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Fear

2008-07-30T14:39:22-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 241, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-30-08, Published: 7-30-08
Status: Complete

And this, this is fear in all its forms, lovingly incised. . .

Small Sacrifices

2008-05-12T11:57:40-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 137, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-12-08, Published: 5-12-08
Status: Complete

I wish you had returned my anger, even in the same crumpled green envelope, even with a 'postage due' stamp you expected me to pay . . .

Six Suites for Cello

2008-04-20T11:02:20-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 209, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-20-08, Published: 4-20-08
Status: Complete

The notes loop around the years, curving awkward arcs into your arms. You forget to notice your tendons scrounging coins in the gutter. . .

Why I Can't Draw Your Eyes

2008-03-04T19:38:24-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 7 Updated: 3-4-08, Published: 3-4-08
Status: Complete

It's the sudden--fleshless-- pucker. . .

Dear Void

2008-02-27T16:59:40-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 184, Reviews: 4 Updated: 2-27-08, Published: 2-27-08
Status: In-Progress

I want to be the black hole, the center of a swirling galaxy of good and evil compressing itself into the impossibly opaque bowl of a girl always asking for more. . ."

Insomnia

2007-04-17T13:27:11-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-17-07, Published: 4-17-07
Status: Complete

A hundred fragments rattle their cage bars, and I can't sleep for the inspiration.

Murder at 3 am

2007-04-16T09:24:14-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-16-07, Published: 4-16-07
Status: Complete

Why don't bodies ever wait 'til morning?

The Mythic Lolita

2007-02-17T15:05:22-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 7 Updated: 2-17-07, Published: 2-17-07
Status: Complete

And she fancies herself a young Lolita, awkward elegant and stepping over her supplicants.

Weightless

2007-02-07T15:29:01-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 72, Reviews: 7 Updated: 2-7-07, Published: 2-7-07
Status: Complete

Let's pretend we don't exist beyond our cellophane tissue and the thrumming of our minds...

Rooftops

2007-01-31T12:52:00-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-31-07, Published: 1-31-07
Status: Complete

When the world stirred the dust of chasms in his chest, he coughed chords to make the landlord cry...

Parallel Conversation

2007-01-19T20:06:59-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 31, Reviews: 7 Updated: 1-19-07, Published: 1-19-07
Status: Complete

Our talks aren't knotted together anymore, but free float in a selfabsorbed bubble.

CityWalking

2007-01-19T20:05:53-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 87, Reviews: 5 Updated: 1-19-07, Published: 1-19-07
Status: Complete

In six nights she was nocturnal, each dawn creasing rougher behind dilated eyes...

Reaching Up And Over

2007-01-17T16:05:36-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 4 Updated: 1-17-07, Published: 1-17-07
Status: Complete

I want a morning, spent in loose change and the pluckedstring closeness of bodies feigning sleep...

The Dangers of Standing Still

2007-01-16T13:55:21-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 117, Reviews: 5 Updated: 1-16-07, Published: 1-16-07
Status: Complete

You knew you'd settle, or claimed you did, but someday arrived ten minutes too early, and now you're caught unawares in a place you know absolutely everything about.

The Pillow Sea

2007-01-07T15:47:19-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/General
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 6 Updated: 1-7-07, Published: 1-7-07
Status: Complete

I asked, once, why she anchored her storms to a fort of child's fantasies. The better to ease my fall from dreams...

A Cold, Cold Night

2007-01-04T18:22:53-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 7 Updated: 1-4-07, Published: 1-4-07
Status: Complete

It's a cold, cold night, without piano notes to warm the air. I wonder, are we still even?

Portents

2007-01-03T15:28:19-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 35, Reviews: 5 Updated: 1-3-07, Published: 1-3-07
Status: Complete

Only the saltine bones of the old can shaman say when rain will come...

The End Result of Love

2007-01-01T10:33:35-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 7 Updated: 1-1-07, Published: 1-1-07
Status: Complete

Photography as a proclamation of love, never given, never taken.

Photoshopping Memories

2006-12-29T16:11:42-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 154, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-29-06, Published: 12-29-06
Status: Complete

So easy to smooth the image's edges, blur the lines until there is just a mass of color, clay for the memory's molding...

The Anniversary of a Death

2006-12-29T16:04:19-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 82, Reviews: 2 Updated: 12-29-06, Published: 12-29-06
Status: Complete

It's been a long time since you've been gone, and for 364 other days I can convince myself the time has lapsed and folded neatly, but there's always that one day when the wound reopens, fresh and salty all at once.

