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End Of Year Review #1

How Can This Be?

Ravyne Hawke

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Promptly Written

6 min readDec 17, 2021

Photo by Anna Tukhfatullina Food Photographer/Stylist on Unsplash

Greetings PW writers and readers! The Pub is open. Come, grab a drink and a snack and settle yourselves in. I have a few requests to make among you, my friends.

When I opened these doors on October 1st, I had no idea how well people would respond to it. You have all helped to make this place productive and exciting. I cannot begin to thank you enough!

This will be a series of reviews over the next couple of weeks as we work toward the New Year and new exciting happenings here at PW.

In this review, I want to direct your attention to some of the work here that lingers below 100 claps. All of these works are amazing. I know this because I have read them and because they are amazing, I have generously given them 50 claps. I don’t necessarily want this to be about claps though. You can all clap as you see fit within your own clapping system. What this is REALLY about is that these works are NOT being read. Let’s change that! So please, as you visit these, read them and only after reading, clap as you feel inspired and if you have time, please leave them a comment. Today we will focus on POETRY. Let me know if you spot the same trend I’ve spotted in the comments. I will share my thoughts on this trend in the next review.

As you read each of these, please come back here and HIGHLIGHT them so that we know they are being read. Thank you!

The Works At or Below 100 claps

Upen Singh — Life of Leaf
Anthony David Vernon — With The Times
srstowers — Lucifer Falls, Burning
I am more than you see — Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go
Sourav Rana — A Few Words For Someone Special
Desiree M. Ortega — Insomnia’s Rhapsody
Teresa Grabs — Today I Will
NIDAA — Curiosity
NIDAA — The Limited And The Unlimited
srstowers — Battalions Of Sorrow On A Beautiful Day
NIDAA — The Masked Society
IMΛBӨПG FΛMIПЦ — The Gift of Friendship
Leese Wright — Welcome The Change
L Burton — Ghostwriter
Shagufta — Are You My Hope?
srstowers — Life’s Little Memories
Adriana Vazquez — Life’s Photo
Shagufta — My Life Is Not Dark (shamefully, even I missed this one)
Casey Lawrence — Burning The Ladder
Ross Lynn — Things Not To Do To A Man
Tas (they/them) — Floating Like Mist
Jared Griffin — The Autoerotic Scent of Blood
Jared Griffin — Just For Kings
Mihai Brinas — Sentenced For Execution
Mihai Brinas — Tenderness
Shagufta — Desolation
Tas (they/them) — Shout Until You Are Heard
srstowers — The Researcher’s Insistence
KiKi Walter — Ballad of the (Sensitive) Stalker
Joe Merkle — A Most Wondrous Life
tucker lux — Elegy For A Former Self
Ellen Andaya — Either A Writer Or A Wannabe
Charlie Cole — Pure Filth
Joanne Olivieri — Dark Linings
Teresa Grabs — Life’s Facade
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — Poem: Wreaths
Tas (they/them) — Inside These Four Walls
Amanda Wilson — Dark Goddess Who Shines Bright
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — Poem: Traffic Light Christmas
Joanne Olivieri — Last Call
Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards — Poem: Hard Candy
Mihai Brinas — Ballet Behind The Scenes
L Burton — Joyful Everything

PW WRITERS

review | promptly written

End Of Year Review #1

How Can This Be?

The Works At or Below 100 claps

PW WRITERS

Written by Ravyne Hawke