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Haikus, Tankas and Rengas Volume I by
Manuel Fajar reviews
Humor, 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.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 228 - Words: 28,830 - Reviews: 129 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 4/23/2007 - Published: 11/28/2004
Hippie Child by
breakme reviews
a haiku
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/2/2005
Romance is dead by
willowzbitch reviews
angsty love 3 stanza haiku, (is that a Renga? anyone). The betrayal of a lover. R+R
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/28/2004
Otherworldly Visit by
Misanthropic Sylph reviews
Recently a friend admitted she was cutting herself and spurned on this poem. Another old one I'm fond of.
Poetry: Friendship - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/16/2004
kiss by
delphian reviews
tangled arms, twisted hair... my throat screams
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/2/2004
Sexy like Philosophy by
nefaria18 reviews
Second line should be a bunch of letters "spinning" in a circle but spacing got screwed up as usual. Rated for weaponry references.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 229 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 2 - Published: 2/21/2004
Purple Eyes by
Mime reviews
For Les Yeux Violets, because she deserves a poem all to herself. [winks]
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 3 - Published: 2/7/2004
Stray Cat Strut by
Kira of Hecale reviews
The Walk of Shame for a homeless girl.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 535 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Published: 2/1/2004
Collection of Nightmares by
Anjeni Windsinger reviews
Wander among the demons of the night, where mercy is unheard of, and screams echo in the uninhibited realm. (4)
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 4 - Words: 481 - Reviews: 38 - Favs: 2 - Updated: 1/7/2004 - Published: 12/5/2003
no 1989 by
Lieschen reviews
...little girl in pale blue...neck strewn with wedding pearls...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Published: 11/19/2003
Winter in Osaka by
Mitsunaga reviews
Too many summer Haikus neh?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 2 - Published: 8/15/2003
The Ancient Butterfly Dance by
glitterjewele reviews
The first and quite possibly the last piece that I will post that is not included in a collection. Enjoy!
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Romance/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 50 - Favs: 11 - Published: 4/22/2003 - Complete
Ghost by
Miamouse reviews
More of a lingering memory of someone you loved. As usual open to reader's interpretation.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 3 - Published: 4/19/2003
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Confessions of a Golden Calf reviews
you ought to know your idols.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 200 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/15/2005
NonEuclidean Geometry reviews
We are but so many sets of angular coordinates.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 110 - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 11 - Published: 4/6/2005
crash reviews
oh didn't you know, child? it all falls apart in the end.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/3/2005
whales reviews
you won't know what I mean, but I don't care.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 5 - Published: 11/7/2004
ghosts reviews
empty promises, empty arms-the ghost of you everywhere but just beyond my grasp. Cut haiku...or rather, chopped, since I cut up the cut form. Deal with it.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 27 - Favs: 4 - Published: 7/9/2004
no ever after reviews
don't kid yourself.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 5 - Published: 7/6/2004
From the Inside Out reviews
Utilizes 3-5-3 haiku, although they've been transformed into tankas. And used to sandwich free-verse...but this board would be so boring (pun non-intended) without variety, no?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/18/2004
hell week is over reviews
this isn't really poetic. but ap's are done. yes. done. throw away your princeton reviews, kids. bc calc and apus are DEAD.
Poetry: School - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 248 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/9/2004
Immaterial reviews
madness would imply anger, and i'm hardly in an aggravated/rather elevated state. and yet they still call me mad...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 201 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 2 - Published: 4/27/2004
In Vain reviews
Shakespearean sonnet, for Black Rider (from xmas). I realized after posting that I had left out a stanza...so now, 4 months later, you get the final four lines. Enjoy. Original included.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 245 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 4/15/2004 - Published: 12/25/2003
Spring on Fictionpress reviews
Happy Easter...happy spring! tanka
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 25 - Published: 4/11/2004
lose, she whispered reviews
if I told the truth you would refuse to believe, and even lies you shall not fully understand.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/5/2004
the thin and lovely smile reviews
shall creep in a soft wave over fading features as the whispers of myth fly away, fly away. tanka
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 20 - Published: 3/8/2004
oh that exhilarating FEELING! reviews
Something less depressing to pass the bleak greys of winter. wink yes you owe me
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 2/26/2004
the day they jailed the colors reviews
concept poem. took me forever to edit and is probably still not the way i want it. inspired partly by don mc-clean and partly by ivan denisovich. ah, communism.
Poetry: Politics - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/26/2004
cicadas reviews
I suppose once in a while we all yearn for what we know we've lost, somehow, somewhere along the way. tanka
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/4/2004
Riddle Me This reviews
edit: the second riddle (third chapter) has been fixed. These riddles are tricky and not for the faint of-er-brain. Enjoy!
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 263 - Reviews: 27 - Updated: 1/28/2004 - Published: 1/8/2004
You are the Salt reviews
that is thrown on my open wounds that you made, and meanwhile I shall be the knife that cleaves your breast at your own hand, and together to hell we shall united be torn apart. (this is r for a reason. If you normally like my "pretty" stuff, you pr
Poetry: General - Rated: M - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 334 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 1 - Published: 1/26/2004
clarity reviews
think-piece, perhaps. Interpret as you will but please not stupidly. If you can't say anything intelligent don't say anything at all.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 2 - Published: 1/20/2004
lamentish thing reviews
I don't know why I'm posting this. Blah. Everything is blah right now. I'm screwing myself over. Sorry.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 56 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 1/19/2004
lose youth reviews
"We swore once/along the side of the spray/we'd be as Pan/and never grow up/except our wish backfired..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 328 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/31/2003
Emerge reviews
Follow to the river, child...
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/27/2003
holiday spirit reviews
With all the over-commercialization of modern holidays, sometimes we forget the true meaning...hopefully un-cliché. For Magpie.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 12/27/2003
calm before the storm reviews
for Zanmath. Parallel chaos...which is odd really, because chaos and parallel don't seem to be quite compatible
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 348 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/24/2003
fae reviews
spliced haiku (reg-reg) for frugale, in the style of forest walk. I think every true poet has had a fixation on fairies, at some point in their life...they are poetry embodied, spirits of varied substance dancing on logic in the forest glades...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/22/2003
dust reviews
tombs and millenia entrance me...can you find the meaning? Perhaps...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Published: 12/19/2003
Christmas Gifts reviews
A pseudo-sonnet, you could say. My Christmas gift to all of you is-well, read the author's note or my profile, if it's still up there. And make requests soon, please, so I have time!
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 12/13/2003
Collision Course reviews
Spliced haiku (a cut and regular-yeah, I like this form. The truth is coming out and the lies are pressing down...the day of judgement coming, from the god(s) and from the people...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 12/13/2003
forest walk reviews
formatting fun...hopefulling chilling haiku (pl.), sliced, diced, enmeshed, and generally rearranged. Inspired by fog on the walk home today. Enjoy!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 3 - Published: 12/10/2003
Losing Grip reviews
Tyburn-attempted after being wowed by Children of the Root's example. A new format that I've yet to master, I'd appreciate your comments/criticism/whatever. Everything collapses, and I can't hold on...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 12/9/2003
Pulse reviews
Reverse haiku (7-5-7), first in a while. I kind of like this one. It's different than my usual tone, imho. if you really want to know what it's about, you'll read the poem. It's only three lines, guys.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 18 - Published: 12/3/2003
To Friends reviews
My 100th post is for you-for everyone who's said a kind word, for the good ones, the close ones, the ones who cared when no one needed to, the ones who let me cry. Here's to you all. And many of you know who you are.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Published: 11/30/2003
Fall like Dolls reviews
The phoenix may fly and the angels may dive, but when the ice is slippery, it's all too easy to slide into the underworld...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 366 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 5 - Published: 11/23/2003
Google Love Gone Bad reviews
is irritated eh...sort of a poetic rant on the flaws of a certain piece of software offered by what is generally my favorite search engine. God I hate pop-ups. Not intended to be pretentious, in any way.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 11/23/2003
demons reviews
At the cusp of a worldwide war, a struggling empire desperate for a scapegoat turned to a religious minority within their own country and slaughtered them, the first real genocide, brutally murdering millions. Think you know who I'm talking about? Don't
Poetry: Politics - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 357 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 2 - Published: 11/20/2003
last reviews
3-5-3, a la Miz E. Mak. Calvary. My first shot at this, so feel free to critique.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 11/13/2003
static reviews
November 5, 2003-I'll never forget.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 17 - Published: 11/9/2003
Hope reviews
It's never too late to pick up the pieces-the stained glass of cathedrals is but broken bottles rearranged...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 1 - Published: 11/4/2003
Si Je Pleurais reviews
in french, but with a translation included for those who don't speak it. I just love the way the words sound in this language...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - French - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 10 - Published: 10/29/2003
Lost Chance reviews
we've all let a few slip away...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 10/26/2003
So Ironic reviews
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Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 10/20/2003
Chameleon reviews
But didn't you know? You're not the only one who feels as you do; the ordinary people you imagine are no better than yourself. Why steal a soul when yours is hardly lacking? Alas you fail to see and try to blend in with the crowd, quilt yourself a new
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/20/2003
Sanctuary reviews
Sometimes you just need something to hold on to.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 15 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/19/2003
Can't Set Me Free reviews
Cut, cut, tanka, cut, stanza cut...what can I say, I love mixing and matching. Political: envision a future where we're afraid to think freely, else chaos should erupt from our minds and mouths...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10/19/2003
Sky Castles reviews
Reality is imaginary, imagination real; escape with me from those silly laws of physics, toss your textbooks in the trash and fly away to Jupiter's moon...
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 259 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 3 - Published: 10/16/2003
Plea to the Princess reviews
This isn't a haiku in any shape or form, but this is Princess Mulan's domain, and so it's fitting for this to be here rather than anywhere else. Please come back...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 288 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 10/14/2003
falling reviews
*sigh* I hate to write generic angst...right now everything sucks so badly I can't even think of words that make it make sense. Maybe later when I'm not feeling so crappy I'll revise this.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 10/13/2003
sunrise reviews
Good mother earth once again gives birth to the downy chick sun sweet rising...
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10/13/2003
On Being Confirmed reviews
...or being in the process of, rather. This all just seems so fake to me, but then again, isn't that what it is for me to go and confirm my belief in something in which my beliefs are all but firm? Fake?
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 305 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10/12/2003
Apocalypse reviews
ring around the rosie...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 176 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 2 - Published: 10/7/2003
odyssey reviews
we'll tell only the stars our secret...
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 195 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/4/2003
legacy reviews
It took just one...one man with his one god to change the course of history forever. May not be what you're expecting...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 160 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 10/2/2003
all that you love will be carried away reviews
My thanks to Stephen King, muse on this choka...reminisce on the ghosts of past lives as they whisper you secrets in raspy long-gone voices...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 40 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 3 - Published: 9/27/2003
Comments reviews
*collective gasp* yes, it's true-I've actually updated! Comment no. 6 is another reverse haiku (7-5-7).
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 6 - Words: 331 - Reviews: 32 - Updated: 9/25/2003 - Published: 5/12/2003
Purge reviews
My first reverse haiku (7-5-7). Can fire make me clean...?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 9/23/2003
Covenant reviews
It was made for a reason...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 233 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 3 - Published: 9/16/2003
Watch the Bird reviews
An odd poem in a format I've never tried before...religious, social commentary if you look for it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 232 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 9/14/2003
wingless reviews
I'm just a fallen angel/trying to flap useless stumps...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 9/11/2003
Saved reviews
Ah, the sweet smell of salvation. Cut haiku.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 89 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 9/7/2003
Such Promises reviews
contrast poem-how is it to fly? how is it to fall?
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9/6/2003
Welcome to my Mind reviews
More wordplay, except this time it actually has a point. "I wish to be lyrically complex..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 8/25/2003
example reviews
another tanka, woo! They're always watching her, try as she may to forget...wish as she might that she didn't have to...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8/18/2003
jealousy reviews
just a drop can destroy a lifelong friendship...a tanka
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 21 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/17/2003
Empty reviews
This is a bit hard to post...mainly because it's so true. And the fact that it's true makes it almost embarrassing, because it's things I don't want to admit...I'm losing my life...slowly...voluntarily, although I occasionally try to save it
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8/14/2003
Color me Clear reviews
And I'm (finally) back with a non-angsty poem that I actually like."Color me clear/translucent transparency..." Includes reference to the Muppets.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 28 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 8/12/2003
Better to Fall reviews
than to be dropped.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 48 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 2 - Published: 8/11/2003
Life's a Bitch reviews
...and then you die
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/11/2003
Lace reviews
Another darker poem from me...battered, bruised, with porcelain scars, she still remembers days when she wore lace...
