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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Gaddafi Sleeps

    a tyrant now rotting away rotting away sounds too harsh ....A web of lies without any love I like this description I dedicate this writing Decadent, hollow, lifeless writing I ...

    Oct 24, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Mother, Daughter, Husband

    The apple never falls far from the tree, I like this proverb and the context you placed it in. How run my chances at the growth of either? I had ...

    Oct 24, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: The Diamond Fist: Chapter 4

    [quote="Ahmadblues"/] Perhaps my most repeated thought of wisdom during my time in office. 2 mys in one statement, reduce the first to 'the most' ....then it has 'my wisdom'....oh, and ...

    Oct 24, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Fanfiction, General Re: The story of Pegasus

    In the early hours of the morning, when the sky was lit from I think by works better here the sun even before it had poked This word seems out ...

    Oct 18, 2011
  • Article / Essay » General, General Re: Coming Out as a Human

    The biggest risk I ever took was going to a pizza store on a Friday after school. i think it works better if you put the Friday after 'after school' ...

    Oct 17, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Like 98'

    The ghost of the memories envelop me --a blanket, a comfort, like tuning my memory to the proper station. I fade reverse into the beat of my childhood. Nostalgia. My ...

    Oct 16, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: You have to wake up!

    [ Awake the sleeping children, Open all closed eyes, Kill all beautiful dreams. You have to wake up! The grammar seems odd and the tense seems to be changing. I ...

    Oct 13, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: The Diamond Fist: Chapter 2

    what? Your name isn't Ahmad? Mac- who? ... so I am very confused today. :shock: Now, his fate was sealed, as if it were possible to put it inside an ...

    Oct 13, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Behind The Cloud Of Dreams

    ........And on her moon like face, are streams of black silk flowing down her rosy cheeks. This description in one sentence seemed very long. If the effect was to show ...

    Oct 13, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Cracked Mask

    The secrets behind me. A my- seems to hold the continuity better tight smile and warm eyes, No one knows what I hide- could work here. See the secrets is ...

    Oct 13, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Deleted 19

    I'm guessing you wrote a blank verse, but being honest, usually blank verses have a way of going along or 'rhyming' and I don't seem to feel as much in ...

    Oct 12, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Drury Lane

    Drury Lane She’s addicted to the swings the blades make. swings the blades make? She lies there, still, watching the unchanging anti-clockwise The description seemed a little too long, sort ...

    Oct 8, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Abstract Poem

    The raindrop slowly runs down rain- run, gives a redundant feeling The broken glass. I'm not sure you should put a full stop here Shattered into pieces Lying on the ...

    Oct 7, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Revel.

    Jensen Acke ahwt? Now my Waht's even messed up. :( The incessant rumble of a slaughter house, I don feel the rumble sounding in here as the right term The ...

    Oct 7, 2011
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: The Diamond Fist: Prologue

    Chapter One Liam Hunt This is like Jodi Picoult- this is the name of the character of this stream of consciousness right ? Make portions before this bold If you ...

    Oct 6, 2011


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch