Ode to Young Writers Society

Young, yearning poet,
you download your heart,
in sans serif and sans self,
on the center of my screen.

Your life is spelt
A-N-G-Z-Y-U-T-T-Y,
rhymes with "cliche"
and is untitled.



That doesn't stop you.

I wish I were a
young, yearning poet.

This was pretty cool as far as "different" goes. Your title drew me in mostly. I loved the opening part a lot. This part confused me a little though:

Your life is spelt
A-N-G-Z-Y-U-T-T-Y,
rhymes with "cliche"
and is untitled.

Wasn't sure what it meant, and you kind of lost me after this. But I still enjoyed the simplicity of it all in an overall sense. And those opening lines were pretty great, so good job.

Thanks, Smyling! In that stanza I meant that teen writers essentially write a lot about their anxiety so I said their life is spelt A-N-X-I-E-T-Y but I misspelt it to poke fun at the grammar/spelling mistakes that I always run into on this site. The poetry is usually banal and I often see "untitled" as the title to poems.

I liked the poem... It's different and cool...

Hey there

When I first read the title I thought this was going to be a pretty average poem. "I like YWS because..." kind of thing. You really surprised me with the skill and originality of this. The structure is very odd and un-conventional which I always like. Good job.

Hi there. Lavvi in to review.

Perhaps the title is not suited well, but it's a quaint poem. So short, however, that there's little to critique. The title doesn't cover much of all YWS has to offer.

The poem, itself, is more about poets, whereas the title hints to everything. The poem shows not everything, but simply a small part of YWS. Perhaps a main attraction, but only a small part of.

Cute poem.

Hey, Inkwell -- you are a young, yearning poet!

I think this is pretty cool! I wasn't expecting something like this, either, when I saw the title, so I was pleasantly surprised. Although it's almost like you take a dig at YWS with the second stanza, haha! It's so painfully true, though, that I can't but laugh at it.

I really like the first stanza because of "you download your heart" and "in sans serif and sans self" -- I love how there's a font reference, and sans self is clever because our personalities are kind of lost when we write on the computer.

I think the "that doesn't stop you" is the weakest part of this poem. It's duller than the rest of it. But overall, I found this pretty nice!


Demeter
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