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.

[Fire Tulip]

Wow! I really enjoyed this! Good things come to people that wait!:)

[Becky C Strukamp]

Excellent work.

[Audrey Howitt]

Congrats on great job--I still haven't tried one of those challenges---

[Cherrie Palmer]

Those word challenges are crazy fun you never know what world the writer will create and no two see the words in the same light, loved the poem you burnt up the page with this one.

[blue blue blue.]

If you keep writing like this, you definitely won't crash and burn.

[Black]

it is well thought about
though i miss a little emotion,
further it is beautifull,!

[Blue Moon Ice Cream]

Interesting way to describe writing. It seems like you could easily rework this to fit sports--"there is always someone trying to take your spot, to steal your thunder, to put out your flame."

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

Oh, Dear Ta'Shandra...you won't soon crash and burn. Wonderful writing. I loved every word.

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

You've come through the challenge with flying colours I must say, love it :)

[Joiedevivre]

Congratulations Ta'shandra, you deserve it )) Very nicely celebrated too, up here in this lovely write!