Incandescence

Firestarter The contradiction in the book of Genesis isn't a contradiction at all. For example, if I say, "If you are born, then you will die." It's a true statement. ...

Giving criminals the death penalty is a device used in foresight. While opponents of it may claim that we kill the wrong person, looking back at who we've convicted, there ...

I remember reading this at TYWC, and it gripped me then. It's gripped me now.

grim

This is hauntingly seductive. Beautiful yet esoteric. I think I like you.

Wulie Just 'cos I don't like your poetry doesn't mean it's not worth presenting. God knows I don't like my own poetry. Put your poem back up. My point was ...

This was weak. Real weak. As is most of your other poetry, for that matter. I suggest you stop writing about something that already has millions of poems. It's time ...

wow. stating the obvious courses really worked for you, huh? what's your intructors name? i need to get this down. i think you and my little brother could potentially be ...

This was as blunt as the day is long. Enough with the suicidal poems and poems about death and hurt. If you've written a poem about suicide for every person ...

This was a typical I-Wanna-Rant-Against-My-Parents Stop-Smothering-Me. It's unfortunate you have these feelings, but so does everybody else. Your job as a writer is to make something that captures the

Actually, it snowed in South Texas. Houston and further south, to be exact. It hasn't snowed like that in Texas since '89. And concocting something about being the warmest winter ...

Whoa... Image overload. Not a bad thing, but it's hard to follow the poem with so many colors popping into and out of existence all at once. The point of ...

Also, it seemed to have something going on with Dr. Seuss in some of the lines. Just the way the poem itself flowed seemed fanciful as opposed to grave.

Psychoanalytically, this poem is a masterpiece. If Freud could get his hands on this he'd die. That's a backhanded compliment, by the way. The poem was okay-ish. Not great, not ...

This isn't bad, but it didn't connect with me. The irony of you writing a poem about people dying and then saying "they will never understand" was obviously lost on ...