• Lena and Gecko are now friends 2 years, 10 months ago

  • Lena posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 10 months ago

    Well, thank you!

    In reply to - Lena wrote about the word leap I envy how the effortlessly the frog leaps From lilypad to shiny forest-green lilypad, How he knows exactly where he is going And has such easy confidence in the fact that Wherever he lands There will be something beneath his feet. • View
  • Lena posted an update: 2 years, 11 months ago

    Is it just me or is it extremely annoying that if you write more than a certain amount, not all of it gets displayed on your profile?

  • Lena wrote about the word tide 2 years, 11 months ago

    the tide scampered away from my feet upon the moist sand, rolled away to join the huge expanse of navy blue sea. i let it take with it all those scrambled-up memories that were no longer worth thinking about. after all, it was a new year. i deserved a clean new slate. i closed my [...]

  • Lena wrote about the word waltz 2 years, 11 months ago

    i remember when you taught me the waltz and at first i couldn’t get it right, being as how i was so uncoordinated. but you waited patiently for the longest time until i finally learned and we would dance together in our little world, until we could hear nothing but each other’s footsteps and the [...]

  • Lena wrote about the word waltz 2 years, 11 months ago

    she ran into the forest, leaping and bounding over the thick roots of the tall oak trees. she did cartwheels on the soft, damp earth. she waltzed, inviting every single animal to join her, from the shy spotted deer hiding beneath the bushes to the brightly chirping cicadas. the day was coming to a close [...]

  • Lena wrote about the word revolt 2 years, 11 months ago

    they decided, one day, that it was time to revolt. they were done with the stereotypical-teenager deal. they were going to be individuals. they cut their hair and ripped holes in their jeans. they stopped listening to the radio. they questioned every aspect of conformity. they broke the mold, couldn’t be labeled or classified or [...]

  • Lena wrote about the word without 2 years, 11 months ago

    She existed, but no more than that. There was no longer that fiery glow just beneath her surface. She had been extinguished; she was an lantern without a flame. She was lifeless.

  • Lena posted an update: 2 years, 11 months ago

    And thank you for the follow @eeumeyeelwhy ! This is so exciting :)

  • Lena wrote about the word leap 2 years, 11 months ago

    I envy how the effortlessly the frog leaps
    From lilypad to shiny forest-green lilypad,
    How he knows exactly where he is going
    And has such easy confidence in the fact that
    Wherever he lands
    There will be something beneath his feet.

  • Lena posted an update: 2 years, 11 months ago

    First follower…
    Thank you so much @vish !

  • Lena posted an update: 2 years, 11 months ago

    We used to be like the universe
    and you were the sun,
    a huge sphere of raging fire.
    And I was helpless Mercury.
    I was trapped eternally,
    in a fixed path,
    revolving around you.
    And no matter how hard I tried to break free,
    your gravitational pull was far too immense.
    And (though they said
    it wouldn’t happen in our lifetimes, wouldn’t happen for billions and billions
    of years)
    I wished that your core would collapse and explode
    into a supernova.
    Leaving
    nothing but a black hole
    behind.

  • leen posted an update: 2 years, 11 months ago

    They’ll name a city after us, and later say it’s all our fault.
    Then they’ll give us a talking-to, then they’ll give us a talking-to, because they’ve got years of experience.
    ~Regina Spektor

  • leen wrote about the word leap 2 years, 11 months ago

    She stood at the edge of the diving board. She had to do it, had to: or else they would all laugh at her. But even that reasoning wouldn’t allow her feet to propel the rest of her body off of the board into the shimmering, cold, turquoise water below. She was terrified.

  • leen became a registered member 2 years, 11 months ago