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 92 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7/24/2003
Balloon reviews
Er...pretty dark stuff, which I usually don't write...involves a balloon and a tragedy. That's all I'll say. Leave a review.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 73 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/21/2003
suffixalliteration reviews
Wordplay-doesn't really mean anything, but it sounds cool if you read it out loud.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7/18/2003
Chocolát reviews
Hardly what you'd expect on the subject...
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7/15/2003
Innocence reviews
My first actual haiku in a long time...I actually like this one. Thanks to Heart of the Sword for the formatting tips!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7/7/2003
Lies reviews
Ever notice the striking similarity between a spider and a liar?
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 38 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7/6/2003
Rubber Ducky reviews
Cut haiku for the bathtub. "For love of rubber duckies..."
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 7/5/2003
Holograph reviews
Reality, schmeality.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 115 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/5/2003
Peach reviews
can a peach bleed?
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7/3/2003
swell reviews
you can look at it in one of two ways: either it's complete randomness, or it has a deeper, hidden meaning. I'm not goin to say that either conclusion would be completely correct or incorrect.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6/27/2003
Gone With the Wind reviews
kudos to Margaret [insert last name here], to whom I owe the title. It's so true, though...so many things you take for granted can disappear in just a moment, just the time it takes to blink. Gone...gone with the wind...please kill me now before i choke
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 72 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/27/2003
daybreak reviews
A modified tanka-see ch 5 of comments or the a/n for explanation-involves flowers, dye, tears, and mascara. And, of course, daybreak-hence the title...yes, I'm quite aware of my condition...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 138 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/27/2003
What a pity reviews
Cut haiku-I was a caterpillar...
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 26 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/26/2003
Summer reviews
ok, so maybe i have a twisted imagination...here you go, folks. Summer. (don't fret, it's only about a cricket, for heavens sake.)
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 36 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6/25/2003
On the Power of Love reviews
The idealistic young man preached the power of love. The battered old woman knew better.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 6/22/2003
child soldier reviews
In hundreds of countries, armies are taking children to serve on the front lines. Why? Because they are "dispensable." If a child dies, they can always take another. These children don't volunteer. They are stolen from their homes. Read and forward
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 6/15/2003
Ode to Sugar reviews
Taken from my latin america test, decided to post it here b/c I like it A 30 line or so thing in the style of Neruda: magical realism, all that good stuff. enjoy!
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 6/11/2003
A Mother's Epitaph reviews
title self-explanatory; self-sacrifice, etc. 5 lines
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6/11/2003
Sweatshop Capitalism reviews
cut haiku sequence-you could say it mourns for the child victims of capitalism.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/4/2003
Stone Lover reviews
first attempt at a sonnet. Criticism appreciated, flames used to toast marshmallows. "My dear, in your perfection I would keep you/still and perfect, Grecian bust, forevermore..."
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 143 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 6/3/2003
doubtchaossuicidal reviews
*exhales* read if you wish...sneak a glimpse of my mind as I torture myself with doubts, with beliefs, with questions...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6/2/2003
Slipping reviews
*sigh* this faith a snake from fingers falls...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 16 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6/2/2003
Freshmanitis reviews
A new form-presenting-the tanku! Oh! Who's brilliant! (er...or too lazy to reformat the poem into either a tanka or a haiku...but oh well. R&R)
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5/29/2003
sweet poison reviews
let's call it human nature, shall we? Basically I can't decide where this ought to go. Leave a review telling me to take it down if you really care that much.
Poetry: Nature - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5/26/2003
Regaining my Faith reviews
slowly but surely...