Resolution

2006-12-10T16:02:22-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 173, Reviews: 3 Updated: 12-10-06, Published: 12-10-06
Status: Complete

The city gorges and reflects, until the bulimia of culture spits him out into some unknown country, where the beads and baubles of what he had before are worth less than a cigarette from Al's Superette, guaranteed lowest prices anywhere

Mirage

2006-12-08T15:21:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-8-06, Published: 12-8-06
Status: Complete

I paid my dues to despair in synonyms and slow installments...

Gaelic

2006-10-28T12:13:21-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 7 Updated: 10-28-06, Published: 10-28-06
Status: Complete

And she found herself writing the date in an older language, dulled by the waves of different years and different tongues...

Waxing Night

2006-10-23T15:35:29-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 119, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-23-06, Published: 10-23-06
Status: In-Progress

Lead puddles in arteries and veins, but I'm not tired, you say, I'm not tired

Juicyfruit

2006-10-20T12:58:58-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 112, Reviews: 7 Updated: 10-20-06, Published: 10-20-06
Status: Complete

Your mouth twanged Juicyfruit the way a country boy's banjo sigh still rumbles through city sidewalk cracks.

Your Old Sweatshirt

2006-10-02T15:36:49-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 126, Reviews: 8 Updated: 10-2-06, Published: 10-2-06
Status: Complete

We thought your presence was erased by trashbags and goodwill, but one last breath remained in our home.

Reading Into It

2006-09-30T18:54:00-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 66, Reviews: 7 Updated: 9-30-06, Published: 9-30-06
Status: Complete

It's too early to be thinking in symbols, but there are too many metaphors sinking below consciousness for an easy slip into the morning...

Blackout

2006-09-27T13:31:09-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 6 Updated: 9-27-06, Published: 9-27-06
Status: Complete

Civilization is a word found only in light and surity. The uncertainty of darkness seems to activate the primal mind.

Cheshire Morning

2006-09-27T13:23:54-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-27-06, Published: 9-27-06
Status: Complete

And every time you blink, ten seconds fall like scales from the clock's winding tail rhythm.

Replacement

2006-09-27T13:17:23-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 135, Reviews: 5 Updated: 9-27-06, Published: 9-27-06
Status: Complete

They took the lead out of pencils, replaced it with the graphite of indecision...

Small Town Scourge

2006-09-25T12:50:25-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-25-06, Published: 9-25-06
Status: Complete

He's a big city preacher in a small minded town...free love, baby, free love.

Literal

2006-09-15T14:37:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 6 Updated: 9-15-06, Published: 9-15-06
Status: Complete

I have a thing for you...

Possibilities Revisited

2006-09-15T14:37:15-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 169, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-15-06, Published: 9-15-06
Status: Complete

She's always been a fighter, drenching each moment in strain and peril, until she found herself in a quagmire of lost time, unsure of what happens next.

Soul Carver

2006-09-15T14:34:39-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 146, Reviews: 7 Updated: 9-15-06, Published: 9-15-06
Status: Complete

He's an artist, a carver of souls...

GoldLeaf Decisions

2006-09-15T13:46:03-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 4 Updated: 9-15-06, Published: 9-15-06
Status: Complete

Wrapped so thinly in some whirlwind dictation, I'm still missing you.

Dreamer

2006-09-10T16:06:52-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 3 Updated: 9-10-06, Published: 9-10-06
Status: Complete

I see these flint eyed dreams of excellence arch over physical restraints and break record times, and know this is not my race to run

Shadow of a Doubt

2006-09-02T09:11:14-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Supernatural/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 166, Reviews: 7 Updated: 9-2-06, Published: 9-2-06
Status: Complete

...there is a shadow of a doubt./ His name is Robert, and he lounges in her bedroom's corner,/ just behind sure sight.

No Address, No Taxes

2006-09-01T09:43:33-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 110, Reviews: 8 Updated: 9-1-06, Published: 9-1-06
Status: Complete

Not made in anyone's image, no no/She's her own product, whipped up in a moment/from the steam of righteous fervor...

Radio Muse

2006-08-30T16:24:00-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 119, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-30-06, Published: 8-30-06
Status: Complete

Ah, the blinding sameness winds a boa of sweaty bodies and jumbled lyrics around your shoulders. The fashion accessory of the century.

