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indieeloise

  • All is Not Fair (Spoken Word)

    A little Greek mythology! For an English project involving "The Odyssey" - due date is 3/13/13. Told in the perspective of Penelope.

    3 min read
  • You look like gold to me

    I gathered this from a note to a suicidal stranger.

    3 min read
  • exploiting grammar in the quiet

    Title is self-explanatory. Many thanks to Persy for spending an hour of her time to help massage the kinks out of this.

    2 min read
  • Dear Forgotten Father

    I guess NaPoWriMo has proved to get my writing juices flowing, after all.

    3 min read
  • Impressions

    On worrying about what others think more than knowing yourself. Yes, the numbering is intentional.

    2 min read
  • Crescent Landings

    I don't like describing my poetry mehh

    1 min read
  • Reincarnation of the Boston Massacre

    America is on her knees.

    4 min read
  • Decomposition

    Urgently need in-depth review(s) on this, as this has been accepted for a literary magazine/possible scholarship opportunity & I need to edit it down.

    2 min read
  • Paradoxical Roots

    Hopefully emerging from the limp noodle stage..

    1 min read
  • Humanity Is Not a Lost Cause

    Intended as spoken word.

    2 min read
  • It's Not You, but It Isn't Me, Either
    1 min read
  • Expulsion

    Dug up one of my NaPoWriMo poems.

    1 min read
  • Forgotten Ripples Turn to Glass

    more napowrimo junk

    1 min read
  • Stalemate

    On depression

    1 min read
  • The Circle of Life (in the key of Em)

    Shout-out to thewritersdream (aka Dreamy) for the prompt (trees)!

    1 min read
  • Extinguisher

    the product of my first ever poetry request

    1 min read
  • This, My Excavation

    Inspired by Bon Iver's "Re: Stacks"

    1 min read
  • darkness in a shade of light blue

    On US drone activity.

    1 min read
  • the carpenter's son

    Prose poetry - planning on submitting this to the Kenyon Review. Need feedback please!!

    1 min read
  • White Elephant

    On the mindset of white privilege and cultural appropriation.

    1 min read
  • Conformity, a Virtue

    Inspired by Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" and social issues as of late.

    1 min read
  • To the guitarist with the crease in his left boot

    Open letter to a certain musician but hey it could apply for all

    1 min read
  • On Being Content with Only Scraping the Sky

    You're welcome, @Autumns

    1 min read
  • (for once i'm at a loss for a title, please help)

    In the style of Robert Gray (check him out)

    1 min read
  • Self-expansion: A spoken word poem

    A spoken word poem: an attempt to capture raw emotion post-breakup.

    3 min read
  • Audible at Night

    For dogs' word-prompt poetry contest.

    5 min read
  • Unrefined (Slam Poetry)

    My first attempt at spoken word/slam poetry. Video link is included.

    5 min read
  • Sometimes when I miss you

    i. Sometimes when I miss you, I write stories of love and redemption of long journeys and leaving the past behind Sometimes when I miss you, I ...

    8 min read
  • swimming.

    I am swimming in a sea of youth Rain falls on this ocean, Not only precipitation, but also rain of divulgence, of revelations formerly unknown Take a breath ...

    2 min read
  • Petals of the Fallen

    Gone, but never forgotten - in honor of the twenty flowers who entered heaven’s gates December 14, 2012. I came across the Painter today His gently worn ...

    2 min read
  • fingers

    On the fear of having your words read aloud~

    9 min read
  • Would he cry?

    Did he cry, when he first saw his daughter’s face? Rocking late into the night Did her wails of infancy still fascinate? Would he pray, when at seven, ...

    4 min read


If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson