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Tue Mar 29 2005 at 06:41:30 (4.7 years ago )
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Tue Dec 8 2009 at 06:34:07 (8.2 hours ago )
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specialties
math; programming; poetry!
motto
I would share my treasure trove, and for myself alone no portion save...
most recent writeup
August 26, 2009
January 8, 2009: I probably won't be writing again for a while. I'll still be around, to answer messages, and to go through that massive list of nodes I've bookmarked over the past three years. --- Tom
In case you're curious, I'm 24 years old and I live in Philadelphia. Tom is my real name, but Rook is not. If you want to email me, send it to tom.rook.on.e2 AT gmail DOT com

I list below my favorite nodes, approximately ordered from shortest to longest (in case you, like me, are a slow reader).

Poems:

  • Balloons whose strings have slipped from unclutched hands by etouffee
  • and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty? by Chras4
  • You could be the Willow, I could be the Wind. by Angela
  • When I am dead, my dearest by Christina Rossetti, noded by cureobsession
  • Melissa walks by erias
  • Her picture in my wallet, fading, fraying, the face that launched a thousand emotions by IWhoSawTheFace

    Prose:

  • The strength of the hills is in the people by stand/alone/bitch
  • love is simple by prole
  • chiste de la vida by DesiredMisfortune
  • I am the juice box girl by Mer
  • It's always a good idea to tell people you love them if you do by Hatshepsut
  • I suggest you dance. If you need a reason, I'm sorry. by Hatshepsut
  • cold women, kept safe by jessicapierce
  • They say the prettiest girls get to be angels by Dimview
  • How did I get here, Sarah? by junkpile

    Most of my poems are sonnets. I posted twenty-five sonnets I wrote years ago, in batches of five. You can see those at Five sonnets of vanity and the other four nodes listed at the top of that write-up. The sonnets I've written since I came to E2, from newest to oldest:

    Hope Springs Eternal; They might not need me - yet they might -; Look into my eyes and tell me; Venus, when she is the evening star; Now we know; Talk is cheap; Even the moon likes to change her colors; sunshower; Cassandra; Foul-weather friend; abroad; I would recognize that face anywhere; The quiet girl; Guile; May I show you off to the firmament?; I upbraided the night.

    And one that's not so serious: AOL Instant Messenger.

    Free verse:

    your eyes, my lights; As she truly is; performance anxiety; Water nymph; I peer across a chasm and you peer back; A land of magic entered my mind; I've heard your song; A rose from night sprang living; Ageless Flaw; My Offering; A Night in Late June.

    And finally, poems with assorted rhyme and meter:

    Galatea; the wise mapmaker omits his home; Delirious with me, rhapsodize; Frozen in time.

    If you just read all those node titles and your eyes glazed over, I'll say that my favorites among the ones I've written are Water nymph, Cassandra, sunshower, Guile, and Delirious with me, rhapsodize.

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