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S.S. Rose

  • Lyric Poetry Re: All Hath (Rated 12+ for intenseness)

    Hey Golden! Mmmm....So. I kind of like this. Overall, that is. What I don't like: ...Seriously silent You can do better! Alliteration is nice, but not for its own sake. ...

    Dec 11, 2010
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Clementine

    Hiya Clem! This was alright. Well-executed vocabulary, although I disliked the fact that you used "spheroid" twice. The first stanza was my favorite, and I loved: (Clementine cries that she ...

    Dec 11, 2010
  • Narrative Poetry Re: A Different Kind of Gold

    hey coral! senorita rosa here to be your reviewer! so this is my first review in a long time, i'm a bit rusty, so bear with me. i liked this ...

    Dec 10, 2010
  • Romantic Novels Re: My Moon -- Prologue

    “My moon, my moon! Touch it, have it!” A child’s voice echoes like rain in the brisk November air. It has been a typical Michigan autumn, and Papa carries me ...

    Nov 30, 2010
  • Lyric Poetry Re: ded men

    Eva! It's been far too long! I love this piece! Your language (and maybe not word use so much as dialect and grammar) is very evocative...like Lumi mentioned, it paints ...

    Nov 9, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: Sylvia

    Hello Elinor! Thanks for reviewing my poem! Yes, it was very unclear and cryptic -- sorry 'bout that. "Sylvia" refers to the author/poet Sylvia Plath, whom I just had the ...

    Oct 30, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: Sylvia

    I never wear lipstick, So when I do it’s like I bit Into a pomegranate Or a neck full of blood God knows you’re heavy – You’re the reason I ...

    Oct 29, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: Luna

    “Luna” Moon-painted water – A million tides of black evening silk Speckled with salty white and moaning with The deepest of blues I am upon the edge, or rather I ...

    Oct 28, 2010
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Agápe

    Hello Everyone! Just a quick note: I'm still iffy about the title - I'm debating between Éros, which means "sensual love", because that certainly is part of this poem, and ...

    Oct 25, 2010
  • General Articles Re: Erased

    "The Lord replied to Moses, 'Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my Book.'" Exodus 32:33 My feet crunch the leaves, colorless in the night. They are ...

    Sep 2, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Familial

    I almost love your short stories...I adore your poetry, though. I almost wished your story would flow better, but that was just my first impression. On second thought, I liked ...

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: My Flotsam Love, Part II

    Sudden stillborn time erupts in snapdragon flame: A sun-spate summer. Onionskin eyes wide to a sky of kissing blue, Of June berries and rain-sick wind. Your eyes of coffee grounds ...

    Aug 29, 2010
  • WRFF Archive Re: Reviews from a Marine (Re-opened)

    Please review! I would greatly appreciate it! Many thanks, S.S. Rose

    Aug 29, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: My Flotsam Love, Part I

    Be still, heart of taken, pulsing sin – No more do tears of blood atone. That dreary toast! as hellish haunts do Raise to sneering lips their cups of fire, ...

    Aug 29, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: The Memory

    Antiquated memory-lights glow Through faded paper leaves As retrospect clouds thought and breath, And Time syncopates the heart’s beat. A summer-spiced sun Falls in white drops of rain Through burni

    May 6, 2010


That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page.
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon