Young Writers Society

Oh, Meenal. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
When I first read this, I held a hand to my heart because hOLy SHiTaKe mUsHrOoMs, my heart burst with empathy and my mind filled with memories of sleepless nights spent scribbling in notebooks, fuelled by energy normally only found in caffeine (which I do not consume). That energy was the need to write, to empty my mind on the paper and bare my soul to whoever deigned to pick up the notebook.
Meenal, this is beautiful and so, so real. Thank you for writing the words my splintered poet's soul has always tried to say 🫶💜

Hai :3

I adore this!! There's this beautiful melancholic nostalgia that just radiates from the poem, and I can feel that mix of sadness and reflection in every line. The way you talk about writing as this outlet during those dark days really struck me!! It’s like the paper became a lifeline in a way, right? The blue lines and white space imagery is so perfect because it captures that sense of emptiness and potential all at once ~~ Like, the world was falling apart, but you had that one thing!!

I love how you describe the loopy cursive and those indents left on the back of the pages!! It's like even when the words aren't visible anymore, they left a mark. There’s something so raw and emotional in the way you describe your writing as these angry, lovesick letters. That really hit!! You managed to capture the tangled mess of creativity and heartache in such a raw way, and it made me feel like I was sitting there with you, both in the "dark days" and right now.

i sift through my musings
among those i call home,
we all laugh at my words that once held my pain.

writing is
a little piece of your soul
that you give away
in hopes that someone else will have the puzzle piece to complete it.

Hello! AnotherCrowInRow (or Kay, because let's be honest - the whole username is too long) is here with a review
Okay, so... I didn't notice any major grammar mistakes or typos or any of those stylistic/grammatical things that sometimes get in the way (nobody's perfect)... so I can jump straight to my favorite part of writing reviews - stuff , which I liked, my interpretation and so on.

So...very nice job! I like that even though you use free verse, the poem flows very nicely (I don't know how you poets do it, but keep it up! You absolutely fascinate the part of the writing population that includes people like me, that is, those who barely know how to write a stanza that somehow sounds like something readable). When reading, simply feel the right...flow of words? I hope I used a good phrase.

I love how you talk about writing. It's very relatable. I personally liked the beginning and the end of the poem the most, which expressed the emotions associated with writing and the fact that writing is really not just a few words, but something more. The following parts appealed to me in particular:

during the dark days

when i never wanted to see another person

the paper was there for me.

blue lines and white space,

emptiness and yet everything.

i couldn’t help but put pen to paper.

and if you look back on my loose-leaf from that time

you’ll find that there are neatly raised indents on the back,

loopy cursive leaving its legacy.

my prose endlessly addressed to the people i loved.

i found a strange sort of comfort in knowing they would never be found.

writing

is more than pen on paper

or clacking on a keyboard

or even the wild art form that a true poet would say it is.

writing is

a little piece of your soul

that you give away

in hopes that someone else will have the puzzle piece to complete it.