My Stories 27
June Fever
School assignment on rhetoric devices.
Poetry: Nature, K, English, Parody, words: 152, 5/28/2010
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Rivers
Written for a friend in April 2009. Finished for myself in January 2010.
Poetry: Life, T, English, Hurt/Comfort, words: 149, 1/20/2010
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Fall
We had no right to have her, but cancer didn't either. Why even the withering stun us with their beauty.
Poetry: Life, K+, English, Hurt/Comfort, words: 98, 9/28/2008
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The Monster Prince II
I can't leave the subject alone. Story in the works.
Poetry: War, K+, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 201, 8/24/2008
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Angel, Raven, Phoenix
To be unpoetic: Things with Wings. Reexploring, rediscovering, and reinventing old themes, because you CAN teach an old poem new tricks.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 163, favs: 3, 8/16/2008
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Le Chasse
Writing exercise. When your friend has a gun aimed at your heart...
Fiction: Thriller, K+, English, Parody, words: 531, 8/11/2008
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The Monster Prince
His mouth has become as accustomed to saying "yes, sir" as "I love you".
Poetry: War, K+, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 121, 7/29/2008
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The Postmodernist's War
So twist that bayonet in a little further and let's play our Happy War Song.
Poetry: War, T, English, words: 142, 7/13/2008
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What We Did to Me
When the pain gets too much, sometimes you have to drain it into the barrel of a pen and let it all out.
Poetry: Love, K, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 35, favs: 1, 5/26/2008
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The Glassmaker's Lament
The best way to understand the heart is to break it.' - Deborah Blum
Poetry: Love, K, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 194, favs: 2, 5/26/2008
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ColdBlooded Boys
It's all fun and games till someone breaks a heart... but we love them anyway. Nonautobiographical.
Poetry: Love, K+, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 66, 5/26/2008
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Love Never Does
There is nothing we wouldn't do for love, and so there is plenty love would not do to us.
Poetry: Love, K, English, Romance, words: 130, 5/25/2008
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Heartbeat II
Life goes on. She doesn't. A sequel to 'Heartbeat'.
Poetry: Haiku, K, English, Romance & Tragedy, words: 16, 5/25/2008
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Gravestone
And we trade thoughts on death like children trading marbles.
Poetry: Haiku, K+, English, Hurt/Comfort, words: 13, favs: 1, 5/25/2008
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Her Last Note
A follow-up to Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose".
Poetry: Haiku, K+, English, Tragedy & Romance, words: 19, 5/24/2008
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Anthem
As patriotic as school spirit gets. Based on a poem we all know well but fragmented in fear of copyright infringement . Stepping outside my poetry box for this one!
Poetry: School, K, English, Parody, words: 30, 5/24/2008
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Doubtless Heaven
A two-line shotglass of faith and love - more intoxicating than vodka. Am I talking to him or to Him? You decide.
Poetry: Religion, K, English, Romance & Spiritual, words: 26, 4/24/2008
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All:Love
In life, the winner has 'nothing'.
Poetry: Love, K, English, Romance, words: 20, 4/20/2008
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Heartbeat
Her aftermath of his death.
Poetry: Haiku, K+, English, Romance & Hurt/Comfort, words: 16, favs: 1, 4/20/2008