http://slow.writerscafe.org/Azalea The original writings of author Azalee Schmetterling en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776177013 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 A very short blurb of metaphor for when we realize that our denial is no longer valid. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/1028686/ The emotional cycle one can find themselves in from time to time. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/1017083/ This was a successful attempt at using dialogue in poetry. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426266/ This was just a spark that came during class one day. I had fun playing with the page as well. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426265/ This poem has some depth and may be a little vague. I appreciate any insight or suggestions to correct this. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426260/ This came out of an exercise we had done in class. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426259/ I had the ending of the poem first and worked backwards from there. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426257/ My only attempt at a sensual poem, unfortunately my twisted ideas show through anyway. Let me know what you think. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426254/ This was a sudden flow that just fell out of my head one day. I'm actually pretty proud of it. I've changed the positioning of it a little. I think the use of white space in this version is most effective. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426252/ This is kind of the final version after it's gone through some workshops. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426251/ I've reworked this a bit. It now has more of a structure and makes use of white space. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426250/ I found a website that offers prompts and this is what I came up with off the prompt... And now I have updated it. This piece has gone through a few workshops, so let me know what you think as a whole. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426249/ I fixed a couple of spots and took out a couple of unnecessary words and phrases at the suggestion of my professor. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426248/ This would be considered descriptive-meditative, I wrote this on a car trip after passing a cemetary. It also happened to be the birthday of someone I knew who is no longer here. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426247/ This was my final portfolio in my poetry seminar class. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/426244/ Something I started and am not sure where to go with it. A girl from a overbearingly religious background finds that she is pregnant. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/283616/ Deosil means: A clockwise motion, symbolic of positive, constructive energies. It is the Sun's apparent motion "around" the Earth in the Northern Hemisphere. Often used in Neopagan ritual to "produce" positive energies in the surroundi http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/243601/ After hundreds of years being locked up in a castle fast asleep she tells where she�s headed now. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/242740/ A brutal image for the end of the world... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/242738/ This is a metaphor for death using a mythology from ancient Greece. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/121451/ This was something I wrote for a contest. It's the first time I've written something humorous, or attempted to. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/66333/ This is written about a lover of mine from long ago and the finality of life http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Azalea/41033/