So, yesterday I had to read out loud one of the poems I wrote. It was a somewhat, well, a kind of erotic poem. So it was a little sensual. We aren't talking kinky here or anything! I was going for sexy but tasteful, more suggestive if anything. Anyway, I had to read this poem to the whole class! I'm not even very GOOD at writing poetry, I'm move of a prose writer really, but I HAVE to take this class to get a creative writing degree. I wrote an erotic... well, sensual... well, suggestive poem just to see if I COULD. I REALLY wasn't thinking ahead to the fact that I have to read all of the poems I write. So, yeah, yesterday was interesting! Not only did I have to try my very best to read the poem slowly, since I talk a lot faster when I get nervous, but I also had to try NOT to blush while reading it. I did pretty well, until the end. I finished the poem, and the FIRST person to speak was the guy I sit next to in class. He announces, "Well, that poem made me horny." Yeah! I wasn't sure how to respond to that! I blinked a couple of times and then said in a dry, uninterested voice, "Well, mission accomplished."
Unknown "FireFly" Feisty - 16 years, 20 days ago

I must admit something. Not all writers are poets. I know this because I know I can write a decent short story, but I can't seem to write a great poem to save my life. Now, you have to remember that good poetry is not that emotional, angsty crap we all wrote when we were teenagers. That, my friends and neighbors, isn't good poetry. I'm talking about focused, clear images, not over written, but tight and to the point. Forget ambiguity please. Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it's good! It just means you are emperor's-new-clothing it and that just isn't playing fair. Do we look that naive?

So, yeah, poetry, harder than I thought! Give me a good piece of prose any day. Poetry is for the birds!
Unknown "FireFly" Feisty - 16 years, 1 month, 6 days ago

So I went hiking today with my friend Clint. Clint grew up down here and knew a few of the more interesting places to run around. He told me about this place called Fat Man's Squeeze. It's a break in a cliff-face that can act like a shortcut on the trail. He said it was tight, but I had NO idea! At it's widest it's only a foot wide, and you have to walk it sideways and climb up rocks to get to the top. And I did it! And it was awesome!
Unknown "FireFly" Feisty - 16 years, 1 month, 21 days ago