burning_sands
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burning_sands
Posted twenty pieces
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For all manner of poems from non-rhyming haiku to couplet sets. Poetry comes much more unnaturally than prose to me but I do try.
Commentary for Samael:
The original first stanza of this poem just hit me about 1am as I was laying in bed a few days ago. Of course I had to get out of bed and write it down and of course my roommate had never seen me do that before. I'm sure she was either amused or thought I was crazy. I'm willing to bet crazy. Anyway. Don't dig too deep, it's nothing special that way. And p.s. I hate rhyming.
Commentary for reciprocity:
we have to write haikus for religions class. haikus are easy. sometimes they're true.
Commentary for Bacchae:
Alternative title is 'Dance as Worship'. Written for my winter-term poetry class. I think I have the potential to have learned a lot from that class but have yet to explore what I might have learned. This was work shopped by my full class, which wasn't nearly as terrifying as I thought, though I was exasperated by the amount of people with no classical background. However, one boy's commentary on this piece was almost poetry in itself.
Commentary for What is Written:
A simple syllabic poem, seven syllables to the line, written for poetry class in January.
Commentary for Silence, Stillness, Night were the Universe:
Reference: EAP's The Pit and the Pendulum
Commentary for Presence of Mind:
This is pretty much a true poem, based on a night that did happen and happened this way. I don't know if I like it or not and whether I do or don't. I don't know why. I think some of the line breaks really work and some not so much and word choice was really a struggle. I am contemplating sending it to be in a very casual publication for the spiritual center on campus but can't decide yet if it is a thing I want my name on.
Commentary for Paradigm:
yeah, no.
so hopefully you've read When Worlds Collide They Do Not Shatter. If you haven't you'll live. it's the first piece in this series.
Each successive chapter is a story that encompasses a line from the initial piece (hopefully they will go in order). I started with what I pictured as I wrote the line (yes, I still remember though it's been more than a year since I wrote When Worlds Collide...) and went from there. We'll see how this goes, I've been meaning to do it for ages. (as I originally said "This might be a bit confusing as each sentence is from a story I may or may not have written yet. They go together and they do not.")
The first line is a reference to Holly Black's book Valiant and the third to the web comic asofterworld, which I absolutely adore. If you wouldn't mind commenting your favorite line or story, then please do so.
Commentary for In Twilight Time:
title from a moody blues song, points if you knew that.
For purps. I have no clue where this came from but it smashed into me after rereading Archaeology on the Moon and I'm not the kind to deviate from what I'm given. It's supposed to be a bit like a legend and there's some mad crude mixing of Islamic and Hindu mythology but I hope you like it. merry xmas :D
the romance I have yet to experience.
originally not broken up this way but I know how indyfluency kids dislike reading long things.
this was written for three reasons.
1) I was suffering from mad writers block and I found a prompt I enjoyed (describe two characters through the way they think about each other, do not mention names)
2) my best friend likes it when i write things that make her cry with their emo sweetness.
3) i needed a 'short story' for a mandatory contest for English class... this actually did rather well.
for radtastic. written as one piece, broken up for those strange IF kids who only read long things if they absolutely must...
inspired from quotes from radtastic's pieces, which were indeed used in the piece(s).
This is the series in which goes the users daylogs, please keep non-daylogs out of here, and keep daylogs in here. Also, do not edit the title of this, or pieces in it will not be recognised as daylogs, thanks.
3d!t: ramblings and such i want to share that are either unorganized or that simply are not meant to be taken as some sort of literary work (think blogging in rant or poetic style)