i have a thing, for pretty words.

more often than not, i depend on them. to validate my existence, to properly express an emotional event, to put things in order.

most of what you'll read here is based on things that really happened to me. i tend to write about moments, about real things. though there are of course, a few exceptions.

all the poems and prose you see here have comments before the pieces themselves. i try to explain how they were inspired, or why they were written.

everything you see here is in no particular order. certainly not chronologically. for instance, "let me be" was written before "she was a flame", but not before "heart whisperings". mook.

oh, and you might be wondering what the junk section is. it's not REALLY junk. they're bits and pieces of poems or stories i never wrote. or parts of poetry that aren't any good anymore, but have a few important lines. or some are from old online journals. they're strictly unorganized, and come with no comments because i have NO IDEA what i was writing about when i wrote them.


feel free to check out the other sections (the links are above) for more information.

i hope you enjoy the pretty words :)

poetry, prose, all pretty words, image manipulation and layout © 2002 jamila r. nedjadi