Wisteria

2006-08-24T17:52:04-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-24-06, Published: 8-24-06
Status: Complete

You mentioned purple, once, said it was a travesty of grandeur and over-painted whores, but beautiful all the same...

Never Good Enough

2006-08-22T14:18:11-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 133, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-22-06, Published: 8-22-06
Status: Complete

Jealousy simmers on the stove of my mind. Such a childish compulsion, but it's there, and calling me.

Oxygen

2006-08-21T16:10:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-21-06, Published: 8-21-06
Status: Complete

Breathing is underrated.

Garden of Deceit

2006-08-19T08:07:45-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-19-06, Published: 8-19-06
Status: Complete

On late nights when I can't sleep for guilt, I still imagine that you're here...

Why the Ozone is a Lie

2006-08-13T15:14:32-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Humor
Chapters: 1, Words: 140, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-13-06, Published: 8-13-06
Status: Complete

Because August isn't fifty degree weather, my sweaters shrink from the arching sun. And I think

Blasphemous Blustering

2006-08-12T18:55:26-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 219, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-12-06, Published: 8-12-06
Status: Complete

I'm very sorry, Jesus...

The Monsters Under the Bed

2006-08-12T17:54:44-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Fantasy
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Humor/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 855, Reviews: 2 Updated: 8-12-06, Published: 8-12-06
Status: Complete

Psh, those were tales for children...we're real, and we've found e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

I Always Loved Your Metaphors

2006-08-12T09:37:46-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Spiritual
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,037, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-12-06, Published: 8-12-06
Status: Complete

You pulled the Benz over to the road's slumping shoulder, jumping out with both feet...I sighed and stayed where I was, not really surprised. You were always searching for something new or different...

Binder Poetry

2006-08-11T17:23:57-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 188, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-11-06, Published: 8-11-06
Status: Complete

I built a wall of grounded writings, of things this earth could offer me and never think a thought. But you came on pinpricked wings...

Loss

2006-08-10T16:44:09-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 172, Reviews: 7 Updated: 8-10-06, Published: 8-10-06
Status: Complete

The tragedy of losing what you never had, but ought to...

You May Call it Pride, But

2006-08-09T15:35:24-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 143, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-9-06, Published: 8-9-06
Status: Complete

Those who speak of nature's bounty are not drinking from the same glass as I. Revel in manmade glamour, then rise above and fool them all...

Solitary Classical

2006-08-08T14:13:16-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-8-06, Published: 8-8-06
Status: Complete

The voiceless power of classical music is the perfect backdrop for denial...

She Made Her Own Way

2006-08-07T16:17:57-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-7-06, Published: 8-7-06
Status: Complete

The rough blue of this suitcase matched the blue of her eyes, but they are both faded, as are their tales. Who could ever love this splintered emptiness?

Nebulaphobia

2006-08-06T11:03:26-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 126, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-6-06, Published: 8-6-06
Status: Complete

The fear of fog. . .

Glossophobia The Fear of Peforming

2006-08-05T09:23:16-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 4 Updated: 8-5-06, Published: 8-5-06
Status: Complete

The fear of performing was running naked and nameless through the forests of your mind until you sequestered it in definition...

A Mutual Disintegration

2006-08-04T13:48:36-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 157, Reviews: 5 Updated: 8-4-06, Published: 8-4-06
Status: Complete

Your hopes must have fallen into my coffee, for they are stained brown and dripping with sugared disdain.

So Lovely

2006-08-01T07:33:54-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 122, Reviews: 8 Updated: 8-1-06, Published: 8-1-06
Status: Complete

She's weaving iridescent falsities around the question that has felled nations.

Have You Forgotten?

2006-07-30T05:03:08-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 104, Reviews: 7 Updated: 7-30-06, Published: 7-30-06
Status: Complete

You stepped off the plane last night, burning with a weathered light, revealing the shadows in my worldly facade.

Reminders

2006-07-28T09:53:29-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-28-06, Published: 7-28-06
Status: Complete

These boxes are sequestered, the better to jumble their speech of change. They whisper of a better chance, and the restless yearn awakens.

Waking Too Early

2006-07-25T07:08:15-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-25-06, Published: 7-25-06
Status: Complete

The silence I was used to has grown dim in nature's early morning rush, and you are not here to quell the tide of sound.

Pretend

2006-07-23T13:44:57-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 103, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-23-06, Published: 7-23-06
Status: Complete

Where have these fantasies of open waters gone? The romanticism of stormy seas is lost when the waters cease to churn.

