Everyday Canvas

April and Criticism

Prompt: Write a poem about Spring and April.


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I liken April to a young carefree girl
with an angelic grace
slight waist
eyes wide open
with sweetness and fragrance
of flowers and spices,
and in her itinerary,
a rippling creek,
vegetation, and rain

for in the stream of time
her silky green outfit
will take on
dazzling summer colors
in wavy red-hot patterns
and a mature scorching style

Such a downgrading gesture
to reinvent oneself!

Prompt: What was your most memorable piece of criticism, good or bad?

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If the critique will help me or is done by a knowledgeable person, I appreciate it greatly whether it is good or bad, but when the critique becomes a criticism with bad intentions, then I see red.

Case in point: This was many years ago. Right here in Wdc, a member wanted to get back at me for a reason, in which she was in the wrong, and she re-registered as a gray case to give a one star to a horror story I had just written, and she said something like, “Why do you write such a scary story? Can’t you write something soft and sweet?”

It wasn't the one star that got me but her comment. I have no words for such an action.