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Post by Allya on Sept 30, 2011 11:43:24 GMT -5
Late September Harvest
Dare I pick up the fallen fruit,
fill the cup and drain the juice
close my eyes to look through
and see what lies hidden in truth?
This breeze of words has made me move,
pushed to the verge of ancient new.
Perhaps instead of I and you,
in place of “saids”, “knows”, and “knews”,
we prune our tongues and plant our shoes
and seed what comes from fallen fruit.
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Post by Allya on Oct 2, 2011 12:16:14 GMT -5
Oh nifty, Scarlet Literary Mag is going to publish 4 more of my poems in their winter edition.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Oct 3, 2011 1:02:47 GMT -5
Oh nifty, Scarlet Literary Mag is going to publish 4 more of my poems in their winter edition. Nice. |
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Post by Allya on Oct 5, 2011 9:52:16 GMT -5
A note for those who read this. Do I agree with the myriad and confusing list of demands from the recent protestors? No. (They are honestly too disjointed at this point to disagree or agree with.) But often times when I see something striking in the news I like to place myself in that persons' shoes and imagine what I would say if I were them. (Much like my Definition of Marriage poem.) That said, here's a song I wrote to the tune of Dylan's "Times They Are A-Changin'" for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement:
We Are The People
The time has come
To march again
To raise up our voices
In choir to defend
The rights of the many,
The broken and bent
Who bore all that
They were able
Now crushed by the weight
Of the one percent
You’ve forgotten that we are the people.
The waters of fortune
Have not trickled down
We can’t reap a harvest
From such arid ground
With your head under water
You can’t hear the sound
As we drown in the dust
Of your fables
The lost generation
Cries to be found
You’ve forgotten that we are the people.
You’ve bailed out the boats
But flooded the rafts
Now you sail to safe waters
While we cling to aft
Your captains are laughing
Fat from the graft
Forgetting that names
Are just labels
That those who are first
Can quickly turn last
You’ve forgotten that we are the people.
When the fleecing was done
You bloodied the shears
Penning your sheep
With shadows and fear
Then ran us in circles
‘Til it was no longer clear
How to enter
Or leave the stable
When the middle is broken
The end’s surely near
You’ve forgotten that we are the people.
You’ve taken our homes
So we’ll occupy yours
We’ll carry the signs
To your golden doors
We don’t need a handout
But a way to ensure
That you can’t steal our place
At the table
Your bombs have been dropped
Now prepare for the war
We’ve remembered that we are the people.
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Post by Allya on Oct 31, 2011 17:03:49 GMT -5
Barren
In telescopic reverie I see
Your tiny digits encircled ‘round mine
Part of but so much more than I can be
Eyes mirroring what I cannot define
Grasping, you hold love unconditional
Before the dust has ever touched your feet
A rapture, wholly inconceivable
Fleeing before the image can complete
I hold your father’s rough and trembling hand
And learn that you are never meant to be
Such darkness in this white room cannot stand
I drown in clinical reality
My body with desert womb betrays me
So never will I hold you, my baby
**Not autobiographical, just my attempt at a sonnet today.**
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Post by Allya on Nov 8, 2011 21:54:17 GMT -5
My poem "Summers Sweet Siren Song" got nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Woot!
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 9, 2011 3:42:45 GMT -5
Wow, you're on a roll here.
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Post by James on Nov 9, 2011 4:13:27 GMT -5
The Prize even has its own wikipedia page!
Congratulations!
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Post by Allya on Nov 9, 2011 8:30:56 GMT -5
Yeah I have like zero chance of getting any further but it is pretty cool to be nominated. It definitely makes me want to keep plugging away and submitting.
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Post by Allya on Nov 27, 2011 11:25:42 GMT -5
Had to write something for a flash fiction contest on another writing forum I'm a part of so I figured I'd throw it on here too. It's nothing awesome but what the hell:
Workmen delivered the trunk with a thunk on the basement floor. Edward paid and chuckled with them about the weather upstairs while I stood eyeing the cage of memories. With unsteady hand, I lifted the latch and swung the top wide. I stepped back and let the dust bloom into the dimly lit room and slowly filter down. I didn’t hear Edward on the stairs so I jumped a bit when he slipped his arm around my waist. “Is this all we are,” I whispered, “old silk and cotton, dust in the edges of the frames?”
She had been a force, my mother. Alive she would rumble through lives and lay waste to the frames you had built, the truths you had told yourself. I had spent years looking for any safe harbor before I found Edward. He was made of sterner stuff and just laughed as my mother batted at the periphery of our lives. I clung to my rock as my fingers drifted through the waves of memories found in the trunk. The clothes she wore, the way she smelled, the things she loved, all neatly piled into this one box. I smiled, knowing that these were just remnants of a passing storm.
Upstairs I heard the rumble of children running through the house and turned to look at my Edward. He nodded, closed the lid, and slid the trunk into a dark corner . “Everything changes,” he said. I grabbed his hand and hoped he was right.
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Post by Allya on Dec 16, 2011 16:48:12 GMT -5
I still need to insert one picture when I get home but attached is an article I'm going to submit to Cracked entitled "Top Ten Reasons Star Wars: The Old Republic is my WoW Killer." I also need to edit a few more times to make sure I fixed everything so if you read it and you see something I'd appreciate the heads up. Thanks for the help in posting Kaez. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 16:57:02 GMT -5
That was an enjoyable read, Allya. You really captured the humor of a Cracked article. The captions were great, too - but I've always been a sucker for captions.
The only things I noticed were the word 'eminent' was supposed to be 'imminent', and 'more sure' should have been 'surer'.
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Post by Allya on Dec 16, 2011 18:28:35 GMT -5
Thanks! I fixed those errors, added that last picture, and changed a couple of captions. Attachments:
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Post by Allya on Dec 20, 2011 8:35:00 GMT -5
Alrighty so I found out from Cracked that they only publish opinion articles from their regular columnists soo...I'm going to make an article thread here so that I can link to it. Sorry in advance for the double-post.
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Dec 20, 2011 9:09:29 GMT -5
Alrighty so I found out from Cracked that they only publish opinion articles from their regular columnists soo...I'm going to make an article thread here so that I can link to it. Sorry in advance for the double-post. If you go to "write for us" they tell you how to sign up for a writers workshop where you can put the article. If you didn't already know that. |
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