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  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: why does the grass grow?

    This is a cute, short little poem! I think what could work here would be to build on your connection to believing in myths and fantastical things, or even doing ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:05 pm
  • Research Re: What is school like?

    This is an old topic, but I figured I could say some stuff about middle school. First, some schools are going to be indoor if in typically colder/warmer areas so ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 6:00 am
  • Writing Tips Re: What are some good online writing tools?

    Hi! I don't know if this answer comes too late, but I wanted to try and respond to this question. I'm assuming that all of your assignments are writing ones? ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:44 am
  • Research Re: Jewish eating traditions? And general info

    As a quick message to start your research, here are a few things to consider. Passover is a very important holiday that brings its own set of traditions to a ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:11 am
  • Research Re: Recommend books to my introverted vampire girl?

    Late answer, but this caught my eye right now. For someone who's a teenager and likes grittier books/themes/not-supernaturally-linked, I would say that she could probably scope out stuff like Alice ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 4:58 am
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: April Madness 2019

    Poem Edited (sorry!) i wasn't sure whether to feel elated by a house-flower we could take care of, or nervous because you're an orchid, cursed to wither in my shaky ...

    Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:30 am
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    reference: 13. bellis perennis you're common, too worn, worn, worn, in the airy green fields, other flowers already born. botanists now say, bleed, bleed, bleed, or let you wither away ...

    Sat Apr 13, 2019 7:25 pm
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    Thanks @Cadi! A couple of these poems I've tried messing with tones and ended up with a few versions XD I love trying to create little images, and "tangerine -" ...

    Sat Apr 13, 2019 2:56 am
  • Will Review For Food Re: Key's Keysmashing

    Hey @zwilliams welcome to YWS! You filled this out just fine. I finished your review!

    Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:00 am
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    reference: 11. taraxacum officinale (a) my mother, who's typically bubbly-like-soda declared war ready to squat for hours against these cute dandy little lions that pop up daily in the somewhat ...

    Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:48 pm
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    Thank you so much @alliyah! I'm glad you're enjoying my patch of flower poems XD reference: 10. bidens torta you're known as being simply sweet, in your hidden away place ...

    Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:49 am
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: why does the grass grow?

    I can tell you like rhyming and repetition ;; ) I think it works well in shorter chunks, as shown here, and I like the extended metaphors!

    Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:23 pm
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: these benedight flowers

    reference: 9. rosa arvensis you swooped in like a big bat with wings of white onto my blank loading page, led by an orange-yellow head like that crayola crayon that ...

    Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:50 pm
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: onthestraight&narrow

    I wanted to pop by and say that there's some wonderful imagery in these poems and that repetition worked very well in Mr. Poe's. There's such emotion in your acrostic ...

    Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:24 pm
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: give me the romance

    Hey there! All of these poems are really neat - I like the questions format of the first and fourth ones, but especially the latter, as I think you've got ...

    Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:18 pm


That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)