smorgishborg

Hey, fellow Minnesotan! First, the font and colors distract from the words. Second, I'd be curious to know your background with regards to all of this. Pardon me for generalizing, ...

It's a misfire. You quite clearly are a good writer, but this just doesn't measure up in any way really. It feels lazy and undeveloped, there's nothing for the reader ...

You, the Arsonist The writing exercise in front of the class concerns a pile of leaves depressed and repressed stricken from nature and laid to rest under a great fluorescent ...

Thanks for the responses! The way I approached this was kinda funny actually, I had read an article in NatGeo a few weeks back about State Fairs, and was inspired ...

I thought this was a Black Eyed Peas song... BOOM-boom BOOM-boom Your heartbeat BOOM-boom BOOM-boom Is constant Credit for being original, I thought about this and a bit, and I ...

The Minnesota State fair took place a couple weeks ago, and I went with my camera. Great decision. Here are a couple of the better shots. The entire album is ...

Cute and original! I was once a gigantic piece of the steep cliff block an independent, blithe rock I would suggest a less passive way to start this poem, but ...

It's so wonderful that the president would mention YWS in his speech. The story about Nate is truly touching- I didn't know he was thinking of a full commitment to ...

Alright, got it, the @ symbol looks like all of these things. But what's the greater significance? I could find clouds all day that look like any one of these ...

Cold Cuts Every week on YWS I read poems about cutting. And I wondered, what’s all the fuss about? So I tried it. I got a loaf of earnest bread, ...

I wish you could find something better to talk about than love. Love found. Love lost. Love taken. Love given. Love forbidden. Love ignored. I am tired of "love" as ...

Very nice! At first, I likened it to a Vampire Weekend song. But towards the end, it had a very sweet Calvin and Hobbes feel. Driving through the trafficked streets, ...

It depends on what influences what. A character with charisma can influence the plot, if I was writing a story about Abraham Lincoln, I would be writing a story for ...

lol is a reaction I had when reading this poem because it was bad. I can't tell if this is a troll, or if you actually thought that making a ...

Your writing ability is not the issue, nor is the subject matter. What's so terribly wrong about this poem is an issue so huge I can only hope to contain ...