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Author: harmamae

  • EPICNESS in the Footsteps of Tolkien

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    I went through a phase of being obsessed with epic fantasy (see the post Fantasy Round-Up). I still like it, but it’s less of an obsession. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time series… the more epic, the better. So when I was assigned to write poetry in school I tried my…

  • Phrase Rant: “This Will Change Your Life Forever”

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    I hate it when people tell you, “This will change your life forever.” Because it doesn’t. Or, looking it from the other side of things, every experience changes your life a little (if I go to class today my life is different than if I’d skipped). People say this about all kinds of things: books,…

  • An Immeasurable Fairyland

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    Another ‘light-hearted flight of fancy’ – also, the only bit of poetry I’ve been paid for. In contrast to last week’s poem, it rhymes. 🙂   An Immeasurable Fairyland I walked into a lonesome glade Where on stem and leaf and every blade Of grass there danced a fairy maid And trails of gems through…

  • Ghosts of Stories Past

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    This should’ve gone up yesterday. I blame ten-page History papers that are due today for my forgetfulness. Ever have it that everything about a season reminds you of the story you spent all your time writing last year? It’s an odd feeling, kind of like déjà vu, that creeps over me on a regular basis.…

  • Rhymes and Non-Rhymes

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    I like poetry to rhyme. Sure, some non-rhyming poetry is neat, but as a kid it stuck in my head that poems = rhymes, and poems that don’t rhyme feel weird somehow. Still, I’ve written some stuff that doesn’t rhyme. I like the challenge of rhyming, but when I want to write an idea quickly,…

  • Limerick

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    No time for a deep, insightful blog post on the meaning of life today, so instead you get some nonsense poetry. Namely, a limerick:   I walked along the beach And stepped upon a peach. I slipped, and whacked Muscle Man, who cracked And now I’m quite dead meat.     Not exactly a wonderful limerick,…

  • Vanity, Oh Vanity

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    OR: What Do You Mean I’m Not a Great Poet – I Got My Poem Published In a Vanity Anthology!   On the subject of poetry, it’s very difficult to publish poetry, or get famous doing it. But that’s not exactly obvious if you just google “publish poetry” or “poetry contest” and thousands of hits…

  • Frustration

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    Frustration is… … having a zillion writing ideas in your head, but not having time to actually write them. Because you have to write a boring, derivative history paper instead. Or study for statistics. I came across the concept of dead fanfiction today – basically it’s fanfiction that never gets updated because of other life…

  • Teenage Dreams

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    This poem was actually on a bus ad – our city has this program called “Poetry on the Bus” to put poetry in everyday transit riders’ lives, and my poem was selected for it a couple years back. It was actually pretty cool to hear some of my friends saw it. It’s actually the last…

  • Sci-Fi and Me: The Uneasy Truce

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    After discussing Fantasy last week, I decided to examine its sister-genre, Science Fiction, next. I used to swear I hated science fiction. And I had good reason to – every sci-fi forced on me in school was invariably depressing (I’ve never been a fan of depressing stories, I usually read to escape to a happier…