DarknessBeckons
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Joined 12-30-01, id: 146336
Author has written 51 stories for Friendship, Fantasy, General, Love, Song, Life, General, War, Supernatural, Romance, Fantasy, Mythology, and Nature.

Favorite Authors: Laurell K. Hamilton, J.K. Rowling, Anne Bishop, Mercedes Lackey, Kim Harrison, Sherrilyn Kenyon/Kinley MacGregor, Tamora Pierce, Kate Forsyth, Christopher Paolini, Kelley Armstrong, Shakespeare, Erin Hunter

Favorite Poems/Poets: 'Whose List to Hunt'-Thomas Wyatt; 'Answer to Marlowe'-Walter Raleigh; 'The passionate shepherd to his love'-Christopher Marlowe; 'Song '(Goe, and cathche a falling starre...)-John Donne; 'Song: To Celia' (Drink to me only with thine eyes...)- Ben Johnson; 'Song: To Lucasta, going to the wars', 'To Althea, from prison'-Richard Lovelace; 'The tyger'-William Blake; 'The Raven'-Edgar Allen Poe; 'Because I could not stop for death--'-Emily Dickinson; 'The lady of Shallott'-Alfred, Lord Tennyson; 'Goblin Market'-Christina Rosetti

Favorite Books: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series; Merry Gentry Series; The Black Jewels Trilogy; Dreams Made Flesh; The Last Herald-Mage Series; Harry Potter Series; Beowulf; 1984; Obsidian Mountain Trilogy(Outstretched Shadow, etc); Five Hundred Kingdoms Series (Fairy Godmother, One Good Knight); Women of the Otherworld Series (Bitten, Industrial Magic, etc); Hamlet; Midsummer Nights Dream; Warrior Cats series

Favorite Movies: Phantom of the Opera; Moulin Rouge; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Last Unicorn; Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (1980's BBC production); Pirates of the Carribean; Princess Bride; Sleeping Beauty; Aladdin; Harry Potter Movies

Favorite TV Shows: Rosemary and Thyme; Are You Being Served?; Vicar of Dibley; Fawlty Towers; Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; Hell's Kitchen; Dancing with the Stars; Twilight Zone; Frasier; Golden Girls; Jeopardy; Take Home Chef; Semi-Home Made with Sandra Lee

