Adrift. (A Collection Of Poems)

A collection of my poems on random topics

Sorrowed Souls, Shining Eyes

poems, of some sort. just hanging there, really.

The Definition of You and Me

In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.

The Irony of Being a Hero

Felix Welter is a superhero. In the safest, most normal town in America. Did someone say 'be yourself'?

The Secret Double-Lives of Strangers on Trains ✓

There is an intangible magic to the secret double-lives of strangers on trains. She spends her journeys gazing out at city lights outside the window of the train. He watches strangers on the seats around him. Two strangers living off the stories of strangers, with only one journey to find their own. {Written 2013.}

Siderism

❝O Romeo Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?❞ ❝I'm right here.❞ ∘∘∘ As her senior year comes to a close, ultra-feminist theater extraordinaire Amelia Delaney Windham wishes to go out with a graceful bow in her final stage production at Waverly Prep. The only problem: this year's play is Romeo and Juliet. Worst of all...

Noah and Leigh

A collection of notes, a public library, two teenagers, and zero spoken communication.

Freshwater Pearls

Pearls of wrath and pearls of glow. Pearls of wrath and pearls of scorn.

Home For The Lost

AnchoredShips quote contest entry. cover by @peterpanner [ © billie rose two-thousand-&-fourteen ]

The Girl With No Name

There once was a traveling man who met a girl with no name. This is her side of the story, and it begins when she met him up in Delaware in 1937.

See You in Jannah

There are people in this world who are mesmerizing...Like you. She remembered everything she did with you. Remember the constant laughs? The smiles? The troubles, the ups and the downs? She does. And even if you do forget them, it's okay. Because she wrote them down. These were memories that led them to become sister...

A Girl from Palestine

[© decemberrr // poem] beautiful cover by @obsessions-

Mittens

The next December, they were apart. [Sequel to December]

The Traveling Man

He met her up in Delaware in 1937.

Infrangible Ties

This story focuses on thirty-year old Brian ten years after the incident of Sharon, his love's death.

Before the rains

He was the cold,winter wind. She was the warmth of the monsoons. And when they collide...

58 Days With Parker

Parker is self destructive and withdrawn. Aspyn is bright-eyed and bubbly. Parker and Aspyn are complete opposites. Even though they are undeniably different; something is pulling them together. *** "Smoking kills, you know." "Exactly." He said as he took another drag of his cigarette.

String Theory

I fell in love with a physicist, and then we lost ourselves. Maybe there are places we can all be happy. We just need to find those places. Or maybe they don't exist.

Infinite

When an artist falls in love with you, that love never fades. When a poet falls in love with you, she never forgets it. And when their path crosses after years and years of unrequited emotions, both forms of art clash into a masterpiece.

One Life to Live

"You can't just adopt a kid!" I exclaimed. "Sure I can. His name's Pedro. He's from Peru," Nate said coolly. Ryanne Williams has always had a plan. She's never done anything on impulse or just to do it. That is, until she meets Nate, a free-spirited young man who saves her from getting run over by a truck. From that...

Paladin

Sam is the most promising swordsman among this year’s crop of Paladin trainees...and knows it. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam is the kingdom of Thule’s best hope against the violence wrought by demons. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke...

Love at Last Sight

"Rose, I'm sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year." Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deterioratin...

The Jack Box

A short story about a shy girl who has a courageous boy unexpectedly thrown into her life.

Coffees with Luke & Audrey

"We're all looking for the same things in the end." She thinks people are mundane. He thinks people are fascinating. Somehow, they fall in love.

Shades of Grey

There he was, running away again, as fast as the wind, you would blink and he would be gone. Every week the royal treasury would get broken into, money vanished and a black rose left in its place. The absolute enigma was that every time this would happen a starving family would miraculously have enough to eat for mont...

Someday

A look into the lives of two different people in two different situations with the same hope that their someday will come soon.

Blue Eyes

We encounter new people every day, yet we rarely get to know them. What if we took a chance to create a memory? Can we see the words that are not spoken?

On a Hill

'I've never been so scared by a story. This kept me up at night for days. True horror!' Prepare for the terror that awaits you, 'On a Hill'...

The Horrors of Christmas

A collection of Christmas horror stories sure to chill your soul. In 'Christmas Feast' A lonely old man is kindly invited for Christmas by a concerned family, little does he know, he's the turkey! In 'The Christmas Tree' A family get more than they bargain for when they cut down a tree for Christmas, and in 'The Adven...

The Melancholy of Herbert Solomon

In the town of Ettrick, children are vanishing without a trace. All eyes turn to the stranger living in the surrounding woods. A man who shuns all human contact and whose appearance terrifies all who look upon him.