violet

Member since December 3, 2009

Member for 16 years, 6 months

workshop leaders member

40 Poems

86 Comments

6 Followers

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The door

Posted Nov 25, 2024 · 7 lines · 3 critiques

My feet are melded to the concrete
as though a hundred stoney fingers
are fused to the soles

and the only way to step forward
is by tearing hard enough
to leave skin behind.

They only let go when I walk away.

violet’s timeline

December 2024
02 Mon

Anniversary
15 years of membership
November 2024
27 Wed

Received a critique
on The door from @Lavender
"Hello, Violet, What a great title! It says it all! I hope you made it through, in spite of bearing the pain. Thank you! Lavender"
26 Tue

Received a critique
on The door from @Rula
"This has a real feeling of pain to it. Hope it's not all biographical. Your last line shows however the determination to move on. I hope this to be the first step for new beginnings. I like the brevity of this. You've a…"
25 Mon

Posted a poem
The door
"My feet are melded to the concrete"
Open thread 7 lines
April 2024
10 Wed

New follower
@mark
10 Wed

Received a critique
on (....) from @Obadiah Grey
"Loved this! its a single malt with a hint of banana. Obi."
09 Tue

New follower
@Candlewitch
09 Tue

Received a critique
on (....) from @Geezer
"like it was me that hadn't posted but three poems in the last ten years! I am most pleased to see and read your work again. I guess I must have missed a bit of it when I was hospitalized with pneumonia. Yeah, I have COP…"
09 Tue

Received a critique
on (....) from @Geezer
"to say the least. I almost get it; but that's okay, I'm sure that it wasn't written just for me. ~ Geezer. ."
09 Tue

Critiqued
"Wandering eyes " by @Edward nigma
"I love your use of words here. Visceral and well written. Thank you for sharing."
09 Tue

Posted a poem
(....)
"We don't say it"
Open thread 4 lines
January 2020
17 Fri

Received a critique
on Dylan who? from @Edna Sweetlove
"...drunken Welsh windbag. Seriously, I thought this was nicely written with a touch of awareness what a bucket or two of wine can do to your inhibitions and memory...and also it was interesting which is more than I can…"
17 Fri

Received a critique
on Dylan who? from @Obadiah Grey
"Thank God there is a lack of forethought into who we get "fluff brained and wobbly" with! An old uni fling perhaps? Obi..... I thought it was well written!"
17 Fri

Received a critique
on Underneath... from @Obadiah Grey
"Pared to perfection with a smidgeon of ambiguity. Loved it. Obi."
16 Thu

Posted a poem
Dylan who?
"He'd tell me about Dylan T"
Open thread 18 lines
December 2019
02 Mon

Anniversary
10 years of membership
December 2014
02 Tue

Anniversary
5 years of membership
June 2014
05 Thu

Critiqued
"With Words" by @IKnowNoBox
"Some situations just beg for words- and you give them. In neat quantity. It's like a whole week with a brand new woman/man: awkward, then not, hot, then comfortable. Thanks for that :) V"
05 Thu

Critiqued
"p r i t t i e " by @Esker
"I enjoyed the ajar feeling I get from this. It's open enough to let me see inside- closed enough to keep me out. A good balance, imo. I particularly like the strong opening lines and your all or nothing approach on punc…"
05 Thu

Critiqued
"Porte De Porc..." by @Geezer
"Given the content of this poem- I still found it fun to read. It's Vengeance at its finest. The only constructive advice I have is that you might want to change "it's" in L1 to 'its' (probably just a typo). Other than t…"
May 2014
23 Fri

Posted a poem
Underneath...
"I imagine a dense network of tunnels; "
Open thread 8 lines
April 2014
07 Mon

Posted a poem
Mousing
"."
Open thread 14 lines
November 2013
06 Wed

Critiqued
"The Gray Fedora" by @China Blue
"What a title. You speak of a 'thing'; a memory of it throughout the piece, which gives me a feeling as if reading a diary or something as such. Personal, yet neutral; from the perspective of an outsider looking in. I ap…"
October 2013
22 Tue

Critiqued
"Killing God (with rev with audio)" by @weirdelf
"Nice to hear this poem too."
19 Sat

Posted a poem
Ghosts
"Dark settles on the walls, the street lamp blinks light,"
Open thread 12 lines
April 2012
25 Wed

Posted a poem
Cancer party
"There was 7 in the packet when we started"
Open thread 17 lines
December 2011
23 Fri

New follower
@weirdelf
November 2011
05 Sat

Critiqued
"Of Grief" by @loved
"Completely with you on this. Thank you Loved, For the recommendation and this read"
August 2011
22 Mon

Posted a poem
The trouble with knowing
"I wonder what she's thinking "
Open thread 40 lines
20 Sat

New follower
@Blue_Halcyon
20 Sat

Critiqued
"Semele" by @Blue_Halcyon
"This is simply stunning.. It feels like the narrator is caught in a penumbra. There's a kind of calm to be found in giving up Beautiful work"
July 2011
17 Sun

Posted a poem
Echoes
"Brutally mellifluous words"
Open thread 19 lines
17 Sun

Posted a poem
A clear mind
"I'm just listening"
Open thread 16 lines
December 2010
02 Thu

Anniversary
One year of membership
January 2010
11 Mon

Posted a poem
Demon
"No siver-white feathers or radiant glow"
Open thread 10 lines
08 Fri

Posted a poem
Fear of the Dark
"I am paralyzed"
Open thread 26 lines
04 Mon

First critique offered
on "War!" by @chrisbyrne
December 2009
27 Sun

Most-discussed work
Angel Of Flesh

11 critiques to date.
03 Thu

First publication
untitled* (adult content)
02 Wed

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.

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Location: GBR

Recent Work

Demon

Posted: 11 January, 2010

Fear of the Dark

Posted: 8 January, 2010

Angel Of Flesh

Posted: 27 December, 2009

Seductress

Posted: 5 December, 2009

untitled* (adult content)

Posted: 3 December, 2009

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Workshops

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To serve poet.	(syllabus)	Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Plunge Pool	Started 2014-05-22	Concluded

15 years of membership

on The door from @Lavender

on The door from @Rula

on (....) from @Obadiah Grey

on (....) from @Geezer

on (....) from @Geezer

"Wandering eyes " by @Edward nigma

on Dylan who? from @Edna Sweetlove

on Dylan who? from @Obadiah Grey

on Underneath... from @Obadiah Grey

10 years of membership

5 years of membership

"With Words" by @IKnowNoBox

"p r i t t i e " by @Esker

"Porte De Porc..." by @Geezer

"The Gray Fedora" by @China Blue

"Killing God (with rev with audio)" by @weirdelf

"Of Grief" by @loved

"Semele" by @Blue_Halcyon

One year of membership

on "War!" by @chrisbyrne

Membership begins

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