Thriving Fire

*gasps* wow, me like... :D Right, time to start speaking in proper sentences. Basically, your poem did to me what I've started noticing a lot in good poetry- it hit ...

*I wanna be in on this, but if I can't that's ok* Name: Brian Dempsey Nationality: Irish Appearance: Bright blue eyes, crew cut hair, stubble, built like the butt of ...

Great work... What's striking about this is its positivity; your outlook on life (or the world, or whatever) seems to be really optimistic, and not satisfied to dwell on the ...

It's probably a pointless exercise to crit a poem that the poet doesn't like, but then again, I prefer pointless exercise to the proper, energetic kind :-) Everyone's complaining about ...

Here's the thing: using words like 'pain' and 'hurt' isn't a problem in poetry, absolutely it's not (at least in my opinion). The problem is, when you start clogging it ...

God I love this... For one thing, the atmosphere is almost tangible. I really get the sense of two people in love (or perhaps just friends?), spending their days merrily ...

Hmm... Maybe this post's title is a little dramatic... Ah hell, it's accurate :D A year or so ago I joined YWS, and about 11 months ago I stopped posting. ...

I may be gone from the storybook (for now at least, but I'll probably be back), but this has to be said: You slit Skuller's throat. Forgive me my madness, ...

When Philip Pullman (author of the His Dark Materials Trigoly, for those of you who live on Mars) is asked this question, his answer is invariably the same: [the isn't ...

The next thing Skuller knew he was lying face down on a cold stone floor. His vision was blurred, his head felt like it was impaled on a thousand knives, ...

Wow. That's the only word I can think of at the moment. Wow. Your mix of language, unusual and innovative, powered this poem along brilliantly. This is what poetry is ...

Although he didn't look it, Skuller was amused. The Trojan mob that had assembled in front of him were looking on in such shock that he couldn't help laugh in ...

Don't know why I'm bothering posting here because I've no idea how to name places but what's been said before is pretty much it. I was once going to write ...

I'm only posting on this because you've probably written the most memorable title to any thread I've ever seen. 'And I'm an alchohoic'??? Where did that come from? Anyway welcome ...

Fair point. :lol: