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  Remembering the Present

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Remembrance of things present Forgo to the east the beginning and the rise Looming over horizon with wanting eye Yearning to reach the west Before the step has been placed in quest Behind the hills and crested hollow The silent bird blissfully wallows In his perch from ears...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hidden Color

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  What hue is painted in bliss complexions? That is in life’s freely given confections Is it light as each struck chord? Or heavy as what we can afford Does it define the way we go? Yet the direction that point our toe Is it the color that frays with time and weather? Falling softly like a so...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  In the light

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Were the blossom plucked And the wind breathed Upon the air of luck To give cautious ease And the sun lit To shine the morrow over That sin be weaned from tit And buried beneath the clover Yet take the stem and the flame To conjoin them as one Not to any creature mane But to let love run ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Note on Fashion

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  That cloak of cloth on thy death Has given heed to Satan’s breath And in the seed behind the walls The mind of man stumbles falls From his trick of bearing conscious thought He has brought about virtue’s rot Instilling within the waiting soil That loathing snake in his coil Opened the e...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Sonnet 3

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Curse sweet sorrowful dew that brims my eyes Retract humble kiss from my mourning heart Perceive no more forward that turns and dies Take upon your hand which is pleasures part Illuminate desire from tossing spite Scoff not at what occurred in consequence Possess thought when happiness reaches...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Sonnet 2

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Woe longing glance reflect the heart’s desire And perceive the sun painted on sweet face Enflame envious lust ever higher Turning yet to fall from glorious grace Asunder heart that beats against my will Let evil rhythm transform failing course To hold thy worth and have another trill Close ...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Descending Raja

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Raja The fire raved making the sky red as it scorched my skin, but I did not scream. I had to be quiet if they heard me I would die. I watched as our home fell to the ground tears springing into my eyes, knowing that mother was in there and I would never see her again. Brother and sister lay asleep...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Modified Sonnet 1

  By Jordan S., Spanish Fork, UT

  Yet you betray me, oh caressing eyes to glance upon which thou cannot attain Surely unto which creature love yet dies But what weapon do you plot my hear maim is it wonder, persuasion and clever sort or is it plucked by cupids nimble lust pray what arrow brings about the court and entwines i...