Lynlyn

It wasn't quite the best of times, but it really wasn't the worst of times, so seeing as it wasn't really either of the extremes, maybe it was the most ...

This is a nice poem, but I agree with bubbles on the fact that it could be better if you included a little more of the abstract rather than direct ...

Thanks for the feedback, it means a lot. I played around a lot with the last stanza because I didn't like that line ("after the black" - it used to ...

Did you walk here once, on these cobblestones? Did you stand in this place and see the halo of damp sun collected at the edges of ivory Apollo's form? I ...

I think Dana is an Alphasmart model. I never knew the name for one of these until you mentioned it, but now I realize that I've seen one of the ...

Hmm, I believe JKR does that alot. ...Yeah, she does sometimes. Then you take a story like "Billy Budd" which is a series of info-dumps with enough lines of dialogue ...

Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't expect what you write to be perfect. It won't be.

I'm back from my European tour now! I only posted a few times before I left, so I'll try and be more active. I managed to squeeze in a couple ...

Just chill, man. Don't sweat the small stuff. I didn't have to look anything up to read this, and I certainly don't think it's wordy as a poem in general. ...

This is amazing. If you printed this on a shirt, I would wear it. (And, probably, so would a thousand other people at the large Classical-culture-geekfest I'm going to in ...

It's nice, but... I don't know. I'm sure the repetition of "pure" and "purity," etc, was intentional, but it just sounded a little sing-songy to me, really. I agree with ...

Many of the earlier posts pointed out things that I noticed. I think your description is a little heavy in some places. That's pretty much my only beef with this ...

This probably isn't early enough for you, but I was talking with my history teacher about the McCarthy era, and he mentioned that in addition to a "red scare" there ...

I live in the South-East, but around here, there's a fair bit of racial disdain against anything Muslim. There is in the northeast too. The way my grandma talks about ...

Dia de los Muertos? Doesn't that translate as day of the dead or is my spanish just really poor? I think it's more of a "paying homage to the past" ...