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private void ourLove(Heart myOwn){
     Count your positives
     after bickering and banter -
     import the years; Turn off
     the lights, make new numbers -
     but change your syntax?
     Never;

     //0110010001101111

     String data together, eyes
     shivering in binary code -
     integers for pupils;
     I trace a line, a zero sum
     across your pelvic ridge;
     inflame the numerals, sear the skin -

     switch the zero out for one;

     //011110010110111101110101

     I mark the change;
     lower my head, send a request -
     meeting lips with bracket bones,
     shields of the heart;
     a rush of sparks burst into flame;

     //0110110001101private void ourLove(Heart myOwn) by *Lychalis

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a letter.Dear good sir, or dear madam,
(Whichever be your gender)
you are so blessed that I’ve addressed
your person in this letter.
I write to you, to tell of
how I am your greatest choice;
to join for tea, Carol Ann Duffy:
Poet laureate, glorious.
I suppose I could just say:
“Pick me because I’m awesome!”
Yet then, perhaps, would I see that
I wrote too short a poem?
Where’s the fun in something short?
For this fine purpose, at least –
you’d learn much less, but I digress -
I’ll return on-course with speed.
So why, you wonder, pick me?
I shall simply tell you how
writing’s my love, my hand in glove -
and ever has it been so.
For since I was young and small,
I tell you, sir or madam,
I read the days and nights away –
read as much as I could stand!
Time passed; I began wishing
to create magic with words.
At age thirteen, It came to be -
to love poetry, I learned.
I commenced fitting the words
together, finding their place.
I wasn’a letter. by *Lychalis

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lunchtime nostalgia.No-one eats outside in winter
except school-children barred
from warm halls over lunch,
and far away sit shivering on benches
nibbling bread, meat and chocolates, sweets.

Years apart, a hotel skirts
the hallway, with a cafe
in a ghost-town car-park. Through
the window sit familiar tables -
one lonely parasol spins in the wind.

The canopy flies in halting circles,
her companions sleeping, wings drawn close
like birds. Litter drifting across asphalt,
past resting sunshades, for summer waiting;
a sleepless dancer spirals in the sun.lunchtime nostalgia. by *Lychalis

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gift: air held her breath. Air dared not breathe
for fear of suction
drawing her into her own lungs,
trapped and forgotten - a villi incarcerate
far beneath the luminous
dragonfly at rest;
perched upon the shadows
of her quicksilver chest.

She never spoke,
torn from the comfort of trees -
never let her voice ring
across the hillsides;
stranger returning.

Through the forests she whispers still,
chattering through branches, hissing
through leaves. Into your dreams
she crawls, and there she
calls
and she screams.

She glows at night.
Faint, golden blow-kisses -
her wispy currents, streaming hair.
The moonlight man
reaches through
her filigree form -
she curls, swervgift: air held her breath. by *Lychalis

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red belt manoeuvres.Thrice strike, thrice strike,
the clock face cuts itself in half.
Circle the mat:
easy pace, now turn back;
backwards, warm cold air
(rushes through the ear).
Strafe left, strafe right.
Push up, proper, arms shudder -
sit back, push up off your spine.

Smooth, fluid:
make a ball,
learn to fall without harm -
dojo is a spinning blur.
Recover (the room a drunken see-saw),
repeat (oh bugger).

My tendons flatten under
slender fingers. Achieve liberty
six times, six ways
to snatch a higher hand -
you have six weeks
of purity.

Slice your hand-knife skywards,
shoulders swinging downwards -
spinning eyes, buckled spine,
staring at the floor.

Take red belt manoeuvres. by *Lychalis

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timekeeper.My skin is see-through,
exposed to eyes
before and behind
that stare at my naked tendons.

My bones glint
with the colour and sheen of brass,
the commoner's gold;
my skeleton is on display,
imprisoned beneath fake glass.

When I was born,
deep valleys were carved in my
gunmetal shell, notching forests
of leaves and grass-governed fields
in spirals - lacing ribs
with twitching wheels, cut from steel.

Lines were tattooed upon my face
or sliced with needles -
I never could tell between red ink
or blood, as it bubbled up
through cream,

but then my fluttering quartz heart
was often still, no typewriter clicks
nor hummingbird wings for a pulse.

timekeeper. by *Lychalis

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ScornHer restless heart cries, Love! I am here to be found,
Everywhere - here - following voices of all in Greece,
Yet from her mouth, there is no sound.

A fair nymph's merry voice once rung from sky to ground,
Until the cerulean-eyed Queen gave it cruel release –
Her restless heart cries, Love! I am here to be found.

And vainly she, swift of wind, silent of voice, follows round
Her beloved, who scorns her with lips of cerise –
Yet from her mouth there is no sound.

The wind carries her silent lament, for he himself is bound
To one who wears his scornful azure eyes and vain fleece;
Her restless heart cries, Love! I am

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Anthropomorphism for BeginnersI found Grandma on the street today
reborn as a rock.

