"Crimson flames tied through my ears ( Read more... )

Though not a sonnet, here's some Tennyson for you ( Read more... )

So I've been studying for a while tonight, and I decided to take a break and actually write something. I tried to write s sonnet. i nailed the 14 lines with 10 syllables each (I followed Shakespeare's rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) but I'm terrible at feeling rhythm enough to know if I managed to get them into iambic pentameter (pentameter yeah, ( Read more... )

Best poem ever:
Matthew Prior, 1718,
A True Maid

"No, no; for my virginity,
When I lose that," says Rose, "I'll die."
"Behind the elms, last night," cried Dick,
"Rose, were you not extremely sick?"

And they say they were all proper back then. lol.

Funny how things seem to repeat themselve; this is a bit from my Rome books about the economy preceding Caesar's rise to power ( Read more... )

Ran across this today, thought I'd post it ( Read more... )

So I should be writing copy for Best Buy at the moment, but it's my lunch break, so fuck it. When the muse strikes, you've got to go with it ( Read more... )

So I thought perhaps that the lakehouse would shake me out of this funk that I've been in. No dice. Work is being impossible, Alex is leaving, I can't write anything worth a damn, and I just can't seem to shake out of this ( Read more... )

So I went down to the lakehouse for the weekend with Adam and his PA friends. I was down last year briefly, but I stayed the whole weekend this time. It was quite an experience ( Read more... )

I dreamed an awful lot last night. And it feels like they were all connected. This is what I remember ( Read more... )