Hobbies: Reading, Writing, Fantasy, Gardening, Herbs, Herb Crafts, Cooking

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Bittersweet by Angi3 reviews
Love is fleeting sometimes, but do we all see the warning signs?
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/4/2006
Wanted by Princess-anna57 reviews
This is another one of my haiku experiments. Please read the authors note attached for more information! Thank you!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 163 - Reviews: 181 - Favs: 19 - Published: 2/19/2006
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I Miss You More Than I Can Say
I miss you more than I can say/No mere words aptly convey...And I can not but think, "Does he/ Often--ever--think of me?"
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Published: 9/19/2008 - Complete
I Miss Your Smirk reviews
I never thought it'd hurt this much/ To be so long without your touch/ I never thought that I would care/ If I looked and you weren't there... If it's worth doing, what is work?/ And, after all...I miss your smirk
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 256 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9/19/2008 - Complete
A Dance of Torture and Torment reviews
She dances like a flower, waving in the wind, A delicate movement of graceful pain... A dance of torture and torment, of vengeance and punishment. A dance that has only just begun.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 230 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/17/2007 - Complete
Happiness reviews
What are you?Sunshine on my upturned face... Melted dark chocolate coating my tongue..
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/17/2007 - Complete
I Dream Too High reviews
I dream too high and want too much, Yearn for love but shy from touch. Expect the sun and days so bright, But get the moon and cold of night.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/17/2007 - Complete
I Am reviews
I am the rustling in the trees From a twilight summer's breeze. I am the stars that shine so bright On a balmy autumn night. I am sunrise but yet sunset I am joy but yet regret.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/9/2007 - Complete
Life After Death reviews
Winter ice melting, Leaves unfurling, Buds breaking forth from rich soil.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 2/6/2007 - Complete
The Pain is Like an Ocean
The pain is like an ocean: Vast, unpredictable, treacherous in her ways...The ocean is hard to traverse, Not easily navigated, An uncaring adversary...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Published: 2/6/2007 - Complete
Tis A Foraging Trip
Tis a foraging trip through the garden, For the wee ones and their fair queen. Collecting items of import, Ensuring the garden stays green.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Published: 2/6/2007 - Complete
If I Could reviews
If I could, I would wrap twilight around me, Sip moonladen dew from the flowers.I would sleep in a field of chamomile, Bathe in the rain of spring showers.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2/6/2007
Tropical Fantasy reviews
I roll over, sitting up/As his arms wrap around me/And we kiss in the sand/Everything forgotten/Except the feel of skin...
Poetry: Love - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 213 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/6/2006
Drowning reviews
When life gets too confusing that emotions run rampant, it feels like I'm drowning. In a sea of feelings, emotions, and thoughts I can't control.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 448 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/5/2006
Demon Lover
Follow up to my poem Incubus. After all, who am I to refuse a demon? And even if I could... I would not.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Horror/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 254 - Published: 8/5/2006
The Summer Vale
A poem evoking the senses and feelings of summer. The sweet smell of roses scents the air, Mingling with the spiciness of lavender, Creating a rich perfume to intoxicate the senses.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 303 - Published: 8/5/2006
There Is A Sadness I Cannot Make Go Away reviews
There is a sadness I cannot make go away. There is suppression. There is denial. There is surrender. There is even a loss of control.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 137 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/15/2006
Incubus reviews
There is no resisting your passion or violence, the pain or the pleasure; there is no resisting an incubus.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: M - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Published: 11/8/2005
This Choice is Yours
I love you my sweet darling/what more is there to say?/I care for you deeply/And I want you to stay...But either way, this choice is yours/to say yes, or to say no
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 188 - Published: 7/7/2005
Pandora's Punishment reviews
An 'I want to hurt pandora' story. Involves...wanting to hurt pandora, not to mention Hades' help...and tricks
Fiction: Mythology - Rated: M - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,279 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/3/2005
Tears Fall reviews
Uncertainties beat at me on wings of Sorrow/Flitting and slamming against a broken soul/And that is almost a greater Agony/Than having no soul at all
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 567 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5/4/2005
A Fruit Full to Bursting reviews
Moist, red, delicate,/Your mouth a fruit/Full to bursting.
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/30/2005
The Hounds of Hell reviews
They sniff the air and read the signs/The Hell Hounds stop and search their minds/For enemies that they have not/They search for things they've always sought
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 136 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/31/2005
Eyes That Weep Bold Tears of Blood reviews
Eyes that weep bold tears of blood/Doves that fall from up above...
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/10/2004
The Time of Forever
Never ending, ever ending, always ending in the night of the time of forever.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Published: 10/31/2004
Whispered Shadows reviews
The magical realms have been apart from the mortal realms for centuries, but it was not always so. The ambitions of a Prince, the gifts of a Mage, and the knowledge of a tutor are all that stand between the joining of the realms or their destruction.