I didn't recognize her at first
without her turquoise-rim glasses
or her always-falling-out-in-public teeth;
she was standing in the gutter on her bald,
lopsided head.

Mom tells me Grandma's gone to nag God into slaughtering spiders
and taking the farts out of vegetables,
but if you squint your eyes and tilt your head,
you can see Grandma's crooked nose--
the one that she broke
playing badminton last year--
and the way her eyes crinkle at the corners
when she talks about cheating
to beat me at checkers.

And it's just like Grandma to come back as a rock;
Mom's always called her a stubb

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So, I have finally decided to start doing commissions. I need a way to get some money together, anyway. For now, I'm just doing general prose and poetry. Prices are as follows:

Prose

Short Stories - £2 (Anything under 1000 words, and for every 1000 words)

: Chaptered Stories - £3 per chapter

Poetry

Really Short Poem (Haiku, Limerick) - £0.80

Short Poem (Sonnet, Villanelle) - £1.50

Regular Poem (Longer forms, Free Verse) - £2.50

If there is anything that you would like me to write in that I haven't listed, just ask and I will attempt it to the best of my ability. I don't think I'll be writing any epics though! Neither will I be writing songs, as I'm a terrible lyricist.

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I have no plans on doing commissions for scripts but if that is what you specifically want, I'll be happy to try. Prices for these are done on a commission to commission basis. Tell me what you what, and I'll give you a quote.

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I will try to get your requests done as soon as I can, but due to coursework and exams, so I won't be able to spend a lot of time on them. I will let you know if there's going to be a long time where I won't be able to work on it, but other than that don't hassle me on completion dates - It may be some time before they are finished, but I'll avoid it taking any longer than a month (although chaptered stories will possibly take longer). I won't work on more than two commissions at a time for this reason, I'll put you on the waiting list an let you know when I've started on your request.

If you want to request a commission, please note me with the writing style, genre, form and length of the request - as well as a specific subject or theme - like a Christmas story or a love poem, for example. For stories, please give a description or summary of what you want to occur in the story if you have something specific in mind. For chaptered stories, the same - a general outline of what happens in what chapter, and how many chapters. If you want one of your own characters in either kind of story, give me a profile of the character so I know how to write as him/her/it.

Just in case you plan on taking the poem/story and never paying (I'm sure you won't though), you won't get to the see your requested story or poem until you've paid - ie: I finish, you pay. Everyone is happy!

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Journal Entry: Mon Apr 15, 2013, 5:03 PM

Ok, I should definitely drag myself away from the internet and go to bed since I have to get up early tomorrow and I actually want to start being on time for my lectures. (Speedwalking a half hour journey can only do so much *sigh*)

So I'll probably go do that in a second.

Ick.

So I just managed to force out in its entirety a story that has been plaguing my mind for weeks. I'd intended on having it done before I returned to Chi, but my brain kept putting it off. Too scared I guess. It is one of the most bitter things I have ever written, although it has a somewhat uplifting ending. Even then, I still hate myself for writing it since it's drawing from some personal shit last year and with the way I've written it I feel like I'm somehow belittling what happened. Or at least staining it. Also because the two characters' primary traits are two things about myself that I really don't like.

Just spent the weekend writing it, and I'll workshop it tomorrow, hopefully.

If it turns out to be halfway decent, or with the potential to be halfway decent I might enter it to a competition that's closing in May - it's for that same reason I don't intend to upload it. Or if I do, I'll delete it if I send it of.

Beh.

G'night, lurkers.

Skin by =jennyleigh

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*Lychalis

jennifer
Artist | Student | Literature

United Kingdom

Poet by name,
pretentious by nature.

There's a novel in my chest:
split my ribs, pull it out,
have a read -
bedtime literature.

I hope you
remember my
name, strange creature.

Love you too much for words, Snubbs

- Blood Vow: A House of Night RPG

Current Residence: Sutton
Favourite genre of music: Alternative, Electronic
Operating System: Windows 7
MP3 player of choice: Ipod
Personal Quote: Insanity is a virtue.

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~aumarra May 10, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

ohi

*Lychalis May 11, 2013 Student Writer

hellooo

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*Lychalis Apr 27, 2013 Student Writer

well now, that's quite the thank you!

tis no problem at all

*Saidge42 Apr 27, 2013

~Poca-purpleberry Feb 5, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank you very much for the fave ;u;

*Lychalis Feb 5, 2013 Student Writer

no probs

~whoopwhoopjuggalo Feb 3, 2013 Hobbyist

I don't normally read writing on da but your writings are amazing so ya I love them

*Lychalis Feb 3, 2013 Student Writer

thank you!

~whoopwhoopjuggalo Feb 3, 2013 Hobbyist

Haha sure thing!

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