heartbreak
They can break your heart, but they can't break your soul; poetry about lost love that comforts and uplifts.
This is Gospel
This is the first of a short series I am working on. I use a generator to determine which lyric I will be using with a random song from my music library. I then use the lyric as a starting point and write until I can't anymore. This is the first of this series.
By Ashley Lee-Powers10 months ago in Poets
A Glosa for You
I was doing a little cleaning up this weekend when I found that I had some old files that I had not read or even thought of for many years. One of those files was a glosa, a poetic form where each stanza ends with a line taken from another poem or song. I kept to some of the standard rule - eg. ten-line stanzas - and then strayed beautifully to tell a story.
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Poets
Critique of Stephen King's Elevation
Elevation By: Stephen King Hardcover Fictional Novel Rating: 3 Stars Elevation is a short novel, based around Scott Carey and his unfamiliar medical phenomenon. As he tries to navigate through the recent spontaneous weight loss, he is in a feuding battle with his neighbors over their dog’s business in his yard. What he doesn't realize is that they are having their own struggles after recently opening a restaurant and also having a differing lifestyle that the community does not approve of. With Scott’s new found confidence he pushes himself to do things that he would have never imagined he could do before, making him feel elevated mentally and physically.
By Kamden Shavluk10 months ago in Poets