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  • Lyric Poetry Re: Love Is Blue

    the crucifix reference is because Jesus was willing to give anything for those he loved. This poem is essentially an extension of that idea--that the narrator just wishes for a ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: What Is Your Favorite Non-YWS Literary Site?

    I tried out and left in disgust.

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Randomosity Re: On Hiatus and Returns

    haha, no worries. I only posted this because people kept asking. I hardly noticed I left :p

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Randomosity Re: On Hiatus and Returns

    some new members may not know me, but this thread isn't for them :p. I disappeared mysteriously after the summer, and have now returned. Since people were asking, I decided ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Love Is Blue

    EDIT: sorry about that, it's back now. Love Is Blue and-I-fell-in- ..... with gasping breaths and crucifix arms thrown wide. Sodden clothes as magnets to a sea bed I'm just ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Sister Moon

    First off, read this: Now, what we have here is a nice little poem about stars and dancing through the sky and happy times. All is well, right? Wrong. You ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Art & Photography Re: Misproportions and Irresolutions.

    All except for Paulsies, who's is from mid-early years :p Thanks for the feedback! It's too late to fix the chin and hair, but I'll definitely keep that in mind ...

    Dec 8, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Atrophy For Lovers, Amorphy For Others

    Atrophy For Lovers, Amorphy For Others. Steal my breath at gunpoint, CO2 for your finger-knit sack. Pawn it off, pull it out in lungfulls; (oxidized and in your eyes) this ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Blue Sky's

    Rhyming can add flair and fun to poetry, yes, but it is still a restriction. Here you are clearly bound by your decision to have a rhyme scheme, and that's ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Randomosity Re: Why be worrying about You-Know-Who...

    *points to avatar* enough said

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: How do you write poetry?

    it used to be I would think of a line or two and just write those down and build off them. But in the past few months, I haven't been ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Art & Photography Re: Misproportions and Irresolutions.

    EDIT: UPDATED! Scroll down down down for delicious new things. Sorry for the flooding. :p

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: The "I'm Back" Thread

    Back, perhaps. We'll see :)

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Ice Land

    Just a note: while irregular linebreaks can add wonders to poetry, they can be equally devastating if ill-used. I love the fact that you're going against the grain and having ...

    Dec 7, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Happy Halloween Everyone!

    I ripped up the T-O-T field as a Jester, and then I'm throwing a Halloween party tomorrow, where we'll go trick or treating once again, just to see if we'll ...

    Nov 2, 2007


It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind