Pressure builds, the dam ready to burst
again night falls and I await catastrophe
can’t stop tearing can’t stop gnawing
teeth sunk deep into flesh red and raw
the blood bittersweet I wipe from my chin
and leave red handprints smeared all over
Everything I touch becomes a dripping rose
but the rains will come and wash it away
all the traces of my crime erased
and I’ll be already gone into the night
running toward a new world
that waits to be bloodstained
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What’s the worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?
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15 responses to “Bloodstained”
Nothing like a good dark poem to start the day with.
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Pretty deep poem… it’s can be hard to navigate this world “properly” in a rose-eat-rose world. For me at least. So I can sympathize with the rose killer/eraser. In fact I’m sure I’ve been one some days, while just trying to survive, at least creatively. Maybe we all have been.
Anyway, beautifully written, I admire the style and am grateful to read it, and hear it. 🌹🙏🎶
As for the worst advice??? Oh that is a hard one. Tell us yours, please? :)) I am up for any worst advice, at this point ;)) 😜🤟😅
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I’m sure we’ve all killed a few roses on our way through the world! Thanks for reading, and for your thoughts (:
I’ve never been a fan of the “write what you know” advice that gets tossed around. I get what they’re trying to say, but at the same time if I only wrote characters that were like me, doing things I’ve done or know how to do… there’s just not a whole lot of stories to draw out of that well, I think. Besides, I don’t think limits should be placed on writing, period.
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Worst advice: stop writing long form. (I didn’t take the “advice” (meaning Opinion)… )
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What a strange thing to tell a writer… I’m glad you didn’t listen to them!
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Right?!
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Now that’s a crimson shade of bad. 🙂
I keep my writing matters under wrap. So advice is far from me.
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Fair enough! Cheers (:
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The worst writing advice I ever got was to use synonyms for the word “said”.
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Ooh that’s a good one. It can get so weird to try and find a new synonym for every line! haha
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The worst writing advice I’ve ever gotten, was “Write what’s popular.” If you get famous doing that, the work you really enjoy doing means nothing because the thing you’ll always be known for was the thing you compromised on.
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Ahhh yeah that’s a good one. The greatest stories are always the ones that the author kept hearing would never be popular! Never let go of a golden thread once you’ve begun to spin it. (:
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Thanks! I needed that encouragement. Just about everything I write I hear that from people. God Bless!
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In my (limited) opinion, no one knows what’s good until they see it (; Besides, if all anyone ever wrote was what’s been successful in the past, then nothing new would ever be written! Cheers (:
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Thank you! I’m doing my best.
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