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Haiku for Phillip

I had to write a haiku about my mentor/mentee relationship with Phillip last week (long story involving a conference I’m presenting at). Most people did things rhyming and contemporary. I opted to go...

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Chancellor

I wrote this about a friend back in June 2004. In some ways it’s one of those “life got in our way” things, and in others it’s specific people – his fiance, my husband. In the end, though, it boils …...

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Cost*Benefit*Analysis

For a while, it looked like I would be providing lyrics for a group; sort of pop/EBM, although the sound was never really defined. This is one of the original proposals. I don’t have a date for it, but...

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Dream Dawn

This firmly solidifies my nomination to the black crayon club. I like some of the aliteration, but overall roll my eyes at it. the harsh light of morning shattering the dreams dreamt before dawn...

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Haunted Heart

A poem, a song – who knows. From the heart, anyhow. I’ve always been good at lines like “I remember my jealousy louder than your screams”; figuring out what to do with them has been the challenge. in a...

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Dark Reality

A snippet of something that was being worked into a song – I like this bit; the rest I could do without. What’s your religion Religion and spirituality Crookedness and truth, an actual axis of evil...

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Lucifer’s Fall

Another of those “poem? lyric? who cares” bits that was written as one, worked into the other… I like the sentiment. I’m noticing one person was the inspiration for a lot of these, even though we were...

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Nos In Temptation

I cringe at how awful this Latin probably is… the idea was a Gregorian chant/EBM style song. sic ergo vos orabitis Pater noster qui in caelis es sanctificetur nomen tuum veniat regnum tuum fiat...

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Alto to Mezzo – Soprano

I’m not sure what to make of this, in retrospect. I have no real memory of it, so am not sure of the intent. Gloria in excelsis Dei Sed libera nos a malo liquid fire flowing in my veins burning …...

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Semper Amemus

Oiy – more language I probably mangled. Semper fidelis Pari passu Amor vincit omnia Semper amemus Semper fidelis En bien aimer Pari passu Por tous jours Amor vincit omnia Mon coeur est a vous Semper...

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Wild Monsoon Waking

Sometimes, you hear lyrics but you hear them wrong… and end up liking your version better. it’s the rain that i hear falling dropping down my face like tears a wild monsoon waking it’s marching at the...

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3am Sheets

More “from the random files of…” I don’t talk to the person this was written in mind of, anymore. Not really a surprise, either – some things, you just see coming. It’s 3am, just to bed, my feet...

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gone supernova

the constellations of my sky have changed the night dims in response to the fading light of a star gone supernova

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golden goose

I was a silly goose once When the wind swept thru my hair The grass lay at my feet And I ran for the sheer joy of movement and motion Silly is a word we associate With the young      and … Continue...

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Eye of Eve

This to this: I am not Eve, slender and lithe, with straight bleached hair and blue eyes (or curled brown and streaked with red, chocolate pools for irises; natural redhead or fiery fake). I am not...

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Rights and Passage

It seems like it must be a passage of adulthood, a rite that no one wants to pass but everyone eventually does, that one of authors becoming people, people flawed and awful. For some of us, that rite...

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