I laughed so hard at "word vomit". I couldn't help it. I love to play with imagery. I like using graphic details to capture peoples attention because it's like my mom said, poetry is supposed to be pretty and I always wonder, who says it should be that way? It's like paintings and other visual...
I have this thing where I like to nitpick at it. I have to find the right word for what I'm trying to describe because I don't want a word that's broad term. I hate describing something using -like, for example bird-like, I know there's probably a specific word somewhere for what I'm trying to...
I tried a couple of years back, but I got too frustrated with the rule where you had to limit the poem to a certain number of characters per line and then you could only have so many lines or less. I didn't have anything that could work with the rules so I gave up. The only reason I know about...
I understand that. It really burns me that they expect you to just change something that's so personal. I've always felt that a piece of writing is a part of a person. They're expressing something that maybe they can't express in everyday life or feel like they can't share in a traditional way...
Nice. *grinning* There are poetry contests that you can compete in, a number of them don't even require an admission fee to compete, but you have to really be selective. There's always that chance that you'll run into the type that says they're a competition, but they'll put anyone's work in...
I'm not sure how nudity is considered inappropriate in poetry to start with, but what exactly were you supposedly trying to persuade people to do in that poem?
That is pretty laughable. How could it be inappropriate for a book, but appropriate to display at work? Back in college I was part of a writing group and at the end of the school year we had a public reading where all the members would read their work. I wrote an explicit one with a fair amount...