PoeticProcrastination

2009-07-16
My concern for this girl was building as I read this and by the time I got to the last line I was scared for her. Again, you have a way of using the simplest language to impress specific emotions upon your readers, and you do it very well.

2009-07-16
=/ it's a terrible verbal injustice to suffer when someone calls you lazy and you are actually anything but. this piece is poignant and really brings out sympathy for the protagonist from the reader.

2009-06-27
Wow...it sure is some sentence. I really like the alliteration achieved with all of the "d" words--it adds a cool effect to this scarily twisted but definitely (hah! a "d" word!) captivating write.

2009-06-14
cute

2008-11-11
mary mary mary MARY!! you have NO idea how much i have missed your poetry. :D i absolutely love this, especially the way you address him in the last stanza!! priceless. let's all be lovesick dorks, shall we? XD

2008-10-04
wow...very haunting and powerful. how have i not read this before?...ah well, this is brilliant.

2008-10-04
absolutely stunning.

2008-09-11
i really enjoyed this text...what a wonderful command of language and phrasing you've shown here. amazing write!!

2008-08-23
Absolutely wonderful; I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. :D What a treat!

2008-08-21
oh yes, my dear...we of the boy-fancying persuasion are quite apt to suffer all of this (and more) over just one silly boy. one thing i can assure you, though, is that your friends won't reject you, however much you may annoy them. at least, this one won't! : )

2008-08-19
Why do I feel like I haven't read this before? Clearly you wrote it a long time ago...anyway, it's pretty rockin'. I love that it's somehow both simple and powerful at the same time. Awesome.

2008-06-22
beautifully, achingly sad. the image/idea of the spigot shutting off will probably haunt me for a while.

2008-06-17
ps-perhaps our shots aren't given to us...maybe we need to give them to ourselves.

2008-06-06
I like that quote...I feel like that about bagels sometimes

2007-11-16
awwww...this is sooo amazing, Kata!!

i have been off the bay for far too long...

2007-03-06
oh my god.

i love this soooo much.

omg, you are amazingggggg.

2007-01-22
oh my god.

this is making me cry right now.

i can't even imagine what it must have been like before you lost it...because this is really fucking gorgeous.

oh god.

2007-01-07
ASLJDJLDSJSAJLJ.

you are an amazing writer.

your work is raw, brilliant, and hits RIGHT where it is supposed to.

"and the rhythm went right
ur hearts tempo"

yes.

i love love LOVE leaning back on my man's chest and just listening to his heartbeat.

2007-01-07
"used to love."

...

Well.

---

Cameron... : )

<3

2007-01-05
...Wow.

I have never even considered that before.

This is now one of my all-time favorite quotes.

2007-01-02
Usually, haikus seem harsh and chopped because people try so hard to get the right number of syllables that they don't mind sacrificing the beauty and the flow that haikus are supposed to have.

Yours are freaking GORGEOUS.

All of them together flow like a full-length poem.

2006-12-26
Thank you, my dear Zoya! Merry Christmas to you too!!

2006-12-22
I agree.

"you were my wrong path"

=

one of the more amazing lines I've read in a while, for some reason.

2006-12-18
Yes.

"i never knew that
this whole high school romance thing
could be so easy"

Mm hmm.

And

"(despite it all, i
still need to confess that i
think of him sometimes.)"

Yeah.

Except not since the anniversary of Germany.

(I love you. And I love your monster haiku epic.)

2006-12-17
I wish I could write
a poem that flows or a
haiku that makes sense.

(You, in the past, have done both.)

[And you still do it with haikus.]

{And these are rather perfect.}

I miss your word soups

2006-12-15
teehee!! love it. :D

2006-12-13
oh my god.

this is fucking beautiful.

i love you forever.

2006-12-06
omg!! that could totally be the preface to some amazing book that the two of you should write!! i love it!!

2006-11-29
I'm sorry.

But you haven't lost your chance to be great. You are already great and you can only get greater. And also: lurking somewhere at your school is an amazing guy just waiting for the chance to find an amazing girl like you. Please please don't waste time on someone who doesn't deserve a goddess like Miss Mary the Brilliant.

: )

(PS: this.poem.is.fucking.amazing.)

<33333333 crazy woman who I love to death as my gypsy sister

2006-11-02
aw.

i <3 you.

it will all work out all right.

2006-10-31
i'm sitting here reading this trying not to cry

because it's everything i've guessed at about you and your dad but never truly heard put into words

and if i wasn't your best friend and i happened to be some cold distant analyzer of literature i would say that this text is fucking BRIMMING with raw power and it basically just punches you in the side of the neck and then throttles you just for fun

but i am not an analyzer of literature

i am your best friend

and now i'm crying.

2006-10-24
Dear Zoya,

please don't worry!! nobody would ever take offense, don't despair for the lost messages! we will fill that box right back up again! :)

love,
Fern

2006-10-22
Beautiful.

2006-10-14
Powerful and hypnotic and quite unlike anything I've read here on the bay.

2006-10-10
My favorite part=the last three lines. Actually the whole poem. But most especially those last three lines. Especially especially the last one.

2006-10-02
!

?

.

I so get this and at the same time I so don't know what's going on or what will become of it.

Our world isn't what it used to be. We're growing up now. And sometimes you have to let things change in order to help them get better.

2006-09-29
I will always be your true friend, Zoya, dear one!! You are a true friend to everyone on the bay, and this poem proves it!! HUGS

2006-09-27
Oh, Zoya! How beautiful!! Such a delightful, sensuous, vivid description of a very important moment...what a lovely write!!

2006-09-22
:/

I heart this except it makes me sad.

2006-09-12
<333333 times 67.

2006-09-12
Hi.

First off: I am spiritual, not religious. (Yes, there is a difference.) But when I was little, I was neither. My parents were both atheists (scientists and all), but they were very careful to raise me WITHOUT overly influencing my religious beliefs.

When I was in first grade, I was sitting at a table in the cafeteria. I was eating my lunch. And I was minding my own business.

And then a girl asked me if I believed in God.

And I thought about it for a while. A pretty long time, actually. I considered everything I knew about science and religion and nature and divinity. And then I answered her with the utmost confidence:

"No."

(I bet you can guess the rest that happened. Mostly it was about me not going to Heaven and inviting sin/temptation/the Devil and I would die and go to "H-E-double hockey sticks" and then I would wish I had believed in God.)

This was my first exposure to the children of religious fanatics. I was, as I repeat, in first grade.

This kind of thing almost always starts with parents, as I think you said. And it starts as young as six or seven years old.

(I think you meant "OVERLY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE", rather than "OVER", but that's just me being a grammar freak.)

Thank you for this. It's very well-written, and I can tell you were careful to keep it non-offensive. I love finding another open-minded atheist/non-religious out there once in a while.

Cheers.

2006-09-12
Beautiful.

2006-09-04
Oh my god. This poem almost made me cry.

I've been listening to The Beatles my whole life long. Their voices, music, and lyrics are a part of me that I can not remember ever being without. When I was little, I understood that John Lennon was dead, but I didn't know how he died.

When I was about eight, I asked my parents what had happened to John Lennon. I knew he couldn't have died of old age; the other three Beatles were still alive (though George died about a year later). When my mom told me that he had been killed--murdered by a very bad man--I was shocked, and sickened, and I could hardly believe it.

Even now, I cannot concieve of the amount of evil it would take to silence such a brilliant, good man.

Although I wasn't around when he was alive, I have always adored his music, the things he stood for, and the hope he left behind for those of us who need it. Your poem was very inspiring to me, and we can only hope that dear Mr. Lennon can hear your plea.

Thank you for this lovely, heartfelt poem.

2006-09-04
9.

was how old she was when she
probably first met you, but being a
quiet girl, she hid in the shadows.

Later she wished that she
wasn't too afraid to wish you a
happy birthday.


(Happy birthday, dear heart.)

2006-08-27
So ignoring your occasional bursts of
angsty unreasonableness, I would say that I really like this and I understand and I am sooo glad that you (finalll) wrote again and...hm...you win plzkthx?

2006-08-21
This is beautiful. And usually I would say you are absolutely right. But right now...I want. And I'mma try to get. And I'mma keep trying til it wears or til it happens or til I die.

2006-08-15
aww I wish we were going to the same school!!! :( sigh. well, we'll have to make up for it with manymany downtown mall trips!!! hokay? hokay cool.

Ooooh I get it!! haha I've had days like that.

2006-08-13
OMG! I repeat again that you are an amazing songwriter, and if you don't believe me, TOUGH!! Seriously, this rocks. You have to like record these or something once you get the chords worked out!!!

2006-08-09
*hug*

2006-07-28
ackkkk!! nine drinks?! holy crap. haha that would be scary. omg but this is really good. omg it rocks. hahaha cookies are good. so is this. and yeah. omg too many cookies...WHEEEEEEE haha ok sorry. awesome song!!! :D