Going Home

2006-07-18T13:21:55-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 7 Updated: 7-18-06, Published: 7-18-06
Status: Complete

Your words are glass breaking on my ears, and I long for the silence of home...

Modern Ballad

2006-07-17T13:32:10-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 109, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-17-06, Published: 7-17-06
Status: Complete

You're nothing like what I've been promised...

Overcast

2006-07-15T15:45:52-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 149, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-15-06, Published: 7-15-06
Status: Complete

The sky is a dull gray, and all that's left are the memories...

Musical Dystrophy

2006-07-14T14:05:23-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 163, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-14-06, Published: 7-14-06
Status: Complete

She was such a joyful child, but acquiescence has warped her melody...

Midsummer Missings

2006-07-12T18:24:43-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 264, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-12-06, Published: 7-12-06
Status: Complete

I haven't seen you in much too long, but the feelings refuse to fade into a pleasant, platonic memory...

Tester

2006-07-12T16:37:09-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 126, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-12-06, Published: 7-12-06
Status: Complete

Vials of perfume speak for the ages, history swelling in their superficial shells...

Everlast

2006-07-11T09:34:43-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 167, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-11-06, Published: 7-11-06
Status: Complete

Each night spent here is a stepping stone, whether they lead down or up I cannot tell...

UrbanLust

2006-07-10T16:55:24-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 247, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-10-06, Published: 7-10-06
Status: Complete

There was inspiration in the city, under blinding lights of reality. But here, in this secluded clearing, I feel desolate and dreamless.

Intercontinental Love

2006-07-09T15:34:52-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 245, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-9-06, Published: 7-9-06
Status: Complete

My friend in Pennsylvania has "fallen in love" with her penpal from Australia. You tell me.

The Disease that is Forgotten

2006-07-07T15:48:21-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 174, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-7-06, Published: 7-7-06
Status: Complete

Each memory is precious, though not until it has faded into fog...

Flight

2006-07-06T07:40:35-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 89, Reviews: 5 Updated: 7-6-06, Published: 7-6-06
Status: Complete

The bones reveal the flaws, but still they push through candied apple skin...

Fray

2006-07-06T07:29:34-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-6-06, Published: 7-6-06
Status: Complete

A whirlwind of noise surrounds them both, in an embryo of chaos

Girl

2006-06-28T11:17:08-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 156, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-28-06, Published: 6-28-06
Status: Complete

Her innocence calls to me, a single note from far in the distance...

Hashbrowns with Your Daily Death & Destruction?

2006-06-24T13:52:57-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 205, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-24-06, Published: 6-24-06
Status: Complete

Ah, the morning news. Such a lovely way to begin the day- I personally love eating my bacon to the soundtrack of merciless murders and rape. r&r

Passage

2006-06-21T19:01:46-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 74, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-21-06, Published: 6-21-06
Status: Complete

And the pages themselves seem burdened by time...

A Higher Plane

2006-06-18T07:02:47-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 147, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-18-06, Published: 6-18-06
Status: Complete

High-strung boys are an addiction of yours...

The Art of Forgetting

2006-06-16T19:03:44-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 145, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-16-06, Published: 6-16-06
Status: Complete

In shedding pieces of your memories, you relinquish particles of your soul...

The Sea Was His Religion

2006-06-16T10:12:39-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Fable
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,354, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-16-06, Published: 6-16-06
Status: Complete

The sea was his true love, and what a fickle lover she is [one shot]...

I Have Yet to Find the Swan

2006-06-15T17:50:47-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 223, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-15-06, Published: 6-15-06
Status: Complete

Summer is intended to be a season of tawny brilliance and tawdry tales...

Chorophobia

2006-06-14T18:50:25-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 182, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-14-06, Published: 6-14-06
Status: Complete

A fear of dancing...

Paragon of Permutation

2006-06-13T18:43:14-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 216, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-13-06, Published: 6-13-06
Status: Complete

She is a lightning rod for change...

Anablephobia

2006-06-12T18:56:48-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 171, Reviews: 6 Updated: 6-12-06, Published: 6-12-06
Status: Complete

The fear of looking up...

18 Grams

2006-06-11T15:52:34-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 206, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-11-06, Published: 6-11-06
Status: Complete

Is man solely comprised of gears and pulleys, or is there something more?