Fiction: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,275 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10/18/2004 - Published: 8/4/2004
Lovers Who Kill reviews
Lovers who kill with naught but a lie...
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9/19/2004
The Prince of Darkness reviews
Sweet, lovely death he’ll never know/Forced to live a life of woe/He cannot help but asking Why/Why is it Death itself can't die?
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 380 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 2 - Published: 8/23/2004
Phantom Lover reviews
Phantom lover, without light/I shun you as I pull you closer/Phantom lover of the night/How can you yearn for one as me?
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/23/2004
Die My Lovely reviews
Sometimes you have to let the ones you love go...Die my lovely wilting flower/ You grow weaker by the hour...
Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Published: 8/19/2004
What Happened To Us? reviews
What happened to us? Why did you have to mess everything up? Why did I have to let you?
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 253 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/11/2004
The Prince of Fire and Night reviews
Published in the Sept Invitations anthology He throws himself upon his throne/Looks into the midnight sky./Asks the Fates why he’s alone/His only answer is a sigh.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/11/2004
An Image of Love reviews
A lingering scent, deliciously sweet,/An image of love, divine and complete.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/11/2004
Ware the Maenads reviews
'Ware the women running wild/ The Maenads flowing through the trees/ Sweet Bacchus and his merry followers/ Traversing the forests with stunning ease
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/29/2004
A Kiss of Seduction reviews
A kiss of seduction/blood sipped like champagne/a dance of betrayal/from pleasure comes pain.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Angst/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 58 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/26/2004
All's Fair reviews
All's fair in love and war, but to Isabella, it's decidedly unfair that Geoffrey can make her feel so many contradictory emotions.
Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,497 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7/25/2004
When Tears Refuse To Come reviews
When tears refuse to come/ When you feel only numb/When you're left deaf and dumb/ It's then you feel the pain.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 7/25/2004
EYES reviews
Eyes that go squish, eyes rolling around, eyes with dust stuck to the slimey surface of your eye
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6/26/2004
I'm Sinking reviews
I sink through black waters but realize I am being sucked down, but perhaps I am a fish who is swimming down or perhaps I'm just a free-floating mind...
Fiction: Supernatural - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 724 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/26/2004
My Hands reviews
I look at my hands as they sit on the floor...
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Horror/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/26/2004
Mercenary reviews
I wonder if your fate you knew/Knew of those you sought to slew/Or did you blindly serve your king/Buy a sword you could not swing?
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 218 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/23/2004
If The Sun Cried reviews
If the sun cried endless shining tears/If the night was full of just my fears/If the moon glowed dim and stars were brighter/would you hold me closer, tighter?
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 4/17/2004
Red Blossoms reviews
A poem that takes a different approach describing cutting. Yes, I know cutting is a cliched theme, but try reading a poem about cutting by someone who's never actually cut.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 132 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/8/2004
A Meeting of Minds reviews
A humorous poem about love that incorporates an argument in someone's head.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 629 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/26/2004
Less Than Nothing reviews
You make me feel like I'm less than nothing.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/26/2004
My Prince Charming reviews
Requirements for my prince charming! A parody of sorts that somewhat incorporates most fairy tales with a strong male character.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 202 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/19/2004
The Shadows' Call reviews
The war between the Shadow Realm and the Dark Realm goes on, this is just another battle between the Hell Hounds and the Shadows.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 257 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/19/2004
I'm Tired of This reviews
I'm tired of all the bad things in life, of all the people who say they'll make a difference but just end up messing the world up even more. Yep, you guessed, more angst, only this time, I think it fits more into a song.
Poetry: Song - Rated: T - English - Angst/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 313 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/19/2004
Would You Love Me reviews
Yet another bit of angsty love poem that presents a problem and no solution. Are any of us surprised that's what I write? Enjoy!
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 3/17/2004
Ice and Stone reviews
A bit of dark, angsty poetry. They say it's better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved. I disagree. It's better just not to touch at all, to become like ice and stone. Not a cutesy romance poem. My mood's been dark of late, so coming up wi
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/15/2004
Why Do I Care? reviews
R for language. I felt down one day so I poured my feelings into this. Some true, but a lot exaggerated.
Fiction: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 961 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 2/13/2004
Darkness Beckons reviews
Long did the Lady of the Lake walk upon this earth and great were her deeds. But everything must end eventually. This is her ending.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 545 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/22/2004
I Miss You reviews
When a romance doesn't work between friends, does the friendship have to end?
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 1/21/2004