%%USERNAME%%
%%ACCWORDS%%
%%ONOFF%%
Est. %%EST%%
un:
%%REPLACE%%
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
|
Send Email
Send Merit Badge
Send Awardicon
Request Review: %%RRINFO%%
Comments: (optional)
X
Get Started
·
Need Help?
·
Login
·
Signup
Get Started
·
Need Help?
·
Login
·
Signup
Press '
enter
' or click the
to search all of Writing.Com.
Search where?
This Portfolio (sadilou)
Any Genre
---------------
Any Type
-------------
All of Writing.Com
Any Genre
---------------
Reading
Any Type
-------------
◄
March
►
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Archive
RSS
Login / Sign Up
Create Something
Read & Review
>
Community
Community Feed
Site News
The Hub
Activities
Contests
Newsletters
The Blog Board
The Plug Page
Puzzle Hub
Message Forums
General Discussion
Noticing Newbies
Weekly Goals
Sponsored Items
Auto-Reward Items
Read a Newbie
Read & Review
Newsletter Archives
Please Review
Public Reviews
Review Forums
Request a Review
Merit Badges
Awarded Items
Book of Trinkets
Testimonials
>
Browse By Type
About Our Item Types
Static Items
Poetry
Short Stories
Articles
Prose
Essays
Fiction
Non-fiction
Books
Blogs
Forums
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
>
Browse By Genre
Action/Adventure
Activity
Adult
Animal
Arts
Biographical
Business
Career
Children's
Comedy
Community
Computers
Contest
Contest Entry
Crime/Gangster
Cultural
Dark
Death
Detective
Drama
Educational
Emotional
Entertainment
Environment
Erotica
Experience
Family
Fanfiction
Fantasy
Fashion
Finance
Folklore
Food/Cooking
Foreign
Friendship
Genealogy
Ghost
Gothic
Health
History
Hobby/Craft
Holiday
Home/Garden
Horror/Scary
How-To/Advice
Inspirational
Internet/Web
LGBTQ+
Legal
Medical
Melodrama
Men's
Military
Music
Mystery
Mythology
Nature
News
Nonsense
Occult
Opinion
Paranormal
Parenting
Personal
Pets
Philosophy
Political
Psychology
Reference
Regional
Relationship
Religious
Research
Reviewing
Romance/Love
Satire
Sci-fi
Scientific
Self Help
Spiritual
Sports
Steampunk
Supernatural
Technology
Teen
Thriller/Suspense
Tragedy
Transportation
Travel
Tribute
War
Western
Women's
Writing
Writing.Com
Young Adult
Tue,
Mar 3, 2026
10:03pm
EST
Members: 674
Guests: 6,213
Total Online: 6,887
SPONSORED ITEMS
Sugar Squad
A boy who fears feet is trapped with four elf girls. Survival means enduring their chaos.
Writing.Com Images For Upgraded Members
Need a new look? Grab a Writing.Com image to spice up your posts and emails!
The Writer's Cramp
Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPS!
A CRY FOR A CHILD
A story of a friend's resurfaced childhood memory.
BY ONLINE AUTHORS
Breathing Room
In a world of canned air and bottled water, Tess and Rowan cling to each other to survive.
The Oasis
A woman finds what she doesn't know she's looking for
The Keys
Living in the Florida Keys
The Writer's Cramp
Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPS!
READ A NEWBIE
Risk Management Courses
Explore risk management courses after engineering, how to become a risk analyst
Tea is Free Therapy
For anyone who hasn't tried tea. It really does have health benefits.
Nature
Nature is amazing, and we tend to take it for granted.
Die Hard Dinner
Written in a stream of consciousness. Unedited and Raw.
BY ONLINE AUTHORS
The Writer's Cramp
Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPS!
OUT IN TOWN
girls all decked up!
Sig Shop Completed Images
Personalized Sigs made to order
Photographic Miscellany
A collection of various images for linking and inclusion in other items.
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/action/view/entry_id/1087186
Portfolio
Reviews
Biography
Notebook
Blog
Community
▼
Fans
Sliders
Details
Challenging Poetry
by
Rhyssa
Rated:
18+
·
Book
·
Contest Entry
· #
1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
Intro Rated:
E
Size: 346 Entries
Created: January 7th, 2013 at 2:34
pm
Modified: April 30th, 2025 at 7:19
pm
Paging:
Previous Item
·
Next Item
Location:
Poetic Nothings
Genres:
Contest Entry
,
Writing
,
Other
Access:
No Restrictions
◀ Previous
·
Entry List
·
Next ▶
#
1087186
added
April 13, 2025 at 5:08pm
Restrictions:
None
why I still talk to her
see the cactus--lonely,
misunderstood, beautiful--
as though to say
please, reach out to me.
touch the waxy satin
between my spines.
Prompt: April 13—Greenery
Comment
•
View 1 comment
© Copyright 2025 Rhyssa (UN: sadilou at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Rhyssa has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
◀ Previous
·
Entry List
·
Next ▶
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/action/view/entry_id/1087186
Generated in 0.08 seconds at 10:03pm on Mar 03, 2026 via server WEBX1.