy, with your selfindulgent pity reviews... when all of his wanton antics have left him to wallow in his bathtub filled to the brim with self-pity.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-12-08 - Complete46. She Wears Beauty Like A Mask reviewsYou wear your expressions like masquerade masks ... I want to peel the flesh off your alabaster bones so I can see what's underneath ... because beneath the surface, I'm certain that your heart is cracking under the pressure.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-11-08 - Complete47. sunlight syntax reviewsi was so in love with you then, enamored with your telescope eyes that could see miles deep into my soul, there planting seeds adoration as if into soil and making imprints for the future. note: there should be an "of" before adoration.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-11-08 - Complete48. The Art of Suicide reviewsI'll embrace the darkness unreservedly and beg for Death like a masochistic fly bound by her wings.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-7-08 - Complete49. The Beauty of Self Depreciation reviewsThey say his vanity runs deep, but his sorrows run even deeper.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 223 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-27-08 - Complete50. ghosting reviewstoday, i waited for you beneath the blazing summer sun, lips laced with the taste of another boy; i stared into the emptiness of the opposite side of the train tracks - and i dropped my bags and bowed my head, because you weren't staring back at me.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 231 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-20-08 - Complete51. Slow Burn reviewsWhen we met, he was merely a spark, waiting to be ignited, and I had served as his kerosene.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 246 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-20-08 - Complete52. Beauty incarnate reviewsshe is Beauty incarnate, and her cancer can never take that away.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-14-08 - Complete53. the city sleeps in flamesThe flames engulf the city the way pain once engulfed his soul... "I didn't want to do it," he insists, like a vindictive defendant standing trial against his tartar. "But you made me."Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 166 - Published: 5-1-08 - Complete54. the music or the misery reviewsOnstage, he is God. Offstage, he is just like his disciples: broken, desecrated, and hollow, because without his music, all he has is his misery.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 226 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-26-08 - Complete55. Finding Beauty in the Negatives reviewsI had never looked so beautiful until you shot me.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 4-17-08 - Complete56. the scream reviewsIf life imitates art, then you, boy, are a living representation of "The Scream." You will never be free from your pain until you emancipate yourself from this existential angst.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-17-08 - Complete57. die for me, loveHe would do anything for her, go to any depths, even in death - his Ice Queen.Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 327 - Published: 4-15-08 - Complete58. crashcourse driving reviewsHad I climbed into the car with you that night, we would have been in the same situation, or rather not in one at all seeing as you are "no longer with us."Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 484 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-12-08 - Complete59. Some of Them Want to Use You reviewsyou use me like a cigarette, skin damp and glossy with after-sex sweat, but honey, we've barely even begun.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-12-08 - Complete60. child preyhands locked and knees bound as if wound that way by imaginary thread, because he refuses to spread them for anyone, except you, Father.Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Published: 4-10-08 - Complete61. Simon Pure reviewsSultry-slender Simon is pure, but he kisses like the devil.Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-9-08 - Complete62. betrayal reviewsjoy erupted from their laden rage; they had prevailed the execution of their King-these men once deemed friends. loosely based on Julius Caesar.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-9-08 - Complete63. taking lives and keeping hearts reviewsFor the boy who had an empty gun in hand, from the girl who kept the bullets in her pocket.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4-5-08 - Complete64. flower girls and candy boys reviewsThey are both well aware of your predatory intentions; and they both have the keys to your gun cabinet.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-1-08 - Complete65. broken by the light reviewsthe world is only this beautiful in darkness.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-31-08 - Complete66. banished from Eden reviewsi was silver, and you were golden, in a place where nothing golden ever stays.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-27-08 - Complete67. blossoming suicide reviewsit only suddenly occurred to me that the earsplitting screams that sounded repititiously were comming from me.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 214 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-27-08 - Complete68. spawn reviewsBy carrying the spawn of Satan, I did not realize I would be provoking an abortion.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-27-08 - Complete69. into the depths she falls reviewsI will follow you to wherever you lead me ... even to the grave.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-26-08 - Complete70. painting pictures of abuse reviewsyou never have the intention of stopping - not until you are or i am seeing red.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-26-08 - Complete71. spiderweb sins reviewsThis may not be Eden, but, boy, I will not dare submit to your sins.Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-25-08 - Complete72. we're all suckers for russian roulette reviewsi thought you were in it for the bravado, but i guess you were truly doing it for the suicide.Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 3-20-08 - Complete73. suicide doesn't always result in death reviewsand to this day, it pains me to see the restructured remains of your face, torn in two by a single bullet. rated for violent imageryPoetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-19-08 - Complete74. PostIts reviewsspeak up, Quiet Boy; i know you've got a mouthful of secrets.Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 3-18-08 - Complete75. small town girls with big city dreams reviewsonly in the city of misfits can small town girls ride uptown, arms outspread in the air, and touch the s t a r sPoetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-18-08 - Complete76. Matriarchs and Patriarchs of the 21st Century reviewssleep tight, Mothers and Fathers of the 21st century. your offspring are safe inside these graves you've dug. rated for subject matter.Poetry: Family - Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 118 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-11-08 - Complete77. Lost Stars reviewsthis was a haiku i wrote for my English class. the poem is, indeed, a metaphor.Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3-10-08 - Complete78. Ode to My Books reviewsthis poem was an assignment for English class. i was asked to write an ode to a materialistic object to which i held dear, so, naturally, i chose my books. take a gander.Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-9-08 - Complete79. great expectationsthey are wasting their lives, and i am wasting mine watching.Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Published: 2-21-08 - Complete80. high school: the site of unholy massacresand then, the screaming STOPS.Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Published: 2-21-08 - Complete81. we were visionariesi always knew we would be...Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 314 - Published: 2-21-08 - Complete82. Persephone's Epidemic reviewsShush now, my darling, for you'll be safe inside my world of pixies, faeries, and all things you're bound to like."Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 344 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2-18-08 - Complete
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