List: Gold Shiny Things

Contests where I was favoured with a Gold Shiny!

• open-chested, she waits

  syllables
  mark papyrus ribs

  18 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 4 5:49 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• possibility

  young hands know,
  

  22 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 29 4:16 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• promises of land

  her flesh was an ocean - open and red -
  on the night she played Moses

  47 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 7 11:25 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Transgender
• with the wind at high tide

  comes the tower.
  

  33 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 6 12:53 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• the Astrology of ancient texts and modern minds

  39 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 18 5:38 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• and sunlight ignores our demands

  54 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 18 3:00 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• stark

  36 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 13 7:08 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• barefooted

  51 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 13 11:43 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• sedimental

  50 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 12 10:44 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• small death

  17 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 7 11:05 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Depression, Haiku
• weighed within the sea

  51 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 7 10:39 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Depression
• with poise to rest in blue

  44 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 5 12:38 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• the shape of rain

  some days she tastes of lime-

  50 lines, 8 comments, on May 31 12:02 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• sensate

  41 lines, 3 comments, on May 31 5:49 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• bloom

  74 lines, 6 comments, on May 26 1:50 PM 2008. In Contemporary, Transgender
• top-heavy fashion statement

  her aubergine voice
  hooked silence to the glass,

  24 lines, 7 comments, on May 22 2:58 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• touched purple

  48 lines, 16 comments, on May 22 7:02 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Spiritual
• some hope burns to touch

  she studied denial from within

  56 lines, 8 comments, on May 18 9:03 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• Name yourself human, willing to share your tears.

  Victim: there is no word more vile, in any culture or language, in any corner of human enterprise. Yet the news reports tragedy w

  25 lines, 15 comments, on May 9 6:07 AM 2008. In Contemporary, Prose
• every statue carves itself a pedestal

  29 lines, 1 comment, on May 8 1:49 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• the texture of intuition

  45 lines, 7 comments, on May 7 7:59 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• a thousand shades of black

  40 lines, 5 comments, on May 3 6:53 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• namita

  the wind settles seeds into quiet hair,

  28 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 31 8:18 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• high tide

  southern harmonics never die-

  34 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 31 7:41 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• Living

  A spiral holds all between

  46 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 28 10:44 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• otherness

  a perfect shout settles

  52 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 7 3:35 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• image: crucify the wind

  51 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 16 10:58 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• image: burnt offerings and superstition

  24 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 5 2:50 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• childhood, age 7

  21 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 25 9:02 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• Dark Water Iceberg

  Even a salubrious hour
  of solitude is frightening

  53 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 21 12:41 PM 2008
• these nipples would salute if they had hands

  50 lines, 18 comments, on Jan 16 9:09 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• Cold Crescent

  22 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 11 12:12 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• Half-lit by Morning

  43 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 10 1:21 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• a lie before breakfast

  20 lines, 12 comments, on Dec 23 11:55 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• A snow angel inverts

  as thawed flesh stands.
  A glance back to cookie-cutter

  16 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 19 12:03 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• Will I Smell Her Memory, Fifty Years From Now?

  33 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 12 9:06 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Love, Loss
• Bile on your Shoes

  Bright shadows take turns to stagger across this room,

  28 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 11 2:24 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• eternal garden

  22 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 3 8:01 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Father
• sodden

  all the earth is saffron
  to her lips,

  25 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 1 9:49 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Tsunami
• circles of tree

  Circles of henna,
  like wisdom

  25 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 30 9:25 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• a beach can be black without night

  Ears seek song to curl around, to offer buried warmth.

  36 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 21 9:17 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• bluebell

  have you heard
  her soil

  41 lines, 17 comments, on Nov 17 1:39 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Love
• planning my abduction

  in the future,
  I'm an alien time-traveller.

  57 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 10 11:18 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Spiritual, Life
• she leaves marks

  33 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 6 11:46 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• nomadic

  it happens
  as dreams and distractions

  37 lines, 11 comments, on Nov 3 3:16 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• coffee for two

  39 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 1 7:35 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• heart-shaped womb

  a womb gives warmth

  22 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 31 6:08 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• this noise has legs

  words swallowed whole-

  14 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 30 12:39 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• newborn learns to breathe

  97 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 27 8:14 PM 2007
• every shaman needs ritual

  37 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 26 1:48 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Adult
• edificial

  45 lines, 18 comments, on Oct 25 7:56 AM 2007. In Adult, Addiction, Guilt
• she falls back

  to age nine: memory folds

  44 lines, 17 comments, on Oct 20 12:52 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Transgender
• these words will fit when they can

  some words
  sit o

  21 lines, 17 comments, on Oct 19 11:29 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• water people

  we are pieces
  of sky,

  24 lines, 20 comments, on Oct 19 3:09 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Spiritual
• of square pegs and round holes

  this coin
  of bone & wire

  18 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 16 7:54 AM 2007. In Contemporary
• a poet in love tries to write of something else

  Winds spin
  around a grain

  43 lines, 18 comments, on Oct 15 7:15 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Personal
• letters

  He could not catch the plane that night-

  45 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 13 12:40 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Society, War
• Faith Fills Us Until Empty

  30 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 13 7:00 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Life, Spiritual
• when sunlight fell dark beween East and West

  15 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 12 7:09 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Society
• here runs the voice of silence

  here falls the voice that walks each quiet earth

  9 lines, 25 comments, on Oct 7 5:08 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Society
• flotsam converses with the Sea

  With a face full of sky and water,
  a moon with reflected twin beyond

  51 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 3 1:12 AM 2007. In Society, Spiritual, Contemporary, Life
• tide

  crawl inside this bruise -
  swim its shore

  25 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 20 11:10 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Spiritual, Life, Love, Loneliness
• black sky

  our balcony scene lacked
  Shakespeare's touch for romance,

  47 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 20 6:09 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Pain, Love
• blinded by stone

  there's this statue some call blind - stone t

  32 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 19 10:45 AM 2007. In Society, Contemporary
• leaf-blown life

  feet whipped from vertical, falling

  26 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 16 8:54 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Society, Spiritual, Life
• heavy

  37 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 15 3:20 PM 2007. In Sad, Pain, Dark, Contemporary
• barren by cannibal

  110 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 6 5:51 AM 2007. In Adult (concepts), Society, Feminism, Double-standards
• butterfly totem

  carry my murmuring pause
  tucked into your wind,

  38 lines, 27 comments, on Sep 5 1:40 PM 2007. In Life, Hope, Struggle, Spiritual, Transgender
• launching kites

  blue belly hungers -
  draws herself wayward

  40 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 4 6:08 AM 2007
• white noise unforgotten

  93 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 3 4:19 AM 2007. In Life, Thoughts, Adult, Dark, Spiritual
• cat caught in dog

  37 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 2 3:06 AM 2007. In Adult, Thoughts, Life, Transgender, Confusion
• limbs

  anger is all - between crashing of wave

  44 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 26 11:25 AM 2007. In Life, Thoughts, Spiritual, Anger, Movement, Entropy
• ouside of cardboard

  114 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 25 3:55 PM 2007. In Adult, Angst, Pain, Depression
• cradle song

  two leather pages - sun-roughened

  17 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 23 11:27 AM 2007
• apolitically incorrect

  333 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 20 6:02 PM 2007. In Adult, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• unexpected lunch date

  cold pause - bed covered lacy, an unpacked scattering of

  28 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 19 10:35 AM 2007. In Personal, Life, Guilt, Denial, Transgender
• digital

  17 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 19 7:44 AM 2007. In Adult, Society, Spiritual, Loneliness, Empathy, Identity
• Paris-ites & Wicked

  73 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 17 7:30 PM 2007. In Adult, Humor, Dark, Society, Feminist Rage
• scrounging

  77 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 17 5:58 PM 2007. In Adult, Dark, Humor, Society, War
• this edge called home

  home is that edge
  where nothing of art mistakes

  42 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 17 1:18 PM 2007. In Life, Spiritual, Masks, Sad
• white envy

  16 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 14 10:27 AM 2007. In Adult, Humor, Society, Lesbian, Marriage, Feminist
• cursed within layers

  88 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 12 10:22 AM 2007. In Adult (concepts), Society, Feminist, Gender
• wordless faith

  45 lines, 15 comments, on Aug 7 2:41 PM 2007. In Abuse, Adult, Society, Spiritual, Thoughts
• dutch ceramic

  her leaking lips ablate -
  a blur of why spills hollow;

  50 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 6 10:38 AM 2007. In Personal, Spiritual, Confusion, Hope, Transgender
• of deconstructed men

  93 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 3 10:05 AM 2007. In Dark, Humor, Feminism, Sarcasm, Irony, Adult (concepts)
• thumper sounds like trumpet

  Words often zing from mouth or south

  8 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 31 11:43 PM 2007. In Humour, Light, Nonsense, Weird
• her well worn rung

  this wood is older than her frame - / she once chased shafts of sunlight / scattered on a breeze, / &nbs

  1 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 30 3:29 PM 2007. In Society, Life, Feminism
• this air they share

  I fell between them willingly / at last, / my arsenal / a vast array of scents / & flakes of lipstick

  35 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 28 4:19 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Love, Sensual
• each of us [ pebbles ]

  I. / throw a pebble lightly at a pond - / watch it sink for stones don't swim / &

  32 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 27 5:18 PM 2007. In Society, Spiritual, Life
• hard

  black light hovers / - begging at her silhouettes' edge / &nbs

  31 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 20 12:09 PM 2007. In Society, Life, Dark, Compassion
• of umbral uncertainty

  I. / she is umbral - / stealing through landscapes / once luminous, left /

  60 lines, 6 comments, on May 20 6:45 AM 2007. In Personal, Hope, Sad, Spiritual, Transition
• paper lanterns and unlit origami

  / never content with ordinary lies / she falls into short exhalations / &nb

  23 lines, 12 comments, on May 1 4:52 AM 2007. In Life, Dark, Thoughts, Sad, Pain, Confusion
• a flutter falling in the skin between thighs

  23 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 21 7:22 AM 2007. In Erotica, Lesbian, Love, Lust, Spiritual
• down below the bud and bloom

  lost in green,
  down below the bud and bloom

  51 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 15 12:26 PM 2007
• between the dimples and the green

  33 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 14 10:47 AM 2007. In Nature, Spiritual, Love, Spring
• breathe my chill

   
  You breathe my chill

  15 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 14 4:29 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Spiritual
• the brief history of her sexual ambiguity's demise

  75 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 29 5:23 PM 2007. In Adult, Society, Life, Trasgender, Transition
• Boy or Girl?

  14 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 20 3:20 AM 2007. In Society, Life, Transgenderism
• fade and i will catch you

  24 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 17 6:06 PM 2007
• Postage Paid

  she went -
  slipping into unfolded memories;

  49 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 15 5:12 PM 2007. In Life; Loss; Longing; Love
• Bye

  you -
  vanished faster than

  30 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 13 4:44 PM 2007. In Dark, Humor, Love, Anger, Bitter
• Cremated Alive [For the Sins of Others]

  history:
       claustrophobic fate reads right-to-left

  38 lines, on Mar 13 9:12 AM 2007. In Dark, Society, Sad, Life, Weird
• Have Rhythm!

  46 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 7 5:10 AM 2007. In Society, Adult, Femininity, Repression, Life, Spiritual
• Lemon

  Lip quivers -
  anticipations' sweat

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 6 4:54 AM 2007
• Trust the Wind

  empathic maxims navigate -
  the new-age décor

  47 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 3 4:04 AM 2007. In Life, Spiritual, Message to Control Freaks
• Stay? Go? [grazing our Hearts' wonder]

   
  sepia moments define us all

  31 lines, on Feb 24 5:07 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Society, Feminism
• Of Superficial Lies [and Sin]

  A symmetry of light so bound
  beneath the skin

  10 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 22 7:56 AM 2007. In Society, Spiritual, Life, Acceptance, Diversity
• Sweat [In your Regard]

  10 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 17 12:13 PM 2007. In Erotic, Love, Spiritual
• Plaster Cracks and Memory [The Empty Room]

  Memory inhabits
  the plaster cracks that scrawl

  27 lines, 13 comments, on Feb 17 8:45 AM 2007. In Love, Sad, Life, Memory
• Autistic Isolation [tongues, as sonar]

  Forcing us to idle in communion -
  
  thoughts stuttering from tongues, as sonar

  25 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 10 2:12 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Weird, Society, Personal
• Autumn Caught (In Amber)

  (To hear her sound) just still your breath,
  (Then feel around) that little death.

  31 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 2 3:08 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Nature, Hope
• Rise High

  Expand again and ride the comet`s tail,
  past neptunes` wake and out into the black,

  46 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 4 11:09 AM 2006. In Society, Nature, Hope
• Forest (Mother) and Child

  An ancient truth (of dark and old),
  Of shallow youth (now run to cold),

  31 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 23 1:13 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Nature, Love
• The Race

  I'd cast myself off with a heave and a grind,
  But halfway down my calm would unwind,

  41 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 12 10:58 AM 2006. In Personal, Humor
• Frankenstein Loving

  I would hand you my flesh,
  to then wrap as your own,

  33 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 2 10:51 PM 2006. In Weird, Love, Humor
• cacophonous, tiger lilly greets the tide

  language falls
  sideways,

  43 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 28 12:50 PM 2008. In Contemporary
• my sky is a metaphor

  there is an empty edge
  we can never find

  57 lines, 11 comments, on Dec 31 11:07 AM 2008. In Contemporary
• in sleep she keeps her dreams alive

  her angels
  are kept to a distance

  34 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 1 12:20 AM. In Contemporary
• hollow salt between the lines

  Lines: 12
  Edits: 3

  29 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 21 10:44 AM. In Contemporary
• white picket elegy in Jasmine

  she is a memory house
  

  62 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 28 4:19 AM. In Contemporary
• burial

  Father's stone,
  sun-wept into blue,

  20 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 30 5:18 AM. In Contemporary
• why

  27 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 13 11:14 AM. In Contemporary, Adult, Rape
• raw fish for breakfast

  it is pink but raw,
  the metal inside

  27 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 15 5:21 AM. In Contemporary, Transgender
• dead flowers weigh too much

  she digs for words
  that are weightless enough

  32 lines, 12 comments, on Apr 15 3:34 PM. In Contemporary, Angst
• silent love poem to self

  even without a name
  I knew you.

  38 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 24 12:52 PM. In Contemporary
• firefly against a wishful sky

  she envied the stars their distance,
  each hand fumbling to tear them down-

  27 lines, 14 comments, on Jul 2 2:23 PM. In Contemporary

• By me, right now

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