Incandescence

Ahoy BirthdayPirate, Stick to pillaging ships until you can coherently piece together your thoughts. Best, Brad

worgs-- Good lord. This suffers from uncurable gangrene. Self-loathing does nothing for you. Best of luck (you'll need it), Brad

BrokenWings-- Dump the abstracts. Cut a wrist and let us watch it bleed. As you actually feel life losing you, you might gain a poem. Now that might be interesting. ...

Swottielottie-- Welcome to the YWS Poetry forums; I am glad you've decided to join us here--if you're willing to try, you can learn a lot from our diverse group. However, ...

xanthan_gum, Thanks for returning. Your questions conjure to me the power of language to equivocate meaning--perhaps, for the first and second sets, it is all three? The obvious direct image ...

Age and Sleep: Revision Forever ours is hope but we are men of shells, and passing years and days are silver sounding bells. Returning joys are dreams and age embraces ...

Hi all, Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. I will consider your comments in future versions. xanthan_gum-- The pauses, as said before, are probably irritating because of ...

Elizabeth, Thank you for the encouraging words. Best, Jack, I am considering replacing 'star-dewed' with 'starry-dewed'; it at least remedies the second stanza. However, the first becomes then problem

Hi lexy, Having read your poem, I see that it is indeed a "first poem"--the work of a beginner. That's not bad. None of us would be here if we ...

Hi Chandni, The first two stanzas are okay; however, they aren't not bad. The words don't arouse anything within me. Leaves and ocean as metaphor for love(rs)? You're beating a ...

MisterWaffles-- Don't be duped. CollegeBoard does not always give you a right answer. There is a peculiar clause in the instructions which reads "choose the best answer"--this is a tricky ...

Hi Razorblade, I have attached some notes I am working on for an Advanced Algebra II class. In section 1.4, you will find a detailed example of how to solve ...

More than a century ago, in "The Brothers Karamazov" and other works, Dostoyevsky warned against the dangers of godless moral nihilism, arguing in essence that if God doesn't exist, then ...

Prospective Poets, Let me give you an idea of where you are and what you're up against. A picture of what's ahead, if you will. You have an interest in ...

Poets-- It seems I've seen a lot of poems posted that suffer greatly because of their line-breaks. To that end, here's a quick-study in them. These are rules of thumb ...