https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-236-thorned-roses-library Emily Rose Babbles Ummm, any easier way to keep the line breaks? I mean other than manually adding them with the page content thing down there? en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:27:22 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9413-dave-said--. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9413-dave-said--. Dave wisdom:   He said:   He would have the last laugh   I would never amount to anything   I brought this all on myself   I was shit   I needed to be knocked down a few pegs   I would lose the house   I couldn’t take care of Jamie on my own ... more EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:40:57 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9413 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9413 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9413 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9376-indefensible https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9376-indefensible Do not defend me I am indefensible Defend the rock instead the weed that breaks through it Ask them what they think tell them your secrets The rock will bear your weight the weed is obstinate relentless in its bond to this spot I've not the mass nor grown the roots to tie me here Do not defend me EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:40 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9377-two https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-9377-two Tis something we know that others do not tween dawn and dusk still but the cricket cracked silences   Lover lust lay heavily on you as you on me yet it lights upon me like your tongue upon my nipple   Distraction driven lover will you survive me this us and will it matter beyond sweat soaked sheets   Yes I promised to always love you but I never promised to stay love ... more EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:59:01 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/9377 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/9377 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A9377 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8646-tall-good-looking-girl https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8646-tall-good-looking-girl My writing group suggested that my writing has a lush, seductive quality with rich images even when I do not intend any of that. I was told there is even a warm, inviting tone in the way I read. Now, that was said as a criticism, not a compliment. I was challenged to write in plain language from an ordinary place. Thing is. I had remembered doing that for an entire period of my writing. Ok, I'm babbling. For what it's worth, here is one of them. Sigh, I like lush. I think it's purty. PS. Tis old and ... more EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Wed, 21 May 2008 14:10:28 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8646 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5582-velvet https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5582-velvet   Velvet pillows and candle light cannot soften the edges of good buys or steal your eyes as they slice through skin Halfing a heart for you to step over as you exit one step closer to oblivion a peace   For me to breathe softly upon the candle that shadowed us creeping into each other fanning the flame   Splashing hot wax to dry cold hard on soft plush velvet no one else will ever No, how yielding it once was. EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Mon, 19 May 2008 18:07:56 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5582 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8579-in-hope-of-a-poem-a-fairy-tale https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8579-in-hope-of-a-poem-a-fairy-tale P'Shaw - Edits are needed but time, and life at present does not allow. Do you not hate it when you break your own rules? Hmmm, contradicting yourself is so very, berry EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Thu, 15 May 2008 10:09:35 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 13 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8310-victim https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8310-victim   Suicide comes in whispers giving up your soul your cell   fishness thinking   that you have a right to right or fair unable to fair the weather   of war tore torn in pieces knowing   you are not cannot be anything worth earth or sand   nor snow melted down to the victim   Why breathe?   EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Fri, 02 May 2008 03:22:34 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8310 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8310 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8310 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7771-karma https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7771-karma   Do not attempt to fill this vessel with paper roses they will not last a moment the torrid weather here The water you bear will cry silver tears through tiny fissures only to be lost in these ageless sands bring good earth and seed or nothing at all It is content to hear the wind whistle through its open emptiness to stand still and sing along to to the song of the changing times EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:32:14 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/7771 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/7771 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A7771 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5379-emotional-arrest https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5379-emotional-arrest Old stuff EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:03:02 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5379 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5379 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5379 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3967-werewolf-moments https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3967-werewolf-moments Cliche' - I know. I dug for imagery here, started with the prompt, which is the title, a discussion, a line that played in my head. Cliche' playing upon cliche', but I kind of like it EmilyRose Thorned Roses Library Tue, 01 May 2007 20:12:31 GMT /section-236-thorned-roses-library#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3967 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3967 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3967