somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond ( Read more... )

It's the Dream
It's the dream we carry ( Read more... )

I am from the computer ( Read more... )

I haven't had time to post in SO long, so I'm just going to do what I can. Since I am currently listening to my new live Ani CD (recorded in Portland on my birthday in 2004), I will start with the fact that not only did I go to an Ani concert last Friday, but I also (thanks to crowjane!) got to see her first ever poetry reading the day before, and got an ( Read more... )

some older, and some new

( evidence )

I caught the scent of winter on your face
too soon
I felt myself curl up inside
it never fails to surprise me

you are the smell of warm nights
the sensation of a cool breeze on bare skin
you are the light of the harvest moon

but the scent of winter was on you
and I was still there

Child's Parkby Ted Hughes ( Read more... )

When I was younger, I wrote all the time, and had a few things published in literary journals. (If you go to Google and type in "Amy Burr" and click "I'm feeling lucky" you will see some of my stuff.) When my mom was here she gave me a newspaper article about a poetry contest, which pretty much reminded me that I haven't written anything in a long ( Read more... )