Morning After

2006-06-11T08:14:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 137, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-11-06, Published: 6-11-06
Status: Complete

Sometimes she wonders if love's really what she's looking for...

Compassionate Censorship

2006-06-10T18:26:14-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 188, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-10-06, Published: 6-10-06
Status: Complete

What is more important: being honest, or being kind?

Twilit Sands

2006-06-10T07:28:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 120, Reviews: 7 Updated: 6-10-06, Published: 6-10-06
Status: Complete

"A fuchsia beach/ swimming in twilit stars/ curving under bedrock/ older than God..."

DreamSpeak

2006-06-09T17:58:14-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 75, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-9-06, Published: 6-9-06
Status: Complete

She's standing in a doorway, surveying the chaos she has created...

First Date

2006-06-08T15:45:01-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-8-06, Published: 6-8-06
Status: Complete

Don't you hate being early for first dates? All sorts of terribly weird things run through your head...

Tiresome Delicacies

2006-06-07T15:55:50-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 215, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-7-06, Published: 6-7-06
Status: Complete

How many people do you see every day, but never deign to converse with? Why must they remain strangers, blurs on the sharp landscape of our perspective...

Clarity

2006-06-05T17:09:39-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Family
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 235, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-5-06, Published: 6-5-06
Status: Complete

Written after I studied an ode praising a girl's father, and I realized what I must be missing.

I Must Have Missed It

2006-06-04T07:08:35-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 125, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-4-06, Published: 6-4-06
Status: Complete

I must have missed the part where 16 = adult...

Corporate Deception

2006-05-31T14:23:40-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-31-06, Published: 5-31-06
Status: Complete

Going through a rebellious phase, aren't I? It's about the mindlessness of desk work, and how it can warp your mind to a jelloid mass. Cheerful, I know.

Subjective Remembrance

2006-05-30T16:02:16-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-30-06, Published: 5-30-06
Status: Complete

Found a photo of my ex sitting in a long-forgotten box...I hope it sounds deeper than that...

Calendar Time

2006-05-20T15:16:11-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 227, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-20-06, Published: 5-20-06
Status: Complete

We allow our lives to be corralled into cubicles the size of postage stamps, emblazoned with a 1/365 chance that it will be today...

Affinity

2006-05-19T15:00:20-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 191, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-19-06, Published: 5-19-06
Status: Complete

Ever had a relationship so disappointing you just wish you could find the rewind button? Me too.

Freshly Laundered WouldHaveBeens

2006-05-18T18:33:07-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 242, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-18-06, Published: 5-18-06
Status: Complete

It was so promising, but it was broken in the midst of laundered shirts and dry-cleaned ties.

And He Bottled Up His Fears

2006-05-18T14:15:00-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 796, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-18-06, Published: 5-18-06
Status: Complete

Gives a new meaning to the cliche "bottling up your feelings" [one-shot]

End Scene I

2006-05-16T18:22:46-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 153, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-16-06, Published: 5-16-06
Status: Complete

About the ending of the first stage of a relationship, and how both people are either idolized or debased at its conclusion. Not sure I like this one...

Pixie, oh Pixie

2006-05-16T12:35:41-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy
Chapters: 1, Words: 363, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-16-06, Published: 5-16-06
Status: Complete

Written for a friend, who walks the same block every day, just to get out of her crazy house for a few minutes.

Facades

2006-05-11T17:25:34-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: General/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 94, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-11-06, Published: 5-11-06
Status: Complete

A 3 second exchange sparks a thousand questions in her mind, and none in his.

Watercolor Time

2006-05-10T18:33:34-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 150, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-10-06, Published: 5-10-06
Status: Complete

Proof that time can always be made, if only something is important enough.

Locked Away in a Jewelry Box

2006-05-09T17:01:28-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 97, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-9-06, Published: 5-9-06
Status: Complete

Written after my teacher was describing the Saint Chapel in Paris to my class, and said "it's like being in a giant jewelry box"...

Early Mornings 4:17 AM

2006-05-06T13:47:09-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 7 Updated: 5-6-06, Published: 5-6-06
Status: Complete

Begun at 4:17 this morning, when I just couldn't bring myself to work on my paper. Because...early mornings weren't made for that.

Why So Lovely, Starchild?

2006-05-01T13:40:02-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 68, Reviews: 6 Updated: 5-1-06, Published: 5-1-06
Status: Complete

She wants nothing more than willowbranch fingers and moonlight hair...

In A Bottle

2006-04-30T08:15:20-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Poetry/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 151, Reviews: 2 Updated: 4-30-06, Published: 4-30-06
Status: Complete

He can't keep his own secrets, so he rolls them into glass bottles, where all the world can see...

Blindness Forbids Perfection

2006-04-29T06:45:33-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 191, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-29-06, Published: 4-29-06
Status: Complete

Written about a friend of mine, who has definite committment issues. She just can't seem to allow herself to love anyone anymore...

Twisted Taboo Ribbons

2006-04-25T13:36:00-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 177, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-25-06, Published: 4-25-06
Status: Complete

Written after a friend of mine spent all day attempting to catch the server guy's eye, but he was determinedly looking away and blushing. I don't know where this spun off into, the stratosphere of the insane, I suppose. xD

Eyelashes

2006-04-19T14:20:11-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: General/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 86, Reviews: 7 Updated: 4-19-06, Published: 4-19-06
Status: Complete

Reflections on eyelashes.

The Crash

2006-04-16T16:11:15-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 118, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-16-06, Published: 4-16-06
Status: Complete

Inspired by a car crash I saw on my way home, in which the two cars had wrecked so completely they seemed like one car, which was actually pretty cool.

Desirous Revenge

2006-04-11T17:15:42-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 148, Reviews: 8 Updated: 4-11-06, Published: 4-11-06
Status: Complete

To all those who think they have me trapped in their world of conformity...heh.

Father Figure

2006-04-11T13:48:17-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-11-06, Published: 4-11-06
Status: Complete

Rather short for me...Everyone has someone they think of when they can't sleep, someone they want to hold them, or just to be near them. I know I do. Hint: it's not my father.

Recite Your Lines

2006-04-07T16:13:20-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 449, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-7-06, Published: 4-7-06
Status: Complete

A poem written after I had to perform Romeo & Juliet..."recite your lines/with a heart that is a thousand waves/breaking on your chest/shaking hands clasped behind you/in inverse prayer/a sacrament to what Should. Not. Be..." R&R :)

The Prophet On The Corner

2006-04-03T16:16:22-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 208, Reviews: 1 Updated: 4-3-06, Published: 4-3-06
Status: Complete

"Ask the prophet on the corner/entombed in filthy blankets/and whiskey jugs broken for the last drop/what you'll mean when you're gone/he'll solemnly slur,/'nothing, sir'..."

Drink

2006-03-29T15:36:28-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 1 Updated: 3-29-06, Published: 3-29-06
Status: Complete

A toast to a girl who's in love with a man 30 years her senior and engaged to a social climber...slightly autobiographical..xD "how you start off/is how you end up/so She better start drinking/toasting to twenty-one shots/of having the wrong Him every ti

Alone AgainLike You've Always Been

2006-03-28T17:36:39-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 238, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-28-06, Published: 3-28-06
Status: Complete

About a girl I know who was abused, and the guy used as his defense 'I was afraid she wouldn't love me anymore'...uh...hello? R&R! love

A Grown Up Game Of Make Believe

2006-03-27T15:31:09-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: M
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 159, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-27-06, Published: 3-27-06
Status: Complete

It's easier to handle if you pretend it's him..."when the rivulets of watery shards/settle in every imperfection/on her chapped soul armour/ she imagines it's him/ running illicit fingers too fast to stop/down her body's bruised essence/impossible to hold

Discord

2006-03-25T08:44:25-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Drama/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 279, Reviews: 3 Updated: 3-25-06, Published: 3-25-06
Status: Complete

Written with Aphrodite's 'golden apple of discord' in mind, the last few stanzas show that well enough..."Stretched to the dreams of infinity/I'll suspend my motions/for the moment of eternity..."

The Purer Form

2006-03-23T18:00:03-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Parody/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 225, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-23-06, Published: 3-23-06
Status: Complete

I actually like this! It deals with how twisted religion can be..."Sweet mary/is the exhalation/begs for truth from the dead/the earless cannot hear his sins/he prayed for truth/once..."

The Art Of Decadence

2006-03-22T16:45:32-08:00

Author: emeraude-irlandais
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Tragedy/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 297, Reviews: 4 Updated: 3-22-06, Published: 3-22-06
Status: Complete

Written after I discovered that "decadence" means "falling down"...and so many people use it to describe something good! Well, hah, I've outwitted them, now haven't I? As usual, contains melancholy at unhealthy levels. Read at your own peril. R&R