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"You have to be able to understand the concept of the poem you are writing, and fully understand the emotions coming from it," I hope you don't mean before the ...

art doesn't mimic life--it's the other way around.

Most people think that poetry is free-flowing words, pouring out like water from an urn. Really, nothing could be further from the truth. Poetry has rules and if you break ...

thank you muchly for taking the time to respond to this. I'll be sure to keep your comments in mind during my next round of edits!

I hope these words tug at your wrists with a wry smile, and a face painted like psychedelia in summertime. To pull you down a rabbit hole, with shotgun in ...

reading poetry is only generally useful when you can distinguish the good from the bad--and even more so when you can decipher the why s behind this.

I would like to offer the suggestion that should ever find yourself flipping through a thesaurus while writing a poem, you put both of them down and read some good ...

the following are all old, but those above are older still, so I figured a sort of updating is necessary. uhhhh, I think that's enough for now.

Death will always strike the important matter is, is your soul saved yet? -------------------------------- not that good of a poem. but true. very true. -ghost- speaking or believing something does ...

a halfhearted lawl is all this warrants, and even then I feel as if I've wasted breath. Kindly keep waste in its respective bin.

fair enough, then. :p

it's unfinished, but in need of direction. Especially concerning part "iii". werewords i I am God, in this pantheon of flesh. With my wine red lips breaking bread like bones, ...

it is here, a tired opening line exploding outwards a tired, foppish consumption, lazy and spreading, like oil leaking from an engine block. is the "like" there really necessary? I ...

I don't care if a piece is offensive. Poetry should evoke strong emotions, so that's fine. But when a piece is just careless, crass, and contrived--like this clearly is--it's a ...