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Livi Ryddle replied to the topic A poem in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
No, actually, but I can see how you’d think that 🙂 I wrote this one day as I was thinking about the day I got to go see her after her surgery a couple months ago, and how much I hate hospitals and the whole mess of things that I was dealing with (had mild depression in the couple weeks before her surgery, I think because I was so…[Read more]
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Livi Ryddle replied to the topic Writing free verse poems in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
@naiya-dyani *grins* It was so fun!
GAAAAAHH YOU’RE RIGHT DANGIT
Sorry XD I get aggravated at myself when I use the wrong homophone XD
And yeah, I get what you said about poetry being “too personal” to critique comfortably. I’ve had the same problem a couple times, even with some prose.
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Naiya Dyani replied to the topic A poem in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
@anne_the_noob14 Aw! <3 Is your mom a nurse?
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Naiya Dyani replied to the topic Writing free verse poems in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
@anne_the_noob14 Okay, that’s really funny. XD It sounds like something my sister and I would do.
Like you said, free verse is hard to critique (I find all poetry hard to critique, honestly, since it feels so personal and individual), but I will mention this one thing–in this line:
I think you mean “faze.” 😛
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Livi Ryddle started the topic Writing free verse poems in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
Alrighty, so! I’ve got this free verse poem I wrote, and obviously since free verse is free of both rhyme and meter there’s not really a “wrong” way to write it, but does anyone have tips on writing free verse?
Below is the aforementioned poem.
The Chess Match
“Checkmate!” you said.
I moved a pawn
In front of my king.
“Pawns can’t move…[Read more]
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Livi Ryddle started the topic A poem in the forum Poets 6 years, 4 months ago
<p style=”text-align: center;”>To Mama</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Starched white sheets,</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Whitewashed walls,</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Hospital beds and</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Sterilized halls.</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Your unwashed hair,</p>
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PenSword replied to the topic Hi 🙂 in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
Those all sound really neat.
I’m trying to figure out how to describe it. XD It’s basically a sort of “life is worth living/anti suicide” message with a road trip aesthetic. If that makes any sense.
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Dakota replied to the topic The Secret Plan (Chap 1) in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
@katthewriter Yeah, I like these too! 🙂
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Katthewriter replied to the topic Hi 🙂 in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
They sound cool not sure if they actually are xD but thanks
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Emberynus The Dragonslayer replied to the topic Hi 🙂 in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
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Katthewriter replied to the topic Hi 🙂 in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
Joe books,are spies, and how that has effected thier family, and dealing with loss, and that you can’t do everything on your own.
Unknown is kinda about forgivness/letting go/pro life
Finding You. .. is complicated. 3 MC’s who are all dealing with different forms of hurt, its an old time/slight sci-fi one.
Scars is about a…[Read more]
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PenSword replied to the topic Hi 🙂 in the forum Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 4 months ago
Those sound neat! What’s the premise of them?
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