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After a while, homosexuality won't be such a big deal. It's like racial and religious differences; as a society progresses, it generally becomes more tolerant and stops making a big ...

Thanks for the comments, guys! I really appreciate it. This poem was definitely an exercise in imagery for me, but I had a lot of trouble trying to get a ...

I agree with you in that a piece should be judged by its merit and not its subject matter, but I don't think this was well done. There's a difference ...

It often depends on what I'm writing, but I almost always need background noise, and music comes in handy for that. It's also inspirational; today I was listening to Dire ...

Sister.

Remember: in whatever you write, you must put a teaspoon of humanity, otherwise, it will not cause the effect you want. *nods vigorously* I most definitely agree with Clau and ...

[Claudette] 10:46 pm: =/ Colly, it wasn't a haiku *bites* Well, it has 17 syllables, unless I'm counting badly because I'm running on about five hours of sleep. Although...modern haiku ...

*pounces* Haiku! I really like this. I think it shows the depth (but also simplicity) of a haiku very well. I don't know what the title means, either out of ...

Paris.

I. There are no cherries here, just flat blossoms I would tuck into nests of cut grass, and sit with hands stained earthy tones, waiting for birds to land in ...

Oh, textbooks are the best! One of the people who used to have my World History book liked to draw on the pictures. There was this one of a bunch ...

Wow, Cameron, you instant killer of stanzas! *high-five* I like it much better now, although you might want to play around with the sentence structure in the last stanza so ...

I'm still having trouble, whence, but thanks for taking a stab at editing it...it's still awfully abstract, and I think the flow was better in the first version, although I ...

If I see someone younger writing total crap, I usually just don't crit it, just to be on the safe side. Younger writers just have to find the right audience, ...

I agree. Something more solid would be nice; a specific instance, a place... I did actually understand this poem, and I really liked what you were trying to express, but ...