A Writer In Flames

For the creative poetry group. words: flame, imprint, quiver, arrow, pursue, contrive, subjugate, ambrosial, and indulgent.

Trying to pursue a career in writing is tough,

There is always someone trying to take your spot,

To steal your thunder,

To put out your flame,

And the thought of losing the spotlight

Makes me quiver,

Quiver at the thought of another writer 

Being better than me,

An arrow used to pin point the type of writing 

I'm good at, or use to be good at,

To contrive my old writes into one

To come up with one final piece to be shipped off

I sign my name leaving one final imprint,

The theme.. indulgent parents

Something I truly know nothing about

But I force my pen to become subjugate,

I am the writer,

I control it all!

A few weeks later, a letter comes in the mail

It says.... 

"Congratulation your piece has been chosen for a mural."

Finally ambrosial,

My work's finally out there

For other people to see for years to come,

I guess I won't be a writer that crashes and burns

Author's Note

This was a harder challenge than I thought. It took me two days to come up with this.

Reviews

[freelancejouster]

i feel like you came up with an idea and stuck with it. which, is an admirable thing to do, but feels like you were also stuck in it, as if it weren't working and you tried to force it to. there's a stiffness. do you know what i mean?

regardless of this, i found it an excellent piece.

[Daytonight]

Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work!

[Brad Nugent]

Writing certainly is a struggle. And the imagery of flames is well suited to this theme. There is conflict in the process of writing. It comes from within - you write your ideas, your words, your heart and soul. But an audience of one does not make for a career writer! You have to write with an audience in mind, apparently, and that means editing and editing and editing - taking away even the words that you thought were clever or perfect. I haven't got to that point yet. Who would want to be a writer, huh?

[R J Askew]

I like the notion of crashing and burning of being put throught the mincer of failure and total rejection. Once we are on the other side and absolutely nothing matters and we don't care as we know we will never get anywhere and no one will ever read us THEN we are free to write properly. I like the thought of that last line. And the title. I love the title. I like the thought of the ash beyond the flames. Maybe our real poetry is in our essential ash.

[Tai Ryens]

I see how hard this was to write, and I personally think it turned out quite nicely! This may be true to writing, but it is true to other things as well! There will always be someone else that tries to steal your spot, douse your fire, you know. Anyways, amazingly done!

[amdc101]

Trying to pursue a career in writing is tough

The thing I love about this poem is that it is mainly show not tell. Full of wonderful medafores. But with this as your first line, who would know? I think in honor of your poem, the beginning should be a bit more impressive. :)

[BlindedMinded]

great write

[BlindedMinded]

:)

[Krystal Nicole]

Loved it! Great job!

[MYSELF]

Well i would say even if it would have taken a month it was worthwhile...

Thats so preety true about the lines and words of a writers thought that its surely acceptable...

Wonderful...

Regards...
MYLIFE