Young Writers Society

This poem is so good.
It is so true as well. I love how you incorporated modern day stuff that is a big problem in the world. When I saw the title I was thinking this poem would be about a fight or something like that, then I saw this. I was so shocked by the shortness however it was really good.
I love how the poem is structured, it is not like and poem where it has just a couple of words on a line then the same again, yours is something different.
I don't really have any negatives about this poem other than it was really good.
At this moment I am trying to type really quietly as I have managed to get my little niece
to sleep which is the first time so yeah.

Poems can be just as u described earlier.In two minutes you have poured your heart out. it is great and although you have given your topic, I will love you to pay more attention to topic as they communicate messages also..I love your poem notwithstanding. I didn't overlook your figures of speech. They are just amazing

Hey Arianna,

This article might help you with the YWS formatting/line breaks (Formatting poetry #3 ).


I like the metaphor of the soul, mind, and hearts being something that must be physically protected against others - like in a war, and then "words" being a weapon is always an interesting concept as well - especially in the context of a poem.

I'd love to see you develop these metaphors a bit more though. Why must we build up our defenses? And what do you mean be walls?

I've heard these metaphors before, so a good way to make them new is to dig deeper into them - and expanding on the specificity of your writing.

That being said, I like the language you used in the poem, and I liked that you kept it all focused on a central theme, my biggest critique is I wanted it to go further and explore deeper - I think as a reader that would help me connect more to the piece and the speaker.

Good luck in your future writing,

~alliyah

Hello AriannaC!

I get your concept here, I have also written a poem about the power words have, so your little tidbit here drew me in. There is definitely a merit to writing short, well detailed poems; but sometimes shorter is not better. With the ideas you have here, you could go a lot further-and that's the thing. it feels like you jotted down thoughts and ideas to progress into something bigger, but then just didn't. Now, onto reviewing what you do have

First of all, when you use a comma, there should be a space after it before the next word. You've run all the words in your entire first sentence into each other.

There are guns,knives, and grenades,but words are some of the worst weapons of all.

guns, knives, and grenades

Hi there AriannaC! Niteowl here to leave a quick review on this short piece.

I understand that you wrote this pretty quickly from the description, but I think there's potential here if you have more time to develop it. The second line has some interesting phrases like "force fields for the soul" and "auditorial war". The war metaphor could lend itself to a lot of interesting descriptions and metaphors if you expanded upon it.

That said, the first line isn't the strongest start. The idea of words as deadly weapons is pretty commonplace. However, the reference to specific weapons opens up some interesting possibilities. Guns, knives, and grenades are all deadly but in different ways and in different contexts. For example, a knife attack is close range, like a personal insult, while a grenade is wide-ranging and indiscriminate, like someone making a generalization like "All people who are X are evil" without thinking about how hurtful that could be.

Overall, this is an interesting little nugget, but it doesn't feel like a complete piece. There's a lot of possibilities for expansion and making something compelling out of the basic idea of words as weapons. Keep writing!