A Moment in Time -- This is a spontaneous poem for your enjoyment, written at approximately 12 noon on March 15, 2004, to express my utter joy and happiness. Like my spontaneous outline format? I think it needs more spaces... meh.

Trapped With The Shadows -- This was written on May 10, 2002. Another poem for the poetry unit in creative writing. I asked someone to give me an emotion to write a poem about, I was given fear. So I wrote about fear.

Wrong -- I wrote this poem on May 8, 2002. I was working on a lyric poem for creative writing class, trying to think of something depressing. I placed my mind back into the mental state it was in a year before. And this is what I got.

Blind -- I wrote this one in mid January, 2002. It is based on a conversation I had with Khoa online once about why I hate the beach. In fact, almost all of this is direct quotes copied from the IM and formatted into a poem.

Spirit Guide -- This poem was inspired by a dream. I'm not sure when I had the dream, I wrote the poem in September, 2001. It was one of my most vivid dreams, in which a wolf that was about six feet tall at the shoulder told me that I was correct in thinking that I am a dragon, and caused my transformation back to true form. It made me aware of the fact that a wolf would mean a great deal to me later in life. (This has not -yet- happened, but I certainly felt it at the time.)

Mistruth -- This was written in September 2001. I was inspired by a cold morning, when the geese passing overhead were flying towards the mountains. One of my friends pointed to them and commented that geese are supposed to fly south, not east.

I Am -- This link leads to two poems.

• The first, written in December of 1998, was my first writing about my draconity. We had an assignment in English class to write a poem with the given template. I WANTED to write "I am a dragon" so much, but I couldn't get myself to do it. I was too afraid.
• The second poem was written in September of 2001. It is basically the way I wanted to write the poem the first time, but couldn't.

Last of Her Kind -- I found this short poem and pic when I was looking through my archives of old creations in March 2007. I really have no idea when it was made, except that the pic was drawn with gel pens... possibly on black paper. I remember the moon being silver gel pen shaded over with red, and how awesomely cool that looked, especially when I blurred it in photoshop.

Memories -- Another found poem, this one is a little sing-song but hey, a lot of my poetry back then was inspired by my addiction to the rhyming dictionary. Maybe it's a good thing that burned up in the fire.... Anyway, if you ever wanted to know the rest of the poem found in my "Explorer" art piece, here it is.

Lost -- A third found poem. This was a combination of my attempt to describe one of my weirder dreams and the aforementioned rhyming dictionary addiction. In a few places, my rhymes were quite atrocious. I'm sorry if it's terrible.

My Other Name -- Yet another found poem. This one is one of my more philosophical non-rhyming (thank god) poems, about how I don't think my given name fits me (hence why I chose to have people call me by the other). And BTW, my dad and my sister deny this "other name" story, and say my mom just made it up. I don't care if it's true, I like Kiryn better than my stupid legal name anyway.

Silver Wings -- I wrote this one for Khoa for Valentine's Day in 2002. I have a date for it only because I know I drew the accompanying pic while in my senior year of high school. I know it's cheesy, I picked one of the least cheesy verses to go with "Flight". And BTW, "kuar'okree" is Re'vek for "my love".

Zephyr -- A sixth found poem. I really don't know why this one was left out previously. It's actually one of my more favorite ones. It was a poem I wrote for the wind. My name, Kiryn, is pronounced Kee'rin and means "Wisdom of the Wind." The wind is the element I most associate with, as I long for freedom in many things, can be calm or surging with primal energy. The best days are those with a light breeze that tickles my hair, lets me know that the wind is watching over me.

How Can I Explain? -- A seventh found poem. A simple piece of writing, but quite good in my opinion.

Kiryn's Tale -- The eighth and final found poem. At least, I think this is a poem. It's just basically me writing something vague about my existence as nonhuman and the discovery of otherkin, though not in specific enough words that anyone would be able to guess that's the topic.

I don't have many stories, but please read through these with an open mind. If you have time, I would appreciate any comments you could give me, so just send me an email with your thoughts. If you know of a way I could improve a story, or just think one of them is really good and might even be good enough to publish and make money from, let me know. I always welcome feedback, whether it's good or bad. If you absolutely hate a story, tell me why.

Amnesia -- I wrote this story during Math 105 while I was going to DeAnza Community College over the summer of 2001. This story was written as a history for my Advanced Dungeons and Dragons character. I think the funniest part is that I didn't finish writing the story by the time the adventure was over and I was so sick of my character that I had her commit suicide by floating up to a giant demon-snake and shouting "EAT ME!" The last chapter was written by my fiance, it is the last chapter from HIS character's background (when his character met mine), changed and edited slightly, I felt it made a good conclusion to my story so I added it on.

The Young Dragon Slayer -- The idea for this story was originally written back in 2000, for an English class assignment to write a short story. Then I took the idea and rewrote it into a fairy tale for Creative Writing early in 2002. I think I like this version more, but you'll never know the difference because I lost the original! Heheheh.

Lasso -- And here we have a short little story my fiance, Khoa, wrote about cowboys. Very cute, I think.

Vexis Series -- This is a series of short stories that I occasionally add to, they all involve Kee'rin, my Vexis self, either in the future, the past, or whatever. Perhaps to eventually become a kind of autobiography.

• We Must All Follow Our Dreams. -- This first story is in the future, from my partner Sernath's point of view.

• Stop Trying To Solve My Problems For Me. -- This was actually inspired by my sophomore/junior years of high school, when there was a lot of tension in my life from everything that was happening.

• Eidolon -- This story, though it was written by Khoa, is actually in the same universe as the two grouped stories above, I consider it the "unofficial" third, until I write some more. It's the future, his perspective. He originally wrote it... summer 2002? I think. And then he rewrote it and gave the new version to me February 2003. If you liked the original, I still have it here.