youspeakinpoetry

I don't really know what this is about, but I love the language! (And anyways, for half of well known poems don't you have no earthly clue what's going on ...

Character dumps are basically my favorite things ever.

This reminds me a bit of "My Last Duchess," as if the narrator is telling the reader about the object of his affections, and slowly but surely one realizes that ...

You know how sometimes something is so beautifully said that it sticks in your head for days? Yeah. Those are your opening lines. I should have asked for the universe; ...

These words are hilarious, and oddly connected. The latter in particular just so precisely fits a situation, making it specific, exact, and wonderful. I don't shoot things, so I've no ...

At Monday morning assembly, after a few announcements of club meetings and a rambling plea to please return the lab’s frogs, I stood and pronounced: “This Friday the world will ...

New word. Please tell me someone else feels like this. homing (verb)- combination of home and yearning, similar to the term for an animal's return to his/her birthplace 1. when ...