Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
lil · 4214 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today's Writing Prompt: Encounters with an Ex or Naked Pictures
I love the ending - of course we bring a lot of our own experience to a poem. I kept seeing this candle. but of course you are talking about candles each illuminated, never crossed. Why would I imagine a braided candle on one wick? Maybe that's what I wish it would be. First a question: when you use the word "tongue" in the almost last stanza - had you used that word in an earlier stanza in an earlier draft? Just wondering. More on this in a bit. also, line six... "the way" ... "the way"...