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5/26/2003
Smithereens reviews
you smashed me like a china doll...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 153 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5/20/2003
avocado reviews
A choka. If you want to look at it deeply (word), then it means something. If not-well, it's a poem about an avocado.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5/18/2003
Doubts reviews
My first piece of fiction, rather than poetry-please don't flame this. It's completely true. Lately, I've been having doubts...
Fiction: Spiritual - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 828 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 5/18/2003
I am, and I am not reviews
I am that silly little girl...I am not that lowly snake...see how many hearts will break
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5/12/2003
Thief reviews
If I stole away your soul, still I'd not be as guilty...
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 19 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5/12/2003
Superficial reviews
why, I *wonder* what this could be about....
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 5/12/2003
cry reviews
ok--I admit, it's not really a haiku...or even a cut haiku. But the syllabic meter (?) at least starts out 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1, or something like that....anyways. I just thought it would fit better here. Read and leave me a review!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 37 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5/11/2003
bliss reviews
now that i think of it, it's a bit sad that "bliss" should be a fantasy....
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5/8/2003
For once, why don't you? reviews
Why am *I* always the one who does these things? Why not *you* for a change?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 24 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5/7/2003
Hold my hand reviews
not ready to let go....a short, rather pointless haiku, but I actually like it. A real haiku this time, not cut or a tanka or a sandwich.....
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 15 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 5/6/2003
Jump reviews
Quod me nutruit, me destruit....
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/6/2003
if reviews
if for one second you could just forget...if i could peel away all those layers and layers...
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 90 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 5/3/2003
angel reviews
my angel couldn't save me....
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 1 - Published: 5/1/2003
feathergirl reviews
a cut haiku sandwich....thanks again to Princess Mulan for introducing me to the form! ::see those feathers drifting...?::
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 4/30/2003
Song of the Nymph reviews
previously titled "the maybe-child"...you tell me which one works better. An old poem of mine that I dug up while cleaning under my be, but I actually like it.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 87 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4/29/2003
I'll Paint You reviews
With a palette of your dreamings, I'll paint you....
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4/29/2003
Monthly Blues reviews
we all get down in the dumps now and then....
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 70 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/28/2003
Burns reviews
When hatred consumes you, you become living fire...but when the fire has burnt out, all that is left is ash. Odd format, cut haiku, normal haiku, and regular verse.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 4/25/2003
Blind reviews
"You have 20/20 vision/But boy, you sure are blind."
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/25/2003
It's my Birthday! reviews
tanka, written while *gasp* procrastinating! Again!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 53 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4/22/2003
late night essay reviews
so tired…curse…procrastination
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 4/21/2003
egg hunt's end reviews
cut haiku--Happy Easter!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/20/2003
maggie reviews
i was holding my 2-year old sister when I wrote this....she's babbling about the keyboard right now ("a big one here....and a little one....)
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 13 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4/20/2003
Nineteen reviews
I wasn't fair to the soldiers in my previous poem, so hopefully this will make up for it. War from the viewpoint of a young American soldier.
Poetry: War - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 538 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 4 - Published: 4/18/2003
Civilian Hero reviews
a tribute in cut haiku
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4/13/2003
She Wore White reviews
For the victims of war; a plea for peace.
Poetry: War - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 2 - Published: 4/13/2003
If I Can't reviews
If I can't have you....
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 18 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 4/12/2003
Alzheimers reviews
my interpretation....a real haiku instead of a tanka, for a change!
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4/10/2003
Cut me Down reviews
Not sure if this is good yet, do tell--just a couple of lines that came to me today.
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4/10/2003
First reviews
First what? I'm sure you can guess....another tanka
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4/9/2003
glass reviews
Like most of my poems, the meaning *is* the poem, so a summary would rather ruin it, don't you think? How much can a person resemble glass?
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 4/8/2003
the blind man reviews
Imagine a life without sight....what would you see?
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 62 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 4/8/2003
abortion reviews
Basically, the title tells it all....a quick analogy, I guess. I'd like to hear your views on the subject, so tell me what you think in a review after reading!
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 17 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/8/2003
It's Over reviews
Ever been in one of those relationships where you can't stand to be around the person but can't see yourself without them?
Poetry: General - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/7/2003