(I just needed to write. I am not a fiction writer, but sometimes prompts just speak to us) The first time they met was in a New York City taxi. Both had snuggled on a plane from Doha and both wanted to continue to snuggle in the back seat. He grabbed her around her shoulders and she buried her head...

#2 A bronze arch etches its way across shadow stubble into a pocketed petal that you refused to shave. Outside the window dawn is breaking just below the ruffle cross-stitched curtain and I see your gray eye in hollowed cumulus clouds. Trying to force myself to write even if it is just ok. Miss you ...

Fellow Wordtrippers, I have been dreaming about what type of poetry would be the topic of the first book that I will attempt to publish. It has finally come to me and it combines many of my passions. Below is my description: Current events are happening all around us and sometimes we are not informe...

Word List Public Esteem Tea boiled hair descends down her samovar back her eyes sting from tear stained glass light. Yesterday, this evening starlet imagined her vodka memoir as she counted the number of times she stirred the olive around in the pastel glass. Her lyric life slid beers down the maple...

Thank you Mlou. To me being anti-poetry is alien so I thought it would be appropriate for this challenge. I sat down with my best friend by the bell tower today and we read poetry to calm down. Our professor thought it was hilarious we used poetry to calm down.
I am excellent, how are you?

Four months later: While in New York I got to read an original poem at the UN Global Launch for the International Year of Youth. There is a recording floating around online. I started my Junior year here in Bham and I am staying super busy but hoping to add some of my new work here at Wordtrip. I ne...

My playful try at number three. Anti-Poetry I’ve always wanted to have a way with words similar to the intercourse between nerds. Where looks are set aside and true love resides. I admit my first crush was Ezra Pound unfortunately, as demonstrated above, I can’t say anything that would be deemed pro...

May 09, 2009 was the exact date that I last posted to wordtrip and since then a lot has taken place in my life. I am still an English major at BSC and will be a junior, but this past year was awarded a pretty nice creative writing scholarship for being a "renegade poet." I do too much on campus, but...

Hey Paul! Well I am not going to tell you if you were right or wrong because each reader has a different interpretation of what he reads. I am glad you enjoyed the poem though. Thanks for helping me with the spelling, I just realized that I have been spelling Saran Wrap wrong my whole life. And on t...

Well I know everybody has a life and not many people are here on WT, but I would really appreciate it if some more people looked at this poem. Delaney I thank you again so very much for responding!

Thanks Delaney! I really do appreciate the feedback. I tend to get that I am over descriptive at times, which I find funny because it is similar to my personality. I just realized that I should have probably provided a little more context surrounding the poem. The original assignment was to use a wo...

Hey Everybody! I wrote this poem for my poetry portfolio this past semester in my Creative Writing class. I was supposed to focus on lineation and imagery. I am wondering what you all think. I did this poem last minute and need some feedback to determine where I could take it from here. My Environme...

I call it a burning bush of a bar because it is an allusion to the biblical burning bush. I wanted to create the contrast of a bar as a religious setting. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's what I was trying to create. Their brands of Sharpie refers to the permanent markings on the teenage...

Was a challenge now is something I want to work with and make better. My First Bar Experience as a College Student A rumbling engine goes down the thread path of blank stares as visitors approach. An Open sign flickers against the backdrop of a middle of nowhere Alabama trail that ends with the D r ...

My roommate pack.

The title explains it all. My First Bar Experience as a College Student A rumbling engine goes down the thread path of blank stares as visitors approach. An Open sign flickers against the backdrop of a middle of nowhere Alabama trail that ends with the D r o p Zone. Only it’s a little burning bush o...

And yet again I have returned and quite a bit of time has gone by. Let me see last time I posted was 7 months ago and I am done with classes next week! Agh! It's nuts. This semester was academic hell, but I got lucky first semester and ended up in two English classes. Currently I am an English and R...

Hey Elle, I guess my first question would be do you have any topic constraint? Or can it be absolutely any of these things, because if so I would recommend go with what you are comfortable with. All throughout elementary school and middle school I would enter these similar contests, but would be so ...

It is so nice to hear from y'all. My mom came into town today for Parent Weekend. College is quite a journey. I am keeping myself busy and a member of the Poetry Circle, which is a ton of fun. I have a poetry slam coming up soon in our coffee shop, it should be fun. And I will post some of my writing.

My opinion is I just read an entire chapter of How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household in Hebrew Bible class on when sex should be avoided and got way too much detail on the process of a woman's need to cleanse herself after her period and all the stuff in between. I had to instigate class discuss...

Wow. I have not been here in quite some time. April was the last time I posted something. I am now a college student. I am participating in 8 clubs on campus and now a writer for arts and entertainment for the school paper. Just finished my first article on a school band. I got an A on my first coll...

Little dancer
I see you no longer
A pink blur
Reality fades

We all have phases as writers. That is cool though that you have found a new style of writing to suit your needs.

Chapter 18 I am now legally an adult! Wish I could say that without a hint of sarcasm in my voice. I mean now doubt I like being 18 and knowing that I can vote in the presidential election, but along with 18 means that I will be moving out soon and starting my life, without my parents. Most teens de...

I took this off for personal reasons.