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S.S. Rose

  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Fox

    Hello Francis Michael Buck, I loved your poem. It was frightening and real and relevant. Very, very nice. In my mind, the Fox was death, chasing me with bared, bloody ...

    Jan 10, 2010
  • Other Poetry Re: Father

    He sees her guilt: The crease of crinkled wretched eyes The wet folding palms like drowning lilies Fetid past clutched in a choking throat He sees the tears: Unwanted guests ...

    Jan 9, 2010
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Specials - Prologue

    Hello Daydreams, This piece is pretty good, but I noticed a lot of similarities to Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series. It also kind of reminded me of the Matrix somewhat. You ...

    Jan 9, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Entry #2 for Hannah's Contest

    Hello Conrad Rice, So this was a nice little piece of writing. Thanks for posting it. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I think you might have gone a bit deeper. ...

    Jan 6, 2010
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Ill

    Empressoftheuniverse - I just wanted to clear something up: And bring this temple down with ease In this line, it is implied that the body itself is a temple, devastated ...

    Jan 6, 2010
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: The Messengers: a blip from the middle

    Hello cjscoot. Nice to get a taste of your prose. All in all, pretty good. It got my attention. Would I by it from B&N? Probably not. Not if this ...

    Jan 6, 2010
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Lovers/ What am I to you?

    I am a bit dissatisfied with this piece. It seems to be just like every other melodramatic love poem that I have ever read in my life. I like the ...

    Jan 2, 2010
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Ill

    Water like a drop of fire Hot and bright and keen like fire Floating down and scorching snow Looking down, can’t let this go Pain skin-deep and ache within Drowning ...

    Jan 2, 2010
  • General Articles Re: Stars

    Interesting, and quite well done. A few grammar errors: too blind to face their problems and take responsibility for our actions. Change their to our if you're going to talk ...

    Mar 5, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: Eventide

    On a lonesome night, Wintry, crisp, remote; Tumbled notes of faith From an inky cloak. As the frost-buds dropped On the slumb'ring loam, All the stars were hidden In their ...

    Mar 3, 2009
  • Lyrics Re: Blame

    'Ello there. So...nice job, overall. I have a few issues to discuss, though. Left to clean up the mess That you left me in I'm not sure if you repeated ...

    Mar 3, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: The Atheism of Trees

    Hmm...interesting. I liked, as your other commentators noted, the originality of the idea, but I also thought the rhyming was forced. When you write poetry, you should rhyme to write, ...

    Mar 2, 2009
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Disignated Driver

    Hmm...I like it. All in all, it's a good job. This piece is quite "organic"....not presumptious in the slightest. You've gotten across the gist of what's going on in the ...

    Feb 18, 2009
  • Welcome Mat Re: Hello there!

    Hello fellow scribblers! My "name" is S.S. Rose. I'm a wannabe poet and writer of prose, but my greatest struggle as of yet is writing with life. Writing in such ...

    Feb 18, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Why?

    Hello, karribeandiva. :) Honestly, join the club. Every writer loves and criticizes their own work more than anyone else does. It's called egoism and the only thing we can do ...

    Feb 18, 2009


If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson