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Welcome to my world. This is what I do with my life when I actually discover I have one. The stuff on this page is all original, though it does not represent the whole spectrum of my work (for one thing, I can't put a novel up here, and only the shortest of short stories will fit). However, I do consider these works to be important parts of my portfolio, so I would like everyone to recognize that they are copyrighted. Please see my rules page for more information if you wish to copy anything from this page.
That said, I hope you enjoy my hobby. Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments you have. Flames are accepted, though I reserve the right to flame right back or ignore you completely ^_^.
Poetry is categorized by topic and ordered by date completed. If a description or explanation of a poem is available, it will be linked from the far right column.
The images at the top of this page were (c)1998 by Bina and are shown with her permission. Don't steal them.
| "Title" | Description and Date |
| "At Any Cost" | rant in progress/ January 2002 |
| "An Ethos in Clover" | rant/ December 2001 |
| "The Bellringer" | ???/ August 2000 |
| "Styx" | short story/ spring 1997 |
| "Migration" | short story/ October 2000 |
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A big hug and thank you to all of the people who have helped edit my work over the years. Also thanks to those who let me edit their creations- having the shoe on the other foot teaches faster than almost anything else ^_^. Finally, thanks to Sempai and Sekka, without whom I would not have had enough competition to keep me going (I will finish your x-mas present before you make your first sale, honest...).
Styles:
Rhymed Quatrains: Stanzas of four lines rhymed either AAAA, ABAB, ABCB, ABCD ABCD, ABBA, ABAA CBCC, or anything else I could think of. Metered, though not always with the same meter for different lines.
Rhymed Couplets: Stanzas of 2-8 lines or no stanzas at all. Rhyming pattern AABBCCDD, of course. Almost always metered.
Rhymed: Some other rhyming pattern not covered above. Usually metered, though it varies.
Sonnet: Shakespearan, Italian, or something random.
Pantoum: A French poem style, like the impossibly difficult Villanelle, but easier. Re-uses lines in a set pattern.
Rhyming, non-lyrical: Some rhyming pattern, but distinctly without structured or lyrical meter.
Lyrical: Less structured. May or may not rhyme- often rhymes in some places but not in others. A strong rhythm, whether structured or not.
Doggerel: Strong, usually iambic, meter. Rhymes. Usually short, with trite rhymes and no high theme. Easy to write, annoying to read.
Lyrical free-verse: Non-rhyming with a regularly-changing meter.
Free-verse: What it says. No distinctive or regular meter, ditto the rhyme. Frighteningly, these are some of my best.
Story-poem: Long. Free-verse without stanzas that usually describes a scene in detail.
Patterned: Contains some sort of pattern, either through repetition, use of a certain word or word-order, a changing number of lines in the stanzas, or whatever.
First-word: A patterned poem where the first word of each line either spells something out, is repeated, or whatever.
Haiku: Japanese poem structure containing two lines of five syllables surrounding one line of seven syllables. Highly metaphorical. I only write these in Japanese- English doesn't work for them any more than Japanese works for sonnets. Translations are included.
Sci-haiku: aka Sci-faiku, the only exception to the previous rule. It is apparently a challenge form for Sci-Fi writers. It is, believe it or not, rather difficult. The same rules as above apply, but it's in English and has to describe something futuristic.
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Last Updated: January 12